Ira Tobolowsky, a prominent lawyer, was burned alive in his North Dallas garage. A strong suspect quickly emerged. So why can’t the cops solve the case?

After school shootings, a teenager challenges the gun culture in her conservative Wyoming town.

After two months in the hospital, a mother finally got to take her premature baby home. Then she spent five years trying to convince him to eat.

An “unknown energy source” has been blamed for debilitating symptoms suffered by Americans posted in Cuba. The real cause may be more surprising.

Jared Lorenzen was a star quarterback in college. He won a Super Bowl. And just like the author, he has spent his entire life fighting, and losing, a battle with his weight.

For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?

An 11-month investigation ends with a booster, now in prison for a Ponzi scheme, going public with details of how he spent millions on college athletes from 2002 to 2010.

[Shapiro] said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play including bounties for injuring opposing players, travel and, on one occasion, an abortion.

A profile of Sophia Amoruso, the 30-year-old CEO of Nasty Gal and author of #GIRLBOSS.

“What kind of a person looks upon the world’s largest land animal—a beast that mourns its dead and lives to retirement age and can distinguish the voice of its enemies—and instead of saying ‘Wow!’ says something like ‘Where’s my gun?’”

A interview with David Mitchell, author of the recent The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas, on stretching a fictional universe across multiple novels and centuries of real history.

The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.

The story of the 1969 murder spree by Charles Manson and “Family” as told by those close to the case.

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

The rise of the long-haul trucker/serial killer, as excerpted from Ginger Strand’s book Killer on the Road.

The untold story of the world’s most infamous sex tape, and how the Internet spread it faster than anyone expected.

Inside the twisted, half-conscious world of Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete.

Inside the minds of two people, one with the world’s best memory and one with the world’s worst.

The sordid, petty world of “gossip item” sources for the New York Post and The Daily News, and what happens when they go bad.

On the outsized pleasures of the very small.

At age 22, the author went undercover at his old high school. An excerpt of the book that became the film.

A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.

Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner—and the police punished him for it.

On Silicon Valley's newfound interest in the weed business.

Previously: Mat Honan on the Longform Podcast.

The idea was to shoot a Neiman Marcus fur catalog in the Andes mountains, not get stranded on them.

Gerry Pickens took a paycut to join the police department in tiny, overwhelmingly white Orting, Washington. Fired less than a year later, he’s now suing the town for enough to break it.