He had the mind of a scholar, but he always insisted he didn’t want to be one.

A Holocaust detective story: could a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina really be Buchenwald artifact made of human remains?

The fever-dream life and death of Chinese poet Gu Cheng.

How a burst blood vessel transformed the mind of a deliberate, controlled chiropractor into that of an utterly unfiltered, massively prolific artist.

Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of Deadwood, it has given his work a new sense of urgency.

The story of an aviator-adventurer draws a journalist into a reflection on his own family’s history of flight.

The author of The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, interviewed by his editor, Andy Ward, about storytelling, literary heroes, and why the book took him 10 years to write.

A profile of Zack Snyder, director of Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, and the upcoming Superman series.

Once pigeonholed as “the hottest blonde ever,” the star of Birds of Prey has become one of Hollywood’s most promising producers.

Doping is a problem for equine sports, too.

Joe Arpaio is tough on prisoners and undocumented immigrants. What about crime?

On Westmont College, a “feeder school” to the upper ranks of the Christian conservative movement.

With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.

On the wandering career and sweet baritone voice of Art Laboe, the DJ behind the phrase “oldies but goodies.”

The inside story of how the city, broke and bleak and nearing the edge, saved itself.

Meet Faygele ben Miriam, the radical activist “beyond the leading edge” of the same-sex marriage fight.

The author recalls his time as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The enduring career of the megastar no one really knows.

How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all down-and-out single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.

Trolls are frustrating, cruel and frightening creatures of the internet deep. But something surprising happens when one writer tries to deal with the worst of hers: He turns out to have a conscience.

At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.

"Opium does not deprive you of your senses. It does not make a madman of you. But drink does. See? Who ever heard of a man committing murder when full of hop. Get him full of whiskey and he might kill his father."

A journey into New York’s turn-of-the-century opium dens to find out who gets hooked and why.

Margit Wennmachers is Andreessen Horowitz’s secret weapon.

And it is wild.