Gang-bang buffet tables, deeply earnest 'Letters to the Editor,' ghost-writing Kierkegaard references into model bios in Barely Legal, and how a half-decade of reviewing porn eroded the thin line between the author's alter egos and self.

On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.

Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.

When Michael Deng joined an Asian-American frat, he was searching for belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead.

A swanky 12-story condo in Sarasota nearly collapsed, was rendered unlivable for years, and no one was to blame.

Forty-eight years after being attacked, a St. Petersburg, Florida woman searches for a way to cope.

He was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then Lane Davis stabbed his father to death.

Blake Bailey was my favorite teacher. Years later, he forced himself on me. Why did I seek his approval for so long?

James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.

How a Chinese national, with the help of a suspected spy, disappeared with laptops and hard drives that may have contained sensitive information from the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.

Tech investors gave Seth Bannon, co-founder of the seemingly surging startup Amicus, over four million dollars, despite knowing almost nothing about him.

In the ring, Hector “Macho” Camacho was a champ. Out of it, he was a coke-fueled, womanizing wild man, until the appetites that consumed him cost him his life.

Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive—and perhaps of all time—back away from his art to open a construction business?

Previously: Jason Fagone on the Longform Podcast.

An entrepreneurial primer from the founder of 37Signals. “So here’s a great way to practice making money: Buy and sell the same thing over and over on Craigslist or eBay. Seriously.”

Rogue cops in the LAPD Rampart division’s anti-gang CRASH unit (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) were involved in everything from drug smuggling and bank robberies to, allegedly, the murder of Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace.

How one of the most maligned cast members in SNL history ended up a talking head on Fox News.

In 1979, a Pulitzer was given to “an unnamed photographer of United Press International” who documented a mass execution in Iran.

His name is Jahangir Razmi – and, nearly three decades later, he wants the credit.

On the border of Utah and Arizona, Mormon fundamentalists have long lived according to their own rules. When a former sect member and his family moved to the town where he’d grown up, they expected a homecoming. What they got was a war.

The promises and pitfalls of self-tracking devices and apps.

Founded in 1974, the Raëlian Movement teaches that life on Earth was scientifically created by a species of extraterrestrials. Raëlians claim to have cloned the first human being and extol sensuality and pleasure as a path to peace.

An excerpt from Night of the Gun, the memoir by New York Times media critic David Carr about his years as a junkie in late-‘80s Minneapolis.

A visit to the American base in Antarctica, an “open-air museum of prefabricated regret.”

A hundred years ago, in the midst of an American food crisis, two spies who had once sworn to kill each other came together with a plan to feed America: hippo meat.