An emerging school of therapy says that scripting your dreams while awake could eliminate the worst ones. Not everyone thinks that’s healthy.

Alex Haley interviews the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s number two - Malcolm X - in a Harlem restaurant.

Fifty-four days after his group’s Everest climb turned tragic, Krakauer first told the story of what had gone wrong.

Mr. Lindall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand.

The author joins his father’s work crew, gutting out foreclosed houses in Florida and interviewing their former residents.

On public radio and the emerging genre of shows inspired by This American Life.

In Detroit, the aftermath of a reality-TV SWAT raid that killed a sleeping seven-year-old.

A profile of Yao Ming published during his second season in the NBA.

A profile of video game artist Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Bros.

A profile of Esquire features writer Chris Jones. Plus: the Jones archive on Longform.org.

A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.

SNL in its grim twentieth season through the lens of first (and only) year cast-member Janeane Garofalo.

Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.

Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?

A profile of the congressman turned morning show host, who spends his free time working on a musical about Donald Trump.

On the downfall of Deutsche Bank.

In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.

How the Robin Hood of gamblers got ensnared in a money laundering scheme led by former football players.

A young Brazilian couple from “an impoverished northeastern city that’s been described as ground zero of the Zika epidemic” struggle to care for their daughter.

Did a forgotten black gumshoe inspire the famous works of both Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett?

Gwen Wright was raised in dozens of foster homes. A new housing experiment could spare her son the same fate.

Stephen Reed was “mayor for life” in Harrisburg, PA. Now he’s going to trial on 114 counts of bribery, theft, and fraud.

Hanging out with a new celebrity class: the teen kings and queens of social media.

What happens to the people who film famous incidents of police violence.