A profoundly neglected 6-year-old gets a new home.

Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando.

At home, Arkansas’s favorite son can do no wrong.

On Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, screenwriters.

Is a Marine responsible for a series of violent attacks against women?

How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.

The Syrian civil war crosses into Lebanon.

Searching for a mysterious whirpool on an obscure map.

The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.

On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.

The rock critic confronts his favorite musician.

A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.

A reckless billion-dollar industry that occasionally kills.

Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.

How “Do What You Love” devalues actual work.

A small Texas town suddenly finds it’s the home of a possible cult.

Memories of the old neighborhood, before everything changed.

A profile of Werner Herzog.

The case against agriculture.

A year with an autistic 20-year-old.

A profile of Bob Fishman, the impresario of CBS’s NFL production crew.

The tiny, insular Tehran rap scene.

For a half-century fires have burned under Centralia, PA.

On the rise of DIY genetic engineering.

Perpetually reinvented through experimental chemistry, manufactured in Asian mills, packaged in foil with names like White Slut Concentrated and Charley Sheene for use as “hookah cleaner,” distributed in college town head shops, snorted and injected by hardened addicts and high school thrill seekers alike, bath salts may be the strangest and most volatile American drug craze since crack. And they’re (quasi) legal.