The writer reconnects with an old acquaintance who ten years earlier committed one of the most notorious crimes in New York history.

The social rituals of the pansexual, bi-queer, metroflexible New York teen.

The story of Southern Flight 242.

The wealthy widow of an East Bay newspaper baron, her cowboy fantasy man, and the drowning nobody could solve.

An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

A first-hand account of San Francisco in the hours and days after the devastating 1906 earthquake.

Inside the empire of Botox.

How to create a floating city.

Bringing a serial killer to justice reveals the country’s other sources of death and suffering.

How an economic war has pushed millions to the brink of starvation.

The bizarre story of what happened when Chinese crypto millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent.

A Buenos Aires hacker haven produced some of Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it suddenly disappeared.

The many lives of Josh Tillman, who on the way to releasing one of the year’s best albums was “a defiant child of God, a broke dishwasher, a successful drummer, a Dionysian shaman, a failed poet, a drug-hoovering spiritualist, and a gleeful prankster.”

On gray.

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

A profile of the founding editor of Radar and current editor of The Fix, penned by a former employee.

On peaches.

“There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them—but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.”

Pinch-hitting for an ailing Ted Kennedy, the then-candidate honors the Kennedy’s life of service and implores graduates to wed their lives to others:

Ted Kennedy often tells a story about the fifth anniversary celebration of the Peace Corps. He was there, and he asked one of the young Americans why he had chosen to volunteer. And the man replied, ‘Because it was the first time someone asked me to do something for my country.’ I don’t know how many of you have been asked that question, but after today, you have no excuses.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

“In fact, in private conversations, Obama rarely mentions Trump at all. Those who’ve visited the office he’s leased from the World Wildlife Fund in Washington’s West End say he’s eager to talk for hours about the world’s ills. When informed about the latest presidential tweetstorms aimed at him, he chuckles and changes the subject. One friend of Obama’s recalled that after a 45-minute meeting that avoided the subject of Trump entirely, the pair ducked into an aide’s office and saw on television that the president was claiming to have been absolved in the Russia inquiry. Obama’s eyes flicked toward the chyron and his face took on a decidedly bemused aspect for a beat before he turned back to their conversation as if nothing had happened.”

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.