Murky origins. Feuding chefs. How the lobster roll went national.

On the trail with the convicted felon and would-be Mini Trump.

The two poets correspond about basketball, life, and living.

A months-long interview with the singer-songwriter.

Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.

A voyage to North Sentinel island, home to one of the last entirely isolated populations on Earth.

What the journey of swifts, who spend all their time in the sky, tell us about the future.

“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.”

How Tim Durham funded a libertine lifestyle—dozens of luxury cars, Playboy-themed parties, a plethora of failed businesses—on the backs of unwitting Ohioans, many of them Amish.

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.

A personal reconstruction.

On America’s interstates, brazen bands of thieves steal 18-wheelers filled with computers, cell phones, even toilet paper. And select law enforcement teams are tasked with tracking them down.

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

On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.

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.

The juvenile ward on Rikers Island is a world of constant violence fueled by gangs and, allegedly, encouraged and overseen by the guards.

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

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

How to create a floating city.