Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

“Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.”

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.

On working in an artists’ colony.

A sport in flux.

In the slums adjacent to Mumbai’s airport.

The author on her childhood in Wingham, Ontario.

What caused the worst shipping disaster in maritime history?

A Q&A:

My mother was called to school frequently because I was yelling out things in class, quips in class, and because I would hand in compositions that they thought were in poor taste, or too sexual. Many, many times she was called to school.

Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic.

A Kenyan runner loses himself in Alaska.

Life on an oil rig in the Arctic.

Experiments in making others feel good.

Life in Nucla, Colorado.

Skiing in the shadow of Mount Everest.

A story of America in three scams.

Professional daredevils in love.

Adventures in bartending.

Being injured in the NFL.

The trade in fake olive oil.

Was justice served in Steubenville?

The most powerful man in publishing, unfiltered.