An interview with the author, who died Monday.

The 1826 kidnapping – and murder – that begat America’s obsession with Masons.

Traditions, feuds, and controversies in British pest control.

A woo-hoo heard around the world.

To the KGB and back.

At home with the beloved writer and illustrator.

On the world’s (then) largest online community.

Skiing and partying at the sport’s most dangerous race.

Retracing the writer’s life nearly 60 years after her death.

On the global money laundering conspiracy Liberty Reserve.

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.

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”

A profile of the reclusive billionaire who orchestrated a collectible toy craze.

The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture—and his entire life. Why?

The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

The story of an 86-year-old Norwegian man who tired to circumnavigate the globe, solo, in an engineless sailboat he built himself.

A reporter recounts her weekend as an undercover Juggalette.

The life history of an unassuming Sudanese man, Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has spent the last nine years in Guantánamo Bay prison.

On the front lines of a dating culture dominated by right and left swipes.

The ups and downs of being an accidental viral sensation.

On a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the body-building culture of Venice Beach in the 1970s.