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.

How moonlight drives life in the ocean.

Sixty journalists cover an ordinary week in an epidemic.

The militarization of local politics in South Africa.

Wolf-trapping school in Alaska.

In 2009, three followers of an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker named James Arthur Ray died in an Arizona sweat lodge. Now, after serving two years in prison for negligent homicide, Ray is trying to get back on the self-help circuit.

In 1916, a pair of 29-year-old women, bored with their lives in Upstate New York, took teaching jobs in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains. This is the story of what they found.

A murder case in Los Angeles, cold since the late ’80s, heats up thanks to breakthroughs in forensic science and leads detectives to “one of the unlikeliest murder suspects in the city’s history.”

In 2005, the prisoner who had set the U.S. penal system record for years in solitary confinement was moved to what’s called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies”—a jail in Colorado built just for him.