Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

How the Choose Your Own Adventure series began.

On the history of modern food.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.

Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.

A jailhouse interview with Vladimir Putin’s rival at the very end of his decade behind bars.

We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

“No one works better out of anguish at all; that’s an incredible literary conceit.”

On the death of NBA star Reggie Lewis.

But not for want of programmers trying.

A profile of author William T. Vollmann.

The story of heiress Huguette Clark, who spent her life avoiding people and collecting dolls.

During her brief tenure as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin was a genuinely effective, bipartisan legislator. What went wrong?

The story of a Marine who saved innumerable lives, then got fired.

Researchers do look into near-death experiences, seeking a verified case of what they call “apparently non-physical veridical perception.”

Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.

On the death of a high school basketball star in New York City.

The story of a bizarre—and bizarrely effective—smear campaign.

The reclusive director comes out of his shell at 73.

One of the most accomplished Himalayan guides works at an outdoor retailer in Lower Manhattan.

Searching for answers after unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies.

A profile of Lorena Bobbitt.

Does the ubiquitous dance troupe really present five thousand years of civilization reborn?

The history of a sundown town.

Inside a literary Ponzi scheme.