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.

From Kenya to Amsterdam to New Jersey, an industry collapses in a matter of weeks.

Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?

"I’m not familiar with books on style. My role in the revival of Strunk’s book was a fluke—just something I took on because I was not doing anything else at the time. It cost me a year out of my life, so little did I know about grammar."

Following the hunters and poachers, servers and saviors of the little-known pangolin—a scaly, endangered creature sold by the thousands on the black market.

Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.

How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.

How a tattooed video store clerk with a history of drinking and drug use ended up at an Islamic self-help class leading to the birth of ISIS.

He was a shining star of a tight-knit group of rising Black male models in London. Why did he die at the hands of another model?

Peter Zumthor, who recently won the Pritzker Prize after a career of few buildings and mostly modest-in-size projects, on the “architecture of actually making things”

A profile of Martha Nussbaum, whose ideas illuminate the often ignored elements of human life—aging, inequality, and emotion.

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.

The Branch Davidians today, 20 years after the deadly standoff.

A Southland Tales fanboy goes down the rabbit hole with the movie’s director.

Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.

On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.

Five years after his death, friends, family, and the athletes he covered reflect on the legendary ‘SportsCenter’ anchor and ESPN icon.

A visit to Glenn Greenwald’s house in Rio.

Why one man made it his mission to kill 60 known sex offenders.