How artist Petr Pavlensky uses his body and the Russian legal system as canvases.

What it’s like to be struck by lightning.

On equating beauty with self-worth.

How to tell a genderqueer story.

Life with chronic migraines.

President Lincoln worked very hard all his life. After he died, his corpse kept a gruelling travel schedule, too.

Why did a man travel 200 miles to die in a national park?

On disability, adolescence and friendship after a paralyzing accident.

On the profound power of the placebo.

The next big thing in the death business.

Intended for cremation, 244 bodies are instead harvested for organs and tissue. The story of the families of the dead, the men who profited off the scheme, and the unwitting recipients of black market body parts.

A physiological theory of mental illness.

The murky ethics of crowdsourcing an organ donation.

Before you ever feel it.

Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.

Before I learned about beauty, I delighted in my body. I sensed a deep well at my center, a kind of umbilical cord that linked me to a roiling infinity of knowledge and pathos that underlay the trivia of our daily lives.

A lifelong runner is hit with a mysterious physical breakdown and forced to begin contemplating the end.

A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?

The story of a Pacific Palisades con man named Jeffrey Lash.

One man’s quest to have a healthy leg amputated.

When authorities fail families, Lissa Yellowbird-Chase steps in.

In an excerpt from her book, the late Northern Irish journalist joined a search for a missing youth.

Beyond the fact that he lacked a pulse, little is known about the man found on an Adelaide beach in 1948.

On Amaris Tyynismaa, the 14-year-old star runner who has Tourette’s.

An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.