Revisiting the street corner where Franz Ferdinand was shot.

On the FBI's failed negotiations with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in Waco.

Previously: Malcolm Gladwell on the Longform Podcast.

On children accused of sorcery in Congo.

On (not) getting by in the gig economy.

On Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, who died this week.

“Telling who I am before I forget.”

On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.

A son interviews his mother about language and love in the South.

A story of boom and bust.

Notes from a month-long voyage on a massive container ship.

Searching for the mysterious tree kangaroo in one of the most remote places on Earth.

An essay on the service economy.

“There was this brief moment when people who wrote blogs also cared about so-called literary fiction. Now it seems they’ve moved on. My doctor doesn’t give a fuck.”

Searching for Puddles the Clown, whose cover of Lorde’s “Royals” made him an Internet star.

A father’s undiagnosed dementia reveals a family’s vulnerability.

The battle for Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Cristo Redentor statue.

A Chicago housing project resident reports intruders breaking into her apartment through a medicine cabinet. Days later, she’s found dead.

An investigation into the practice of putting teenagers in solitary confinement.

Jane Neubauer was just out of basic training when a secretive military unit recruited her for an undercover mission. She and the Air Force disagree about what happened next.

Memories of the old neighborhood, before everything changed.

“Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric—something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques.”

The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.

The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.

More than 50 years after Nelson Rockefeller's son went missing following a boat accident in New Guinea, the true story emerges. He made it to shore, but didn't make it much farther.

Excerpted from </em>Savage Harvest</a>.</p>

PLAYBOY: Is it possible you set a lower value on privacy than most people do?

DENTON: I don't think people give a fuck, actually.