After two years of filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole returns to his childhood home in Ireland.

Plus: 50 years later, Gay Talese remembers the late Peter O'Toole.

An investigation into the family of the accused Boston Marathon bombers.

A profile of Pope Francis.

What the CIA really knew about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in 2007.

Adventures in acedia, from Aquinas to Bartleby.

“How much money do you make? And do you shave your pubic hair?”

New York’s Pastor Parker and his growing string of Liberty Churches, each of which will “adopt the culture of its neighborhood.”

“When I was fourteen, I had a relationship with my eighth grade history teacher. People called me a victim. They called him a villain. But it’s more complicated than that.”

In defense of snark.

A profile of Avishek Sengupta, who drowned at the Walk the Plank obstacle during an endurance race last year.

In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”

The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.

On Silvio Berlusconi’s hedonism.

Berlusconi is Italy’s waning Hugh Hefner, alternately reviled and admired for his loyalty to his own appetites—except that he’s supposed to be running the country.

Adventures as a mortuary assistant.

On faith and football.

An investigation into how Hollywood abuses animals.

Eleven years ago, three-year-old Audrey Santo fell into a pool. She nearly drowned. Much of her brain died. She cannot speak, can only barely move. And every Wednesday, pilgrims show up at her family’s house, ready for a miracle.

INTERVIEWER: I imagine that people try to set you up as some sort of guru, whether political or metaphysical.

LESSING: I think people are always looking for gurus. It’s the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It’s quite terrifying.

A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.

A recent history of ‘bupe’ Suboxone film, which is described as a miracle cure for opiate addiction but flows freely from for-profit clinics to dealers and inmates, sometimes melted into the pages of smuggled Bibles.

“And the Holocaust trumps art every time.”

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

A pair of undercover journalists, a boatload of refugees, 200 miles of ocean and a journey that has claimed more than a thousand lives.

An essay on those who don’t get caught by health care’s so-called safety net.