A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.

On the death of a brother.

The story of Christopher Knight, who lived in the Maine woods for 27 years with virtually no human contact.

The rise and fall of Synanon, an addiction-recovery cult in California, and its charismatic leader, a one-time homeless wino named Chuck Dederich who taught his followers to berate each other for therapy.

On Felix Baumgartner and his 24-mile jump.

One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.

Will LaFever never felt right in the world. So he took to the Utah desert, barely making it out alive.

“Five years, four judges, six lawyers, $400,000 in attorney and expert fees and costs, a child yanked back and forth, [and] petty arguing.” Chronicling the slow end of one American marriage.

“Ebert: Sometimes we do really dislike each other.

Siskel: And sometimes we don’t.”

An oral history of the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot.

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

“I never attacked anyone weak. Only bullies, secure in their courts, bureacracies, fifedoms.”

“At the gym, he’s not Garrett Holeve, the guy with Down syndrome. He’s G-Money, an up-and-coming fighter with big ambitions.”

The history and meaning of taxidermy in American museums.

The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.

How a 100-mile footrace saved a beleaguered town.

In 1913, Joe Knowles became a media sensation after fleeing into the Maine woods wearing nothing but a jockstrap. Two months and one bear-clubbing incident later, the “Nature Man” returned to civilization as a hero. But was it all hoax?

How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.

Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.

Life as a human cannonball.

An interview with the late writer.

Living with – and dying because of – hyperacusis, a condition that grossly intensifies hearing.

The author tells the story of his kidnapping by militants in Syria.

An asshole learns to sing.

The story of Tim Danielson, one of America’s top high school distance runners, who went on to murder his ex-wife.