On the psychology of a rescue worker after years of responding to disaster.

Mattathias Rath made a fortune selling cure-all vitamins in Europe before moving his business to South Africa, where he launched a massive campaign against retroviral AIDS medications and in favor of his own vitamin cocktails. When scientists, AIDS non-profits, and even Medecins San Frontieres objected, he sued.

The writer and his girlfriend move to the Dominican Republic, joining the rapidly expanding community of expats who claim to have found paradise. They promptly get robbed at gunpoint. To cope, he investigates the country.

But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn't I consulted?

How Internet porn has altered the ways we think about, and engage in, sex.

On how 21st century culture shifts killed the nerd and what lies ahead.

Arnold Weiss escaped Germany as a kid in 1938, leaving his family behind. He returned seven years later, now a U.S. intelligence officer tasked with tracking down fugitive Nazis. The ultimate revenge story.

A reporter heads to Istanbul, where Iverson is playing minor league hoops in a 3,200-seat arena and hanging out at T.G.I. Friday’s.

Memories of the expat revolutionary scene in 1980s Nicaragua. An excerpt from Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War.

How Zion, Ill., a fundamentalist Christian settlement with a population of 6,250, created one of the most popular stations in the country during the early days of radio.

The author of True Grit on growing up in Arkansas during World War II.

A Bush speechwriter tells all.

Walter Benjamin, mp3s, and what collecting says about us.

“Fiction writers are good people, usually. There’s a lot of pretenders, but I haven’t met a lot of sons of bitches.”

A profile of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, written at the midpoint of his career.

A profile of director Sofia Coppola.

The uneasy dance of the architecture critic, the big-name architect, the towering new building, and the city beneath it.

“Most cities spread like inkblots; a few, such as Manhattan, grew in linear increments. Paris expanded in concentric rings, approximately shown by the spiral numeration of its arrondissements.”

In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.

A profile of Winona Ryder.

“My father didn’t believe in things that were a reminder of the past because he had never had things in the past, and, more important, he had never had a past—not a past that mattered, that should be passed on to me, his son.”

A profile of Esquire features writer Chris Jones. Plus: the Jones archive on Longform.org.

What it takes to recover from a near-death brawl with a bear.

A (graphically) detailed account of a bear’s attack on a father and daughter hiking in Glacier National Park.

An archaeology of debt.