Yves Bouvier made hundreds of millions of dollars selling paintings. Was it fraud? By Sam Knight.

Meet the scariest birds you can imagine, scaled up to nightmarish proportions

Scientific inquiry is a process of constant revision. And revision is where the most intriguing discoveries happen.

How one distillery worker enlisted friends, family, and a few fellow steroid enthusiasts to liberate hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of premium bourbon, one barrel at a time. By Reeves Wiedeman.

How her old-school rigor makes her uncannily accurate. By Clare Malone.

What “The Party Decides” could get wrong about Donald Trump and the GOP. By Nate Silver.

Trying to resolve the stubborn paradoxes of their field, physicists craft ever more mind-boggling visions of reality. By Margaret Wertheim. (June ’13)

The Hatton Garden raid was meticulous in its planning, dazzling in its complexity – yet still the perpetrators were caught. In this interconnected age, has the Hollywood-style heist become a thing of the past? By Laurence Dodds.

Betting worth billions. Elite players. Violent threats. Covert messages with Sicilian gamblers. And suspicious matches at Wimbledon. Leaked files expose match-fixing evidence that tennis authorities have kept secret for years. By Heidi Blake and John Templon.

Target pulled the plug on its massive Canadian expansion less than two years after opening. This is the incredible untold story of how it all went wrong. By Joe Castaldo.

In November 2014, Akai Gurley was shot and killed by a rookie police officer in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project. As the officer's trial begins, Gurley’s family and friends tell the definitive story of the man they lost. By Alex Ronan.

In the wake of the possible murder of a prized Irish setter, Mark Seal examines the impassioned personalities who devote their lives to dogs, and the tense rivalries that can become sinister.

On the starkly beautiful island, Junot Díaz finds a rugged mountain landscape and an unexpected mash-up of cultures.

Equal parts drill sergeant, data junkie, brawler, and entrepreneur, Jeff Roe will do anything to win. Just watch. By Andy Kroll.

Citrus thieves. Honey embezzlers. Raisin scammers. Fertilizer fraud. Detective Rocky Pipkin thought he had seen it all — until he discovered Arno Smit. By Tessa Stuart.

Chris Rose's Pulitzer crystal sits in his small French Quarter apartment, its glass badly chipped from various accidents. The disfigured accolade for his work on a reporting team at the Times-Picayune is a reminder of both prowess and loss... By Michael Patrick Welch. (Mar. ’15)

Pediatrician Hans Asperger is known worldwide for the syndrome he first diagnosed. The rest of his story—in Vienna during WWII—has only recently come to light. By John Donvan and Caren Zucker.

He captured a crumbling city and almost went down with it. Then one man saw his photos. By Dan Zak.

How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.

Winner of the 2016 Great American Fiction Contest: At Highland Hospital, Zelda Fitzgerald found refuge from the world — but not from Scott.