David Roberts, a major figure in modern adventure literature, has explored risk, death, and loss for more than 50 years. Now he’s fighting cancer while producing new writing—including a series of reflections on his disease—that friends and colleagues believe is his best work yet. By Brad Rassler.

Jennifer Frey drank herself to death. By Dave McKenna.

I lost a child, and yet I chose to become a father again. Is that bravery or stupidity? By Jayson Greene.

Confronting the true danger on top of the world's tallest mountain. By Gabriel Filippi and Brett Popplewell.

R.I.P. Hannah.

When Leslie Kendall Dye's mother woke up after a massive brain bleed, she wasn't the same mother.

Darlingside

Gwendolyn Brooks

People say magic isn't real, but they say that about my illness too. By Maranda Elizabeth.

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns. By Donald Hall.

James

[Warning: Disturbing, graphic, morbid] “The idea of your body being taken apart and flown into the air in a million different directions is really, really powerful ….” — Caitlin Doughty.

The workers who survived the 2015 shooting can't tell you their names - but they want you to know their story. By Jim Rendon.

“The tree was so old, it wasn’t able to withstand the intensity of the heat we had. We had these stretches of heat, and then a deluge.” By James Barron.

In the aftermath of a miscarriage, the loss of someone I never knew has been more devastating than I could have imagined. By Laura Turner.

After Pvt. Felix Hall was murdered, how hard did the government try to find his killers? By Alexa Mills.

Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet.

Yearning for conception. By Belle Boggs. (Mar. 2012)

On October 1, 2015, the container ship El Faro sailed directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. When it sank it took the lives of all 33 aboard, including eight New Englanders. Rachel Slade wanted to know what happened and why. You will not soon forget what she found.

Curtis Mayfield