Confronting my husband's digital ghosts—one email at a time. By Nancy Westaway.

Doctor suicide is the medical profession’s grubby secret – but it’s unclear why some of those dedicated to preserving life silently plot their own deaths. By an anonymous junior doctor. (Jan. 5)

The story behind the classic ghost story ‘The Signal-Man.’ By Paul Gallagher.

Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have they failed? A political history of tragedy. By Jill Lepore.

A letter to a brother two decades after his death. By Shael Risman.

A father’s search for meaning and justice five years after his son was killed during the Tahrir Square uprising. By Jared Maslin.

What caused the worst American rail disaster in decades? By Matthew Shaerjan.

Death Cab For Cutie

Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss

“‘It’s hard with the secrecy and the way no one is willing to talk to us,’ said his sister, Bronwyn De Maso. ‘No matter how he died, if he did kill himself, he was a casualty of war.’” By Nicholas Kulish and Christopher Drewjan.

I won’t live to see how civilization gets out of this mess. But I have hope. By Piers J. Sellers.

My dad, Hugh Walker, died on Saturday. He was 66, and it was a complete shock. Obviously I’m still shattered by it all, but it’s important to me to celebrate the extraordinary person he was, and his impact on my life, as soon as I can. And when it comes to our relationship, gaming was always a feature. By John Walker.

Ryan Green is making a game that is as broken—as confounding, unresolved, and tragically beautiful—as the world itself. By Jason Tanz.

On 20 July 1942, Time magazine led with a story on ‘Fireman Shostakovich’. ‘Amid bombs bursting in Leningrad he heard the chords of victory,’ the caption on the cover said... By Anna Aslanyan.

Illness brings stillness to the final days of a young neurosurgeon. By Anna Reisman.

”Twenty immediately loved the fire truck, a classic Seagrave hook-and-ladder, and began accompanying the firefighters on all their calls, from raging blazes to false alarms.“ By Corey Kilgannon.

After her boyfriend's death, dating felt a bit like a combat zone to Glendaliz Camacho, but the emotional protective gear she donned soon became obsolete.

I have sickle cell. When you are sick, you do whatever you can to seem well, even cheat your way to it. By Sara Bivigou.

Hi! Today seems like a good day to answer some frequently asked questions... By Rachel Ward.

A mysterious mansion hidden in the hills of Los Angeles remains frozen in time since December 6, 1959. During that dark night, a doctor murdered his wife in a frenzied hammer attack, and then killed himself. Fifty years later, visitors started reporting paranormal activity. Now the abandoned house is the focus of an Internet obsession. This is the true story of 2475 Glendower Place. By Jeff Maysh.