How a transgender Australian found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides, and unimaginable filth of endless variation. By Sarah Krasnostein.

German concentration and extermination camps were run by the speakers of one language but inhabited by speakers of many others. Interpretation became necessary to both sides. Linguistic skills helped some inmates to survive, but the deployment of these skills could involve a cost. By Michael Cronin.

Step back, Marie Kondo. By Hannah-Rose Yee.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Dire Straits

Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then, it was too late. By Caitlin Flanagan.

The comfort a robot pet provides the aged is like all cat love: hard to understand, but it works. By Jeremy D. Larson (Mar. 24, 2016)

Fifteen people lived on the 21st floor of Grenfell Tower. What was their story? By Katie Razzall, Sara Moralioglu, Nick Menzies.

The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers is proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Image of the Year Competition.

See the most powerful and heartbreaking images from the Las Vegas shooting that is now the deadliest mass killing in U.S. history.

The unusual ecological experiment took place in Mississippi, and the scientists were awed by the results—especially the rivers of maggots. By Christie Wilcox.

Modest Mouse

As a psychotherapist, Irvin Yalom has helped others grapple with their mortality. Now he is preparing for his own end. By Jordan Michael Smith.

A 12-year-old schoolgirl of class VII in Tamil Nadu, India committed suicide by jumping from a 25-foot high building. The victim left a note…

The [Cincinnati, Ohio] Enquirer sent 60 journalists to cover an ordinary week in this extraordinary time. This is what an epidemic looks like.

Michael Schofield thought his young daughter, Janni, was a genius, until he realised her bright mind masked an inner darkness. (Aug. 25, 2012)

A year before leaving Enfield—the Georgian-style school building would later be converted into a train station and then ultimately be demolished—John Keats discovered Books. Books were the spoils left by the Incas, by Captain Cook’s voyages, Robinson Crusoe... By Fleur Jaeggy.

What kind of books do you write when you believe civilization is doomed? By Laura Miller.

It‘s not that uncommon, but it was hard to figure out how to respond. By Steven Petrow.

“We are all constantly cheating death” is how I usually translated the Creole phrase that my mother had been casually saying for years. By Edwidge Danticat.