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London Soldier Hacked To Death By Machete-Wielding Terrorists

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World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought…

The most extraordinary things about this truly incredible tale of World War II are that it hasn’t been told before in English, and that it hasn’t already been made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie.…

Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams

"See! That shit keeps popping up on my fucking computer!" says a blond woman as she leans back on a couch, bottle-feeding a baby on her lap. The woman is visible from thousands of miles away on a…

Death in Singapore - FT.com

On June 24 last year, the body of a young US electronics engineer, Shane Todd, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment. Police said it was suicide, but the Todd family believe he was murdered.…

» BGS: The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis Bronx…

Here is Richard Ben Cramer’s chilling Jerry Lee Lewis story. It originally appeared in Rolling Stone (March 1, 1984) and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. First up, a…

The Children Who Went Up In Smoke

Billboard about the Sodder children, who went missing on Christmas Eve, 1945. From www.appalachianhistory.net. For nearly four decades, anyone driving down Route 16 near Fayetteville, West Virginia,…

Atonement

In the early hours one morning last September, Lu Lobello rose from his bed, switched on a light, and stared into the video camera on his computer. It was two-thirty. The light cast a yellow pall on…

Why You Truly Never Leave High School

Sarah and Jim, 1988 & 2011.For the past three years, Argentine photographer Irina Werning has been staging reenactments of old snapshots. The project, “Back to the Future,” includes…

The Porn Critic

Kromer couldn’t operate hedonism but these days it operated him, in the way that a punctuated cylinder operates a player piano. What he knew came mostly from books—Anaïs Nin,…

Too Crooked to Fail

A policeman guards a Bank of America branch. Natalie Behring/Getty Images At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of…

Honor Thy Father

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. For public distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, contact ccasey@texasmonthly.com for reprint information and fees. IN THE…

OTL: Shadow Boxing

IAMI -- The old man opens the door and shuffles into a familiar room. The air smells of stale beer and discount brand cigarette smoke. The tables are taken by men with no names. They are all…

St. Louis The Mystery of Lloyd Gaines

published: April 04, 2007 On a cool, rainy night in March 1939, a handsome, rail-thin graduate student named Lloyd Gaines threw on an overcoat and journeyed into the streets of south Chicago. On his…

The Wallenberg Curse

STOCKHOLM -- In neat script, blue ink on white letterhead, Fredrik von Dardel began writing to the stepson he had long been told to leave for dead: "Dear beloved Raoul." It was March 24, 1956. He…

46 Women Who Were Not My Wife

Originally published in the February 2001 issue I have cheated on my wife with thirty-two women I can name (perhaps even correctly) and another dozen or so who flash into recall only as situations:…

Animals

Published in the March 2012 issue The horses knew first. Terry Thompson kept dozens of them on his farm just west of Zanesville, Ohio, a suffering river town and the seat of Muskingum County. Most…

The vagabond king

When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world’s youngest head of state. Today he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the…

Cheating, Incorporated

By Sheelah Kolhatkar (Corrects the spelling of Danica Patrick in the 11th paragraph.) Do you want to have an affair? After hearing an ad on Howard Stern's radio show or seeing a schlocky commercial…

Three Trials for Murder

Workspace

I’m a happy camper. I just moved into a new office space that’s directly suited to the way I work, think, and create. Months ago, I wrote about improving the working environment…

The Accused

Reprinted by permission of the author. The Accused A survivor’s frightening account. by PAIGE WILLIAMS • ATLANTA MAGAZINE • MAY 2002 Mike Garrish took the stand and swore before…

5.4: Pitchfork, 1995–present

One day in early 2010, the internet message board I Love Music began discussing the Pazz and Jop poll, which the Village Voice had recently published on its website. The Voice has conducted Pazz and…

This Week In The Right Not To Be Offended — University College London…

Listen to me: no sensible and well-ordered society can recognize a right to be free from offense. It's unprincipled and mercurial, a celebration of the rule of subjective reaction over the rule of…