The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.

An Englishman’s eighteen years of exile-by-choice.

Investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.

A physician reports on his own catastrophic injury.

“After college, as my friends left Michigan for better opportunities, I was determined to help fix this broken, chaotic city by building my own home in the middle of it. I was 23 years old.”

The gay influence on American cooking.

A move to Los Angeles and a foray into the bourgeoisie.

The author dives to the wreck of the Mohawk, where his uncle died in 1935.

“I’ve tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s what helps.”

“When I was fourteen, I had a relationship with my eighth grade history teacher. People called me a victim. They called him a villain. But it’s more complicated than that.”

Adventures as a mortuary assistant.

“Before I put down my phone, I took a picture of my son. I worried that if I didn’t I would never believe he had existed.”

Memories of a lovely afternoon with a serial killer.

“I shared my plans with no one, not my girlfriend, not my parents, not my closest friends. Nobody knew the route I was taking out of town, where I was going, or my new name. If I got caught, it would be by my own mistakes.” A writer’s attempt to disappear for a month with a $5,000 bounty on his head.

On the best teacher the writer ever had.

What happens when a pacemaker outlives the brain.

A 27-year old reporter is kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for over a year.

The author, who died last week, tells the story of his guns.

Playing tourist in the isolated nation.

A mother-son bus trip from Florida to Juarez.

Reporting on drug-resistant tuberculosis across Papua New Guinea – and then contracting the disease.

Attending the Afterlife Awareness Conference.

The author participates in the Society for Creative Anachronism’s “Crown Lyst, the twice-yearly event when knights will battle with ancient weapons and the victor will be named the new king.”

The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.

On disposing of a dead sea lion, and the pitfalls of memory.