Confessions of a white-collar dope fiend.

Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.

“When I look at Mr. McCreery’s boat… I know that life is wild, dangerous, beautiful.”

A portrait of the Somali capital.

On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.

The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.

On the lives of street kids.

The story of Kokie’s, and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood.

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.

One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.

The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.

Living with – and dying because of – hyperacusis, a condition that grossly intensifies hearing.

The author tells the story of his kidnapping by militants in Syria.

The story of a suicide.

A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.

The author examines his closest relationships.

From 1975-1986, Anthony Edward Dokoupil distributed more than 50 tons of weed in the United States. The operation ruined his family and destroyed his life. Three decades later, his son came looking for answers.

A father-son trip to the Playa.

“I am not a tech journalist. I have never done this before. I don’t know what’s going on. Like most journalists everywhere, I am hungover.”

A trip to CES, “what a World’s Fair might look like if brands were more important than countries.”

Why parties, love, kids, conversation and more are so miserable (at least to Phillip Lopate).

Adventures in public speaking.