Longreads

I thought I could escape my jail kid past in an idyllic southern city. But trouble found me, and not everyone I knew got out alive.

The dubious distinction, and literary legacy, of Leo Szilard, the physicist and writer "who did the most to create the atomic bomb, and the most to stop it."

First Nations people don't believe in crossing the border, but the imaginary boundaries we're forced to move between can create very real divides.

My grandfather had never told me about his trip to the Soviet Union in the sixties, but I don't know why I was surprised. He never told me anything, not even my grandmother's name.

With his unconventional take on children's television, Mr. Rogers helped redefine the male role model.

Susan Peters was an Academy Award-nominated actress, a trainee pilot, a medical student. But it was a shooting incident in 1945 that would come to define her.

These ten friends have been playing the childhood game for decades—and each year, the stakes get higher. Now, their contest is being immortalized on film.

Surgery can be seen as way to escape being a trans woman, the freedom to disappear into an "ordinary" life. But my scars, my complicated being, mean more than any illusion of freedom.

Despite decades of persecution and discrimination, shamanism, Korea's oldest belief system, still maintains its hold on the national psyche.