Best of 2022: All of our No. 5 Story Picks

There’s nothing quite like it. You’re out an outdoor event when nature calls; looking around, your heart sinks when see that your only option is a flimsy plastic shed, behind the door of which untold horrors lurk. Odd as it is, though, you might fear that prospect a bit less after reading Hockensmith’s breezy tour through the history and importance of port-o-potties (and, crucially, the professional maintenance thereof). Whether following a crew of Buffalo sanitation workers undertaking a frenzied early-game half-suck in the parking lots around the Bills’ stadium or speaking with academics…

Holland cajoled killers into confessing to their crimes. We identified how he used high-risk tactics, like lying and hypnotizing, in his cases.

Jane Mayer writes that, behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.

Some Thoughts on the “Inspiresting”

Wrestling with debt, ambition, and the woman who inspired Leonard Cohen’s famous song.

It is hard to sustain the illusion that there is anything good about winter after the hundredth day or so.

Digging deeper into conflicting accounts of Bonnie & Clyde’s escapades in Shamrock

Abe Streep writes that, every spring, shed hunters head to the woods looking for deer and elk antlers that may fetch thousands of dollars, or social-media fame.

It’s not about conquering the mountain. It’s simply about going there. A mountain is a god. It’s big enough to consume you and, on a primal level, I want it to do so. I want to feel part of that vastness. It awakens things in me, pleasant and unpleasant, that nothing else can.

GQ’s April cover star details why every extraordinary thing about his wild work and life actually makes perfect sense.

March 28, 2022 – “What could I do? Slowly I began to befriend the goose.”

Exotic lumber salvaged from a remote forest in Belize is the world’s most coveted tonewood

I came for the book launch party of American Muckraker. What I got instead was 50-minutes of hagiographic techno-cabaret

The writer Caity Weaver’s pursuit of the manifest destiny of the millennial generation ended up looking better in the photos.

From the medieval trappings of his Texas mansion to his raw liver-based diet, the TikTok star and supplement magnate promotes living like a caveman in all aspects of life.

One of the perks of being Jimmy Carter’s grandson is that you get to attend the family’s annual trip, a gathering for the whole extended Carter clan that’s organized by the former President and First Lady. John Chuldenko—whose stepfather is Carter’s son Jack—loves to attend these events, which might involve fishing in the Gulf of

He’s pushing ninety and still saddling up at the Four Sixes Ranch. Just don’t call him the last cowboy.

You might not recognize the name Wendy Froud (née Midener), but in the practical effects world, she’s a legend. Her work even earned her one of pop culture’s greatest monikers: the Mother of Yoda.

In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats.

Eye contact can be an incredibly important form of communication between musicians – so why do some conductors barely look at the orchestra?