Brendan Koerner has a long, storied career reporting on stories and characters who feel almost too vivid to be true. For his latest at Wired, though, he turns that formula inside out—and becomes one of the army of hidden support workers who assume the identity of an OnlyFans creator in order to maintain chats with paying subscribers. Hilarious and deeply...

Joanna Meade moved into an old house in Baltimore’s Roland Park neighborhood. When they removed a wall during a bathroom renovation, they discovered a black tin box hidden among the plumbing. Inside, she found 67 “juicy turn-of-the-century love letters,” all except one postmarked 1920 or 1921. Tim Prudente and Stokely Baksh recount what Meade, her...

A fabric store owner, a surgeon, a TV-news traffic anchor, a Latin-dance-music D.J., a church organist, a letter carrier, and a firefighter share career highlights and their very last day of work before retirement. There has always been a certain feeling of euphoria that comes to Tony Pabón as he looks out at the dance floor from his D.J. table...

Timothy Reif is one the legal heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer and art collector who died in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941. Since the 1990s, Reif and his family have been searching for Grünbaum’s collection—more than 400 pieces of art, including Egon Schiele’s Russian War Prisoner, a drawing worth $1.25 million. For Chicago...

Chess has enjoyed skyrocketing popularity in recent years, in part due to the hit Netflix series, The Queen’s Gambit. Rob Price says the sport of kings is rife with cheating and sexism. For Business Insider he wanted to find out how and why. For the first three decades of my life, I’d had fleeting phases of mild interest in chess, playing the...

Colleagues reportedly called Lucy Letby an “angel of death,” and the prime minister condemned her. But in the rush to judgment, serious questions about the evidence against her were ignored. The incomparable Rachel Aviv on a case that shocked the United Kingdom—but perhaps for the wrong reasons: The case against her gathered force on the basis...