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1. The Avenger

Patrick Radden Keefe | The New Yorker | Sept. 21, 2015 | 41 minutes (10,307 words)

Ken Dornstein’s brother David was killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, and he’s spent most of his life searching for the truth.

2. Telling JJ

John Woodrow Cox | Washington Post | Sept. 18, 2015 | 20 minutes (5,100 words)

How a ten-year-old learns that she has HIV.

3. What Happened After My Kidnapping

Bradford Pearson | Philadelphia Magazine | Sept. 21, 2015 | 19 minutes (4,777 words)

Bradford Pearson was abducted and robbed at gunpoint in West Philadelphia in 2006. He tries to track down the men who did it.

4. The Road to Damascus

Sonia Smith | Texas Monthly | Sept. 17, 2015 | 36 minutes (9,030 words)

Austin Tice heeded a calling to become a war reporter in Syria. His stories became front-page news, and then he disappeared.

5. Hemingway in Love

A.E. Hotchner | Smithsonian | Sept. 23, 2015 | 19 minutes (4,984 words)

A.E. Hotchner reveals the story of when his friend Ernest Hemingway was in love with two women simultaneously.