Read In Cold Blood

Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and the blood test that never worked; Carreyrou's reporting.

A mother of ten disappeared in Belfast in 1972 and what the Troubles did; Patrick Radden Keefe.

The Sackler family and OxyContin; Keefe's dynasty of the opioid crisis.

The Osage murders of the 1920s and the birth of the FBI; Grann before Scorsese.

Pacino robs a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover's surgery; "Attica!"

A nature columnist sent by mistake to cover an African war; Waugh's Fleet Street satire.

Tracy Kidder inside Data General building a computer in 1979; the first great tech book.

John Hersey follows six survivors through the day of the bomb; the New Yorker gave it a whole issue.