Read Empire of Pain

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

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

The leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in 1988; the deal book.

The murder of a Kansas farm family and the two men who did it; Capote's non-fiction novel.

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

The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.

A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.

Atul Gawande on what medicine gets wrong about dying, and what a good end looks like.