Larry Harnisch has spent 24 years researching the Dahlia case and dispelling myths. Has he finally found an answer of his own?

This story is a co-publication with Crime Reads.

By Miles Corwin

It is the coldest of cold cases, a case so old the detective in charge of the investigation wasn’t born at the time of the homicide. The victim was initially known as Jane Doe number one, the first female homicide victim of 1947. Her anonymity was soon transformed into notoriety and her case evolved into the nation’s most infamous unsolved murder. London has Jack the Ripper. New…

The Long Odyssey of a Child Soldier

By Adriana Carranca

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Absolution

By Adriana Carranca March 18, 2020

The Long Odyssey of a Child Soldier

This Delacorte Review story is being published in partnership with London-based Granta magazine, with a mission “to discover and publish the best in new literary fiction, memoir, reportage, and poetry from around the world.”

1. Boy, interrupted

Like every kid in Northern Uganda in the 1990s, Okello Moses Rubangangeyo grew up terrified of Joseph Kony. A mythic self-proclaimed messenger of the Holy Spirit…

Can attitude help save the planet? A frightened climate reporter meets an ex-basketball player with a serious game plan.

By Audrey Gray

It was a weird place for a late-midlife crisis: Disneyland, 2002. And it was a weird kind of crisis, too, because it had little to do with longing or regret or any fear of aging. Ed Mazria’s awakening was highly rational, backed up with data, and powerfully prescient. It was the exact crisis many of us are having today. …

A French town has never stopped celebrating the GIs who liberated them 75 years ago.

By Andrew McCormick

Finding where exactly their war ended was no simple task for Ceo Bauer and Steve Bodnar. They first returned in 1985 to Maizières-lès-Metz, the small town in northeastern France, that they had helped liberate. Bauer was blown up in that battle and Bodnar was shot and would eventually lose a leg. The two had been foxhole buddies and became friends after the war.

Bauer was now 61 and Bodnar 59, and their working days were mostly behind them. …

The Brooklyn Dodgers Played in Nine World Series. They Won One. Two Years Later They Were Gone.

By James Schapiro

Just before 7:00 in the morning on Tuesday, October 4, 1955, the sun rose over New York. The air was a pleasant fifty-nine degrees, and the forecast called for temperatures to rise to near seventy in the afternoon, along with gentle southeast winds and scattered clouds. There was rain on the Gulf Coast and in the Pacific Northwest, but the storms were staying far away from New York.

President Dwight Eisenhower, hospitalized a week and a half before with a…