Jeremy Bamber has a new opportunity to clear his name. But will the British justice system acknowledge that it might have gotten this famous case wrong?
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On August 7, 1985, five family members were shot dead in their English country manor, Whitehouse Farm. It looked like an open-and-shut case. But The New Yorker's Heidi Blake finds that almost nothing about this story is as it seems.
A bloody Bible, propped at an unlikely angle. A manor, locked from the inside. And a silencer, hidden under the stairs, and daubed with blood. Heidi digs into the evidence and uncovers shocking flaws.
From the daily newsletter: a profile of the actress Jennifer Lawrence, as her roles turn darker.
Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Unfailingly loyal: nine letters.
For most of human history, monsters were repugnant aberrations, breaches of the natural and moral order. What's behind our relentless urge to humanize them?