SubscribeAboutArchive Archive 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 The Love Bomb For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have promised to help teenagers kick drug and alcohol addiction. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them. by Daniel Kolitz No Place Like Home In 2005, a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz was stolen from a small town in Minnesota. Who took them, and where did they go? In an eight-part narrative podcast, two journalists search for answers. by Ariel Ramchandani and Seyward Darby The Snitch In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead were lies, betrayal, and murder. by Jordan Michael Smith Invisible Kid Sentenced to life in prison at 16, Adolfo Davis hoped a Supreme Court ruling would give him a chance at a new beginning. But nothing about freedom turned out as he expected. by Maddy Crowell The Lives of Others Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. They didn’t know each other, and never would. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery. by Lindsay Jones Cat and Mouse With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer. by Phil Hoad The Gilded Age Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin. by Scott Eden © 2021 The Atavist Magazine. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic.
The Love Bomb For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have promised to help teenagers kick drug and alcohol addiction. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them. by Daniel Kolitz
No Place Like Home In 2005, a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz was stolen from a small town in Minnesota. Who took them, and where did they go? In an eight-part narrative podcast, two journalists search for answers. by Ariel Ramchandani and Seyward Darby
The Snitch In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead were lies, betrayal, and murder. by Jordan Michael Smith
Invisible Kid Sentenced to life in prison at 16, Adolfo Davis hoped a Supreme Court ruling would give him a chance at a new beginning. But nothing about freedom turned out as he expected. by Maddy Crowell
The Lives of Others Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. They didn’t know each other, and never would. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery. by Lindsay Jones
Cat and Mouse With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer. by Phil Hoad
The Gilded Age Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin. by Scott Eden
