9 Feature Stories You Can't Miss This Week: Kendall, Kin, And Kids These Days

The first installment of “16,” a series about ordinary people at the weirdest age. Meet a teenager with trichotillomania who is trying to be more than the girl in class who pulls her hair out. Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Will Stephenson chronicles the bizarre tale of murder and meth that jolted a sleepy Arkansas town. It all comes down to a former municipal judge who once sent someone a live poisonous snake in the mail — or does it? Read it at the Arkansas Times.

A startling investigation by Mark Follman, Julia Lurie, Jaeah Lee, James West, and Ted Miller into the enormous economic toll of America's gun violence epidemic. "Divvied up among every man, woman, and child in the United States, it would work out to more than $700 per person." Read it at Mother Jones.

Jina Moore spends a heartbreaking three days with the relatives of the 148 students killed in the Garissa University attack as they attempt to identify their loved ones. "It’s the story of how hard it is to know your own dead, when their faces have been mutilated by terrorists and their bodies have been rotting in the heat — the story of mothers studying fingernails, of fathers interrogating what’s left of cheekbones, of living sisters lifting their ankles to compare the shape of their feet to a corpse." Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Kayleb Moon-Robinson, who is autistic, was 11-years-old the first time he was charged with a crime — for kicking a trash can at his school in Virginia. When schools are quick to refer students to law enforcement for minor incidents, are they essentially pushing their most vulnerable kids into lives of crime? Susan Ferriss investigates. Read it at CPI, Public Radio International, or Time.

In hip-hop, everyone who’s anyone comes to the Illmore — a hyper-exclusive party during SXSW where A-listers like Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, J. Cole, and A$AP Rocky are as likely to be found mingling in the crowd as they are on stage. Reggie Ugwu spends two days and three sweaty nights behind the scenes with the twentysomething party promoters who are re-imagining the concert business for the hip-hop generation. Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Zach Baron spends several eventful days with 19-year-old supermodel Kendall Jenner as she navigates the throes and throngs of Paris Fashion Week. What does your life become when you grow up in the most famous family on television? Read it at GQ.

When photographer Sally Mann published several candid, and some nude, shots of her young children in 1992, she didn't anticipate the widespread backlash it would receive, nor the questions it would raise about pedophilia and parental responsibility. Now, she's reflecting on that time in the very publication that most visibly critiqued her work. Read it atThe New York Times Magazine.

While cleaning out her father's home after his death, Liz Prato discovered a single sheet of paper that would forever change the way she understood her family. "I was not ready to be that person, the person whose dad was a sexual predator." Read it at The Butter.