Longform

On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.

A murder involving the late actor leaves unanswered questions.

“There was an unwritten rule in Mia Farrow’s house that Woody Allen was never supposed to be left alone with their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan.”

After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.

On the Netflix hit drama and its show runner, Beau Willimon.

Orlando’s suburbs become an accidental testing ground.

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.

On hit-and-run deaths, and in particular, that of Tiara Nichelle Jackson on the Beltway.

An extended conversation on the problem of whether to “drop out or take over” conducted on Alan Watts’ houseboat, the S.S. Vallejo.

The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

A love story.

On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

An adventure on the Beringia, a dog sled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s frozen tundra.

How Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, all nine-sixteenths of a second of it, changed TV, the internet, and American culture.

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

How a supposedly safe party drug turned lethal.

How a substandard abortion provider stays in business.

Lunch with recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao, the self-described “Most Influential Person of China,” to discuss his interest in buying The New York Times.

A small Texas town suddenly finds it’s the home of a possible cult.

With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.