Longform

A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.

Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.

Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.

An interview with a blotto Lee Marvin.

An investigation into a scholarly hoax.

On the death of a brother.

A portrait of a new nation.

The story of Christopher Knight, who lived in the Maine woods for 27 years with virtually no human contact.

The private life of a disgraced former congressman.

The rise and fall of Synanon, an addiction-recovery cult in California, and its charismatic leader, a one-time homeless wino named Chuck Dederich who taught his followers to berate each other for therapy.

On Felix Baumgartner and his 24-mile jump.

“Remember why we’re here: to empower the child. If you can’t handle it, keep your shades on.”

One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.

Two decades later, unpacking a historic bust.

Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it.

A profile of the prime minister.

Inside the DIY world of synthetic drugs.

The origin story of the C.I.A.’s covert drone war, which began with the 2004 killing of a Pashtun militant, the result of a secret deal for access to Pakistani airspace.

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

Groupon disasters, the behaviors of the consumer swarm, and how the “1% and the 90% [are] collaborating to prey on the 9% in the middle.”

An conversation with Omar Hammami, via Twitter.

On Swedish game designer Markus Persson and his singular creation, Minecraft, which has sold over twenty million copies and earned Persson over a hundred million dollars last year.

Will LaFever never felt right in the world. So he took to the Utah desert, barely making it out alive.