A profile of Mike Nichols.

The rapid rise of a wordless language.

The story, so far, of First Look Media.

Kelli Stapleton, whose teenage daughter was autistic and prone to violent rages, had come to fear for her life. So she made a decision that perhaps only she could justify.

Airbnb vs. New York City.

Ben Bradlee’s nagging concerns about Deep Throat.

A profile of Oscar de la Renta.

“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.’

On what you do and don’t learn in medical school.

A digressive consideration of the popular new show.

What happens when humans get superpowers.

Life after losing your memory at 22.

The survivors who “have built the most effective, organized anti-rape movement since the late ’70s.”

The story of one of the 74,000 children who come to this country each year alone and undocumented.

At the bedside when a pregnancy ends.

On Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire and its lingering effects on our collective imagination and environment.

A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.

“People always ask Rivers why she doesn’t just retire, enjoy her old age. ‘But they don’t get that I love it,’ she says. ‘All I ever wanted was this. I’m lucky, you idiots.’”

Spun-off from Time Warner and saddled with $1.3 billion in debt as a parting gift, the once-mighty Time Inc needs to reinvent itself. Fast.

A profile of the Rookie editor-in-chief, who makes her Broadway debut next week.

“After listening to him since I was a kid and seeing him live for—gulp—nearly 40 years, I think I’m beginning to figure it out.”

The debate surrounding Truvada, the first drug approved by the FDA to prevent HIV.

Three years after profiling him, the author checks in with the Bieber experiment.

How New York real estate became the new Swiss bank account.

The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.