A profile of Aretha Franklin.

On the life and career of Richard Pryor, as he neared the end of both.

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

Generations of the writer’s family experience the “romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes” of San Francisco.

She secretly recorded her brother, Holland’s most notorious criminal, confessing to multiple murders. Will he exact revenge?

He is one of the most powerful people in media and has become a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement. Now six women accuse Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.

JD.com is expanding its consumer base with drone delivery and local recruits who can exploit villages’ tight-knit social networks to drum up business.

A profile of "L.A.'s most adventurous eater," restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, who died Saturday.

Previously: a 2012 interview with Gold in The Believer.

When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.

Could a global icon of extinction still be alive?

A mother and child navigate life after a natural disaster.

It won’t be easy.

Discovering why we hurt.

“The job is to be enough of a personality that they want to know what you think.”

A PR company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.

A profile.

A chef spills some trade secrets.

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than you’d expect.

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.

A profile of the filmmaker.

Inside the cases for—and against—his removal from office.

A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.

How the administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance, one civil servant at a time.

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

Kids have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.