The psychology behind our limitations of reason.

An interview with the novelist.

How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.

A profile of a dresser of celebrities.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

Does the ubiquitous dance troupe really present five thousand years of civilization reborn?

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.

Two brothers interact with a peculiar visitor.

A profile of the director and actor.

How Niki Nakayama’s kaiseki restaurant became a highly coveted reservation in L.A.

Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?

How can you know if you’re about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? “If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,” Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. “If it can’t, it won’t.” (Rotten luck for people whose job description is “Predict the future.”)

Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.

A profile of Toni Morrison.

Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.

Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his debut thriller, The Woman in the Window. His life contains even stranger twists.

An African-American-owned restaurant began making the spicy dish eighty years ago. Now it’s a viral sensation. Who’s getting the big money?

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

The Booker Prize-winning novelist on fantasy, reality, and a religious crisis that has never ended.

On a Presidential paper trail.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s new movie, inspired by Gerhard Richter, blurs the line between fiction and biography. Richter says that it goes too far.

A profile of the climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, dubbed Spider-Man by the French press, who describes robbery as an act of imagination.

Elizabeth Anderson thinks we’ve misunderstood the basis of a free and fair society.