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.

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

How John, a father of 14, lost Christmas.

The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.

A profile of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

On the friendship that made Google huge.

Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive?

A 1993 profile of Ricky Jay, world-class sleight-of-hand conjurer who rarely performs (and never for children), historian of unusual entertainments and confidence scams, bibliomaniac.

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable.

Searching for answers after unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies.