On losing your Beloved in 2020.

The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better.

I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.

The fall of CBS showrunner Peter Lenkov.

In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, evidence suggests she got away with murder.

On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.

An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.

The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do. The story that became The Bling Ring.

The Manhattan murder mystery spurred a tabloid drama that engulfed the city’s rich and powerful. But what really happened?

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

And unraveled behind the scenes.

A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.

Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have fled to Canada and are living in their car. They are seeking asylum from the menace of the “Hollywood Star Whackers.”

Ari Emanuel’s failure to launch.

How the Ebola outbreak spread.

How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

“This is the remarkable, true story of a rich white male celebrity who abused his power and then apologized for it.”

How NBC killed its Weinstein story.

The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

An oral history of Lilith Fair.

At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.

A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.

A profile of the author on the eve on his debut novel, The Water Dancer.

How Saudi Arabia makes dissidents disappear.