An early profile of Sasha Grey.

A profile of Steve Buscemi.

Traveling with President Clinton.

A profile of Barry Bonds published as the steroid talk intensified.

On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.

Excerpted from the author’s biography of mathematician Simon Phillips Norton.

A look at the artists and writers who drive for a New York cab company. The story that inspired Taxi.

An attempt to sort out whether Vick is truly a changed man or simply a very gifted football player who was bound to be forgiven.

How Michelle Bachmann became a GOP front-runner.

A profile of an up-and-coming director:

Well, according to Woody, his ascent has been a series of painful falls. Success hasn't changed him, Allen insists: he's still a schlemiel. "I'm afraid of the dark and suspicious of the light," he says. "I have an intense desire to return to the womb—anybody's." Ineptitude, Woody goes on, is a family curse.

A profile of Vogue Creative Director André Leon Talley.

From our guide to haute couture genius at Slate.

A profile of under-fire Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein.

A profile of the late singer.

An early profile of Mrs. Murdoch that made her husband very angry.

A profile of Rupert Murdoch, written before his empire began to crumble.

A profile of the hard-living, cop-dodging artist Dash Snow, published two years before his death of an overdose.

A profile of Hollywood agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar.

A sit-down with Ms. Franklin.

The last days of Spalding Gray.

The story of a Marine who saved innumerable lives, then got fired.

A profile of 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan, the newly crowned Miss America.

This past Memorial Day weekend, Steven T. Florio, the president and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, made a dramatic change at The New Yorker, the most illustrious of the 17 magazines he runs for billionaire S.I. "Si" Newhouse Jr. He fired his own brother.

A profile of driver A.J. Foyt on the eve of what was supposed to be his final Indy 500.

A profile of Ludwig Minelli, the head of the Swiss assisted suicide organization Dignitas.

The life and death of Anna Nicole Smith.