How the writer Jesse Armstrong keeps the billionaire Roy family trapped in its gilded cage.

Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.

On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.

Inside Eva Moskowitz’s quest to combine rigid discipline with a progressive curriculum.

Steidl, who is sixty-six, is known for fanatical attention to detail, for superlative craftsmanship, and for embracing the best that technology has to offer. "He is so much better than anyone,” William Eggleston, the American color photographer, told me, when I met him recently in New York. Steidl has published Eggleston for a decade; two years ago, he produced an expanded, ten-volume, boxed edition of “The Democratic Forest,” the artist’s monumental 1989 work. Eggleston passed his hand through the air, in a stroking gesture. “Feel the pages of the books,” he said. “The ink is in relief. It is that thick.”

Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real.

A profile of 36-year-old curator Loïc Gouzer, who has made millions for Christie’s.

A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.

What’s behind the cyclical fashionability of the monstrously ugly Birkenstock?

The theme-park chain where kids learn to pilot a plane, pay taxes, and pretend to be adults.

A profile of novelist Jennifer Weiner.

An early profile of Lena Dunham.

A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.

Andrew Breitbart’s empire of bluster.