For years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? Or a complete waste of time?

At The New York Times, a reckoning.

The twilight of a magazine empire.

How Adam Neumann turned WeWork into a $47 billion business.

Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.

The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.

How Shane Smith built Vice.

Marcus Hutchins stopped one of the most dangerous cyberattacks ever. Then the FBI arrested him.

The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.

“Brace Belden can’t remember exactly when he decided to give up his life as a punk-rocker turned florist turned boxing-gym manager in San Francisco, buy a plane ticket to Iraq, sneak across the border into Syria, and take up arms against the Islamic State. But as with many major life decisions, Belden, who is 27 — “a true idiot’s age,” in his estimation — says it happened gradually and then all at once.”

The hour-by-hour account of two Iraqis’ detainment and release.

Lenny Pozner used to believe in conspiracy theories. Until his son’s death became one.

A pre-Olympics profile of the now-gold medalist.

Life as an Olympic-level archer.

How a distillery worker in Kentucky stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bourbon, one barrel at a time.

The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.

They’re still printing it on paper.

Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?