On Bill May, considered to be the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his long quest for Olympic gold.

Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say.

He’s just as nice as you think he is.

Do spirituality and self-help have a political constituency?

Everyone wants women to be mindful, calm, and deliberate. But sometimes a little chaos gets things done.

Unequal pay, harassment, or worse at the nation’s largest jewelry retailer.

The world’s largest jewelry retailer was a cesspool of harassment and unfair treatment of women who worked there.

A profile of the woman who wants to declutter the world.

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.

On A Star Is Born and the celebrity industrial complex.

Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.

He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

An essay on how we misremember our youth.

“Was she supposed to play by the rules and let her talent rot inside her extraordinary body? She’s saying that for girls like her, playing nice and fair would have gotten her nowhere. If it had worked out, we would say she was the manifestation of the American dream. Now instead we just say she’s very American.”

A profile of the (very emotional) pop singer.

What’s a writer to do when the audacity dwindles?

“Last August, I found myself wrung out and miserable over the state of the United States—the vitriol of the presidential election, the deep chasms of reality where we all seemed to find ourselves. I wanted to get the hell away, but not just away. I wanted out. I wanted nothing that resembled where I was coming from. I wanted everything new.”

A journey to the wildest edge of the spa industry.

Young people who leave strict Jewish communities face a bewildering, lonely new world. One group helps them navigate it.

Two days with a broken-hearted Tom Hiddleston.

On the road with Billy Bob Thornton and his band The Boxmasters. Twenty years after Sling Blade all he wants to do is direct but “but none of those Hollywood assclowns will give him the keys anymore.”

Two years after she sued producer Dr. Luke, saying he had drugged, raped, and emotionally abused her, Kesha is still bound to her original recording contract. She owes $100,000 (conservatively) per month on legal bills and can’t release any new music.

How a pair of HGTV stars are trying to renovate the reputation of Waco, Texas.

The author takes a trip to HempCon with her anxious, insomniac, ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother.