Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.

Creating – and revising – the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

A profile of Carmelo Anthony, newly anointed savior of the New York Knicks.

On the life and afterlife of Che Guevara.

Fears of witchcraft leave a trail of dismembered bodies in Buenaventura, Colombia.

On being kicked out of Doris Lessing’s house.

The stories of a record-setting chain of transplants.

A profile of William Heirens, the convicted “Lipstick Killer” of Chicago, who died this week.

On the morality of procreation and the origins of birth control.

Millions of dollars worth of nuts are disappearing in California.

A critique of Facebook.

A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw.

In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?

An oral history of Burning Man.

Two American backpackers, two Indonesian villagers, one small boat, 15 slices of bread, a dozen hard-boiled eggs, ten oranges, five apples, two pineapples, two bags of cookies, two packages of peanuts, eight liters of water, one machete and three weeks adrift at sea.

There is so much talk now about the art of the film that we may be in danger of forgetting that most of the movies we enjoy are not works of art.

An oral history of the disaster:

Someone said to me, or maybe I read it, that the problem of Chernobyl presents itself first of all as a problem of self understanding. That seemed right. I keep waiting for someone intelligent to explain it to me.

A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.

A profile of Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the sixth-highest paid lobbyist in the country. Since Obama took office, Donohue has scared-up tens of millions in new donations.

A profile of Jimmy Breslin.

“This isn’t an essay about clothes, exactly, nor is it about fashion, quite. It is about women and clothes and something that happens between them that we could think of as a kind of third rail of female experience.”

After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis—many of them children—are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.

The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet.

The soul of an octopus.

The cost of Alzheimer’s.