Looking after the kodokushi – the elderly who die alone – of Japan.

On the life and death of The Voice contestant Anthony Riley.

The inside story of Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.

The improbable life and career of the sculptor-turned-musician.

On a neuroscientist’s personal mission to solve the mystery of how the brain processes time.

On “Poor Hartley,” the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

An Englishman’s account of the first modern Olympic games.

The despair behind the puzzle of what happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

On the perils and rewards of feminism.

Featuring the debut of the “Ghost Sex Defense.”

A story from the end of the earth.

Ten years in the life of a young woman from the Bronx.

High in the Karakoram, where the stubborn armies of India and Pakistan face off.

Learning from the upheaval of the 1930s.

The double life of Aaron Hernandez.

How airlines woo the rich.

A profile of Andrej Pejic, a model who walks the runway in both men and women’s clothing.

For even a moderately vain female, spending time with Pejic is like losing a race to someone who’s not even running: If he were not a man, he would be the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in the flesh—which, in his case, is flawless and poreless and has an English-rose luster.

The system of organized sexual slavery at the heart of ISIS.

Revealing the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a 1968 search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.

Eleven months after Sandy Hook, Newtown’s mourning remains incalculable, especially that of the parents who lost their children. And the influx of sympathy—and money—has sometimes made the grieving more difficult rather than less.

Ashima Shiraishi is the most talented rock climber in the world. She’s also 14.

The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim.

Tucker Carlson: The bow-tie is gone, but the moxie remains.

The rise of the king of American swingers.

The story behind a wad of cotton and a bit of string.