On the front lines of the labor movement.

An argument on the meaning of Cubism settled.

Behold the marvel of the animal’s fabrication.

The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.

On the future of air travel.

The Canadian scapegoat of the AIDS epidemic.

It was the failed dream of the heir to the Frank-o-Matic sausage-link machinery fortune.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.

Jacqueline Kennedy, William Manchester, and the battle over the authorized account of J.F.K.’s assassination.

What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.

A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.

The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.

A profile of the (now former) director of the House of Dior, John Galliano.

“I had inherited a Rolodex full of useful phone numbers (the College Board, a helpful counselor in the UCLA admissions office), but the number I kept handing out was that of a family therapist.”

The author on why he belives in God (“It makes things better”), the perils of writing high (“Annie Wilkes is cocaine, she was my number-one fan”) and what he thinks of other writers (“Hemingway sucks, basically”).

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

The story of Kokie’s, and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood.

On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.

A profile of video game artist Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Bros.

A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.

On the downfall of Deutsche Bank.