The story of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, written and published the following week.

On the Aran islands of Ireland.

The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.

The story of a national obsession.

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.

“Missy (Misdemeanor) Elliott, the twenty-five-year-old hip-hop performer who is energetically redefining the boundaries of rap music, is a singer, a songwriter, an arranger, a producer, and a talent scout. Six months ago, few people outside the music industry had heard of her; six months from now, it will be necessary to pretend that you’ve known about Missy Elliott for years.”

In Cleveland, TX, nineteen men and boys gang raped an eleven-year-old girl in an abandoned trailer. This is the story of the victim and her community.

A mine fire in May killed 301 men, making it the worst industrial disaster in Turkish history. This is the story of two men who lived through it.

“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 night the doctor behind the Scarsdale Diet was shot by his mistress, the impeccable headmistress of the elite all-girls boarding school Madeira.

The story of mediatakeout.com, a gossip site with a monthly audience of 16 million and a loose relationship with the truth.

400,000 Wiki-leaked reports that confirm the minute-by-minute misadventures of a “military at war with its own inner demons” in the unforgiving terrain of Iraq.

A history.

 The explosion of publishing created a much more democratic and permanent network of public communication than had ever existed before. The mass proliferation of newspapers and magazines, and a new-found fascination with the boundaries of the private and the public, combined to produce the first age of sexual celebrity.

A technical, thrilling account of how Pinboard, a tiny bookmarking service, dealt with the fire hose of new users after news leaked that Yahoo would discontinue Pinboard’s massive rival, Delicious.

The story of one man’s descent into lies and illegal activity – and why it could so easily happen to any of us.

The importance of the sports metaphor in the American consciousness and why Lewis Lapham didn’t join the C.I.A.

The little-understood history of the whales and how barnacles may be the key to understanding how giant mammals evolved underwater.

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.