On champ-turned-coach Alberto Salazar and the New York City Marathon.

On killing and eating small game in Seattle.

Rumors abound about the hermit kingdom.

On self-improvement, New Year’s resolutions, and Sylvia Plath.

How Craig Venter’s bugs might save the world.

Cleaning up after the fisherman at a remote lodge in Northern Ontario.

On the murder of a young Hasidic boy in Brooklyn.

A profile of John Williams.

What happens when top universities focus on careers rather than minds.

Can The Washington Post be saved?

The impact, both on researchers and patients, of a radical treatment.

On office chairs.

In the 1950s and '60s, the distinctions between rank found blunt expression in chair design, naming and price point; Knoll, for example, produced "Executive," "Advanced Management," and "Basic Operational" chairs in the late 1970s. Recall the archetypal scenes where the boss, back to the door, protected by an exaggerated, double-spine headrest, slowly swivels around to meet the eyes of his waiting subordinate, impotent in a stationary four-legger.

A sociobiologist on how we evolved into artists.

The autopsy of a once-dominant site.

A profile of Fleshlight inventor Steve Shubin.

Teaching Ted Kaczynski’s anti-technology ideas.

On a movement divided.

The definitive biographical portrait of a whistleblower.

A profile of Canadian politician Jamie Lee Hamilton.

Nicky Louie and the Ghost Shadows.

Western execs on what it’s like to be taken over by a Chinese firm.

The addictive lure of Brooklyn’s last bingo parlors.

A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

The life, death, and ghost of a catcher.

Inside a school that trains students in an ancient rite: the taking of ayahuasca.