The life of a high-wire impresario.

A stripping trip to Florida gone horribly astray told across 158 tweets.

A second act for the former head of McSweeney’s.

“As the world’s best-known oceanographer—Sylvia is to our era what Jacques Cousteau was to an earlier one—she feels a heavy responsibility. In her lifetime, she has seen the ocean damaged in ways humans never thought it could be. The ongoing disaster leaves her mournful, desolate, and sometimes scary to talk to. Since her first dive, in a sponge-diver’s helmet in a Florida river when she was 16, she has spent 7,000 hours, or the better part of a year, underwater.”

A former staffer on how the company failed its female employees.

Inside a movement.

A profile of new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

On the unexpected longevity of a very strange theory.

“Offhand, there are maybe three times in my life I can clearly recall laughing at something really terrible. One: when my mother told me my grandfather had a heart attack. Two: when a friend and I were driving to Cape Cod and a huge bird careened into the windshield, instantly bonking itself dead. Three: when my friends tried to keep me from going home from a party because they thought my boyfriend might kill me.”

A personal and legal history of assisted suicide.

Should having an intellectual disability disqualify a mother from raising her child?

A conversation on the Times Square of the ’50s and ’60s.

A New Yorker finds an unlikely house guest on Craigslist.

How France’s public schools became the battleground in a culture war.

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

A profile of 14-year-old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson.

A profile of Felipe Lopez, high school phenom.

On the reverberations of a 1974 peasant massacre in El Salvador.

A profile of John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar.

How one man terrorized a small Illinois town.

A profile of Hollywood agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar.

A profile of the late singer.

A visit to the new Havana.

A history of the gravestone laser-etching industry.

Tourism in Burma? A journey through Asia’s most anesthetized state.