A profile of Novak Djokovic.

Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.

“Every Sunday at my house … we watched The Ed Sullivan Show…. Whether we enjoyed it or not. That was my first lesson in show business. I don’t think anybody in the house particularly enjoyed it. We just watched it. Maybe that’s the purpose of television. You just turn it on and watch it whether you want to or not.”

Kidnapping and international adoption.

What led to the 1970 explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse, in which three members of the Weather Underground were killed, and what happened to the group after.

Excerpted from Days of Rage.

On Elizabeth Warren’s shadow candidacy.

A profile of Seif Qaddafi.

A survivor’s frightening account.

On literary tourism:

Dickens World, in other words, sounded less like a viable business than it did a mockumentary, or a George Saunders short story, or the thought experiment of a radical Marxist seeking to expose the terminal bankruptcy at the heart of consumerism. And yet it was real.

Remembering Patrice O’Neal.

A Kenyan runner loses himself in Alaska.

Experiments in making others feel good.

A profile of Garry Shandling.

A profile of Arianna Huffington.

On women who take up space.

An obituary.

A profile of Harvey Weinstein.

How animals see.

A profile.

On a pair of kickers.

How UFO culture took over America.

How COVID-19 ravaged Minnesota.

What happens when we talk to animals?

How to lose weight while barely moving.

In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”