The autopsy of a once-dominant site.

A profile of singer-songwriter Will Oldham.

He has settled into character as an uncanny troubadour, singing a sort of transfigured country music, and he has become, in his own subterranean way, a canonical figure. Johnny Cash covered him, Björk has championed him (she invited him to appear on the soundtrack of “Drawing Restraint 9”), and Madonna, he suspects, has quoted him (her song “Let It Will Be” seems to borrow from his “O Let It Be,” though he says, “I’m fully prepared to accept that it’s a coincidence”).

A profile of Fleshlight inventor Steve Shubin.

On a movement divided.

On the evening of November 7th 1974, the 7th Earl of Lucan, an inveterate gambler and Backgammon champion with a taste for power boats, snuck into his estranged wife’s basement. He then bludgeoned their nanny with a lead pipe and placed her in a canvas sack, before attempting to murder his wife. Recognizing his voice, she convinced him that she could him escape, then slipped out a bathroom window. Lord Lucan was never seen again.

A teenage love triangle turns tragic in Pinellas Park, Florida.

The definitive biographical portrait of a whistleblower.

A profile of Canadian politician Jamie Lee Hamilton.

A profile of of Courtney Love.

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

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

The life, death, and ghost of a catcher.

A profile of director Sofia Coppola.

How the dream of the Euro became a nightmare.

A 2000 speech on the impossibility of all forms of exile, particularly literary.

Doping is a problem for equine sports, too.

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

A takedown of the Last of the Mohicans author.

The view from a low point.

How a creator of Assassin’s Creed sold investors on a magic marijuana product that he claimed could predictably produce specific feelings in users.

What happened when a plane full of marijuana crashed in Yosemite Park.

A physiological theory of mental illness.

A look inside Donald Trump’s portfolio of exclusive real estate properties.

A pre-Olympics profile of the now-gold medalist.

A profile of the piano prodigy.