Joyce Hatto, unknown to even the most ardent classical music collectors until late in her life, released a string of incredible performances of great works, distributed by her husband’s mail-order CD business. But how was it possible for her to record difficult works at such a dizzying rate? And if wasn’t her playing, who was it?

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

Riding through Detroit with the author of The Turner House.

The original article that inspired the movie Spotlight.

Meet Dr. Schnoz, the nose-sculpting YouTube king of Miami.

The story of Lisa S. Davis and Lisa S. Davis.

A visit to the ‘Castle’ where self-driving cars learn.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.

What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth.

After years of whispers in her Polish community, Anna finally learned the truth about her father. Then she went to Sri Lanka to find him.

After Brexit, the obsessions of Jake Fiennes could change how Britain uses its land.

The mentalist’s manipulation techniques give people too sophisticated to believe in the paranormal something quasi-scientific to hang on to.

The creator of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy offers advice to the Dartmouth class of 2014.

His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.

The author interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.

Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.

The mother of a child born with a deformed brain responds, heartbreakingly, to an academic study claiming that people are happier without kids.

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.

The future of Tesla.

“None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s truly crazy.”

President Lincoln worked very hard all his life. After he died, his corpse kept a gruelling travel schedule, too.

An oral history with former employees Sasha Frere-Jones, Alysia Abbott, Piotr Orlov, and Chris Wilcha.

Eric Coomer had an election-security job at Dominion Voting Systems. He also had posted anti-Trump messages on Facebook. What happened next ruined his life.