On the psychological considerations behind breast augmentation.

During World War I, surgeon Harold Gillies and sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd created masks for disfigured soldiers. Gillies’ work, especially, served as the basis for modern surgical techniques.

A profile of the controversial “Dr. Schnoz,” author of My Beautiful Mommy, a children’s book about plastic surgery, and the doctor behind “Operation Chuppah,” which gave Orthodox Jewish women free nose jobs to attract husbands.

After learning that his twin girls will be born with cleft palates, Chernoff and his wife begin the long process of preparing for corrective surgery.

Plastic surgery on the parts most people don’t see.

“Hillary Clinton was never a shy person.”

Two biographies of Hillary Clinton do not get us any closer to understanding her.

On Clinton’s Arab Spring.

GROSS: I am just trying to clarify so I can understand.

CLINTON: No, I don't think you are trying to clarify. I think you're trying to say that, you know, I used to be opposed and now I'm in favor and I did it for political reasons. And that's just flat wrong. So let me just state what I feel like you are implying and repudiate it. I have a strong record. I have a great commitment to this issue and I am proud of what I've done and the progress we're making.

The drawbacks of being the front-runner.

There’s nothing simple about this candidacy—or candidate.

A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never make it as a performer and then does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.

Allen, a huge basketball fan, wrote this profile of his favorite player.

Didion on what she calls Allen’s “serious” movies.

Allen, in his own words, on his work.

A sympathetic profile, written as Allen hit 70.

Lessons learned from the complete Allen catalog, save Midnight in Paris.