A profile of the 17-year-old star.

On the veracity of documentary filmmaking.

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton.

How reading can lead to resilience in the most trying times.

The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.

A minute-by-minute account of one of the worst sailing disasters in American history.

An oral history of the Dr. Dre album.

On the barely regulated business of looking after kids.

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.

The mystery of the Brillante Virtuoso.

A history of the New York Times Styles section.

The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes

A profile of the actor.

How a tiny protest at the University of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.

Looking for answers while camping with an abusive father.

Has global warming made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?

A trip to India for total silence.

The history of the City of London Corporation, a “prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world.”

On the people who were working at Logan Airport when the hijacked flights departed:

They are the rarely noticed casualties of the terrorist attacks: the security guard, the ticket agent, the baggage handler on the ramp. They made it home that night, but with images they couldn’t shake, a pain uncomfortable to voice. They can’t believe it has been 10 years. They can’t believe it has only been 10 years.

The disappearance of the mysterious “Pakistani asset” that helped the CIA zero in on Bin Laden.

The first article in a two-part history of the Educational Testing Service, the institution behind the SAT.

One possible (if depressing) conclusion to take from this is that strategy is just an illusory abstraction that we have invented to give meaning to that which has none. We use it as a retrospective framing device to explain a complex series of events (of our own making but mostly of external provenance) that we do not understand. So maybe strategic theory is really just an gussied up form of conspiracy theory. We need to impose order on the world and believe that someone, somewhere, knows that the hell is going on.

In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently in a storm dumping a load of plastic floatee toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—to the open sea. This is their story.

Full six-part series on the rise and fall of Viktor Bout, the most notorious arms dealer of the modern era.

A brief history of churchyards, cemeteries, and the ghosts that haunt them.