On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.

Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

On the trail of a group of thieves stealing the fanciest wine out of San Francisco’s fanciest restaurants.

The writer (Aaron Sorkin), director (David Fincher), and actors (Jesse Eisenberg & Justin Timberlake) of The Social Network on dramatizing the real story of a 20 year old into “the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies.”

The pandemic of violence against women, the threats online, and the harassment on the streets are ongoing. But women’s voices assumed an unprecedented power in 2014.

In 1966, Anton LaVey introduced the world to the Church of Satan. The 1980s saw a “Satanic Panic” in the form of abuse charges brought against child-care workers and suburban parents. Today, the author joins a group of Satanists for afternoon tea at the church’s global headquarters in a “bland New York college town.”

When I was 27, I quit my job to travel and ski-bum, and by that point I had managed to save a small sum that could float me for a year. I called it my fuck-you money, because if I was ever in a situation I didn’t like—stuck in a job or with a boyfriend I wanted to leave—I could say fuck you and go. Living in ski towns is how I learned the dirtbag lifestyle, and to my surprise I took to it naturally and with enthusiasm.

Dillie Nerios’s job is to convince people food is a right, not a luxury.

New research on children’s behavior.

The idea that a young child could have psychopathic tendencies remains controversial among psychologists. Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University, has argued that psychopathy, like other personality disorders, is almost impossible to diagnose accurately in children, or even in teenagers — both because their brains are still developing and because normal behavior at these ages can be misinterpreted as psychopathic.

On the future of Britain’s finances.

An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.

A profile of Sage Kimzey, the 20-year-old king of rodeo.

The mysterious death of one of college basketball’s most promising coaches.

An accidental evening with Yeats, in the spring of 1937.

The life of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen.

On the experience of having a stroke.

On the life and afterlife of Che Guevara.

The stories of a record-setting chain of transplants.

A profile of William Heirens, the convicted “Lipstick Killer” of Chicago, who died this week.

A profile of Grace Coddington, creative director of Vogue and break-out star of The September Issue.