The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

A profile of the Bronx immigrant family on the other end of your Chinese takeout menu.

The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”

A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began.

An oral history of the disaster:

Someone said to me, or maybe I read it, that the problem of Chernobyl presents itself first of all as a problem of self understanding. That seemed right. I keep waiting for someone intelligent to explain it to me.

The origin story of the C.I.A.’s covert drone war, which began with the 2004 killing of a Pashtun militant, the result of a secret deal for access to Pakistani airspace.

Lance Stephenson, the latest in a long line of Coney Island basketball prodigies, carries a burden none of his predecessors did: restoring New York City’s reputation as the hoops capital of the world.

Bruce Wisan received one of the toughest assignments ever thrust upon an accountant: to take control of the assets (and by proxy, followers) of the polygamist Mormon breakaway sect, F.L.D.S., after their prophet, Warren Jeffs, went on the lam and their compound was raided.

The anatomy of a collapse.

The economics of being a young writer.

The science of sleeplessness.

The story of Lilly Grossman’s genome.

The story of a suicide.

On the mountain lions of Los Angeles.

On the life and death of Elliott Smith.

On the politics of North Carolina.

The story of a professional assassin.

On feminism and the limitations of outrage online.

The story of Chyna’s final days.