A profile of video game artist Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Bros.

It’s now routine for corporations to outsource the task of generating new ideas. A look at the consulting firms who meet that need.

A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.

The pecking order of All-Star Weekend sex-with-basketball-player-or-rapper hopefuls.

How the director of Midnight Special thinks strategically about his art and his career.

Over a million people are buried in a potter’s field on Hart Island. Here are some of their stories.

Jacqueline Kennedy, William Manchester, and the battle over the authorized account of J.F.K.’s assassination.

On the downfall of Deutsche Bank.

The little-understood history of the whales and how barnacles may be the key to understanding how giant mammals evolved underwater.

An excerpt from the best-selling true crime book of all time.

Although she is one of the richest writers in the country, her finances are a mess.

Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?

It was the failed dream of the heir to the Frank-o-Matic sausage-link machinery fortune.

Dolphins may have the capacity for mourning, and elephants sometimes bury their dead.

How a Pulitzer-finalist, 34-part-series of investigative journalism vanishes from the internet.

Neale McShane’s jurisdiction in the Australian Outback is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. He patrols it alone.

Seven months ago, an underdog Brazilian soccer team boarded a plane to play the game of their lives. They never made it.

The origins of the misunderstood agency.

A Dickensian profession that can still pay upwards of $650,000 per year.

If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

Millions of American children were placed in the Catholic orphanage system. Some didn’t make it out alive.

What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.

A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.

A month-long tour inside L.A.’s cultish world of wellness.