If Annie Leibovitz sold her work through the traditional channels of the art world, she would have amassed a small fortune. But at the tail end of a career that has snubbed art galleries and collectors, she is destitute.

“Will you show me all of the man-in-the-street, sympathetic, mayoral candidates? The last time I met one of them on the subway was a long time ago. Let’s not get too carried away.”

A journey through Venezuela, once the richest country in South America, but now collapsing under the weight of the world’s highest rates of inflation and violent crime.

The rise and fall of the new oligarchs, who raided the Russian state. When Putin came to power most fled, but not Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “The other oligarchs, when they saw the fuzz, knew they should run. But Khodorkovsky forgot.”

“I hate classical music: not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in a theme park of the past. It cancels out the possibility that music in the spirit of Beethoven could still be created today.”

On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan:

The girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.

On the hanging of James Murphy, murderer.

On the sudden death of an up-and-coming rapper.

Life on the other side of the laptop.

The harrowing first ascent of the mountain’s West Ridge.

The bizarre battle over the Call of Duty video game franchise.

What remains of the past’s cutting edge.

The author, who died last week, tells the story of his guns.

The legacy of the Scopes trial on one Tennesse town.

The costs of a life spent reporting on spies.

Behind the scenes with the creator of Black-ish.

The story of Aiden Sinclair, the “grifter magician.”

The troubling final years of Mickey Rooney’s life.

On the profound power of the placebo.

A conversation on the Times Square of the ’50s and ’60s.

The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.

An essay on the evolving narrative of martyrdom in the Islamist and secular worlds.

Meet Ben Sherwood, the new head of the Disney/ABC Television Group.

The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

Old India and new, viewed through the prism of the writer’s hometown.