The making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville.

The fall of CBS showrunner Peter Lenkov.

A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive.

On the downfall of ubiquitous accident law firm, Cellino & Barnes.

On the retirement of Ted Williams.

A profile of the gymnast.

Within the world of law enforcement, bounty hunting is something of an aberration. An accident arising from the combination of common law, frontier justice, chattel slavery, and capitalism. No other job is more American. Bounty hunting’s legality is a mishmash of confusing requirements, regulations, and certifications that vary widely by state.

A profile of the world’s top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

The story of a pair of murdered whooping cranes and just how difficult it is to save a endangered species.

The brilliant, tragic life of Hall of Fame second baseman Johnny Evers.

The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.

A profile of the hard-living, cop-dodging artist Dash Snow, published two years before his death of an overdose.

A professor of sociology at Columbia reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann.

The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.

The complicated case of Brigitte Harris, who, after years of abuse, accidentally killed her father by cutting off his penis.

“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.

Booker winner Howard Jacobson on the bumper crop of sex worker memoirs and what they say about our understanding of paid sex.

How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.

A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

"At the end of the cycle of Morning Glory, I was hailed as the greatest songwriter since Lennon and McCartney," Gallagher recalls. "Now, I know that I'm not, and I knew I wasn't then. But the perception of everybody since that period has been, 'What the fuck happened to this guy? Wasn't he supposed to be the next fucking Beatles?' I never said that I was the greatest thing since Lennon and McCartney … well, actually, I'm lying. I probably did say that once or twice in interviews. But regardless, look at it this way: Let's say my career had gone backwards. Let say this new solo album had been my debut, and it was my last two records that sold 20 million copies instead of the first two records. Had this been the case, all the other albums leading up to those last two would be considered a fucking journey. They would be perceived as albums that represent the road to greatness. But just because it started off great doesn't make those other albums any less of a journey. I'll use an American football analogy since we're in America: Let's say you're behind with two minutes to go and you come back to tie the game. It almost feels like you've won. Right? But let's say you've been ahead the whole game and you allow the opponent to tie things up in the final two minutes. Then it feels like you've lost. But the fact of the matter is it's still a fucking tie. The only difference is perception. And the fact of the matter is that Oasis sold 55 million records. If people think we were never good after the '90s, that's irrelevant."

How and why did 200 pages of the Aleppo Codex, “the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible,” go missing?

On his 80th birthday; how Archie Leach, “the Bristol-born son of a part-Jewish suit presser,” became the greatest leading man of his generation.

The life of Adolf Tolkachev, Soviet dissident and CIA spy.