The murder of an Olympic champion and the autopsy that shook a city.

Memories of living with the writer Andrew Lytle late in his life.

A conversation on the “bedeviling sorts of indeterminacies one encounters the deeper one drills.”

Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, cocaine, and the making of The Blues Brothers.

On the journey of 24-year-old Jose Fernandez, the Cuban defector turned Major League all-star, who died Sunday.

A long stroll through a Staten Island cemetery leads to the story of the 19th-century free-black oystermen who settled Sandy Ground.

Forty years after the dirty wars and Pinochet’s coup, photographer David Burnett journeys back to Chile to visit the subject of his most famous image.

A profile of Avishek Sengupta, who drowned at the Walk the Plank obstacle during an endurance race last year.

Did the Obama Administration ignore evidence that someone other than Assad could be behind the sarin attacks?

A profile of computational biologist Eric Schadt, the guy who’s figuring out what comes next after the Human Genome Project.

21,000 words on the watchers and watched.

On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.

The story of the Delmar family, told through what they watch on TV.

The former governor of Massachusetts wants to remove the stigma from electric shock treatments. They saved Kitty’s life.

The adventures and controversies of the avant-garde poet Kenneth Goldsmith, who believes plagiarism is an art form.

The history of canis lupus in America, up to the present day.

“After 14 years I finally reported him. In the eyes of the law, my biggest mistake was not fearing him more.”

How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history.

On a U.S. soldier burned to the verge of death and the virtual-reality video game doctors used as treatment when he came home.

The history of “‘50s-era market-tested USDA White Pan Loaf No. 1.”

A 7,000-word anatomy of the chaotic 9 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its health care ruling.

In the wake of 9/11, terrorist networks moved their recruitment and training efforts online, giving birth to Jihad-geeks like Irhabi_007.

At three NYC comedy theater/schools, students and students-turned-instructors (a “benign pyramid scheme”) pursue the elusive simulacrum of human interaction that is longform improvisation.

How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.

A interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.