On the business of selling books.

Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.

A profile of Norman Lear, the producer behind All in the Family and The Jeffersons, who is still making TV at age 94.

The neurologist explores the mystery of hallucinations.

Inside the economics of scientific publishing, an industry that’s somehow nearly as profitable as film and has changed the course of science in the process.

She has convinced her followers she is a pretty-in-pink naïf, an escort, an unhinged ex, an office drone, and, most recently, an expectant mother. None of it is real.

Reimagining the sound and slang of Los Angeles.

Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!

A profile of the youngest Black woman in Congress.

She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.

On the rise of alt meat and the decline of cattle.

The CEO is 32. The CFO is 28. Their startup is the second-largest burger chain in the country.

An oral history of the Strokes.

The story of a Ponzi schemer who became the mark.

A profile of Montana Senator Jon Tester.

A profile of the Golden State Warriors head coach.

All violence is not like all other violence. Every Jewish death is not like every other Jewish death. To believe otherwise is to revive the old typological thinking about Jewish history, according to which every enemy of the Jews is the same enemy, and there is only one war, and it is a war against extinction, and it is a timeless war.

Aging, enhancement, and the hormone.

In Northern Albania, vengeance is as likely a form of restitution as anything the criminal-justice system can offer.

Black people formed one of the largest militias in the U.S. Now its leader is in prosecutors’ crosshairs.

A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.

“Way before Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, the enigmatic blonde bombshell was famous for being famous, perpetually driving the streets of Hollywood in that pink Corvette. But her true identity has remained secret all these years … until now.”

Selections from the leaked documents about the war in Afghanistan portray a military effort that is ineffective and frequently absurd. (Part of the NYT War Logs series.)

A profile of Damon Lawner and his mansion.

What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity? Often the answer is involuntary confinement in a state psychiatric hospital—with no end in sight.