A profile of Vova Galchenko, teenage juggling virtuoso and early viral star.

On two gay men in Pennsylvania who tried, and failed, to build a commune of their own.

On Keith Richards’ autobiography.

There’s some very sensible advice on how to take drugs, too.

On a comic offering portrayals of secular Muslims that American audiences rarely see.

A profile of Ernest Hemingway.

A profile of UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who has not found peace despite unprecedented success.

A free-ranging conversation between music writers Simon Reynolds and Greil Marcus.

An interview with Samin Nosrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, on fame, veganism, depression, and writing a new cookbook.

Understanding Joe Biden by way of his favorite historian.

Korean adoptees felt isolated and alone for decades. Then Facebook brought them together.

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

“Turns out your laptop—or camera or gaming system or gold necklace—may have a smidgen of Congo’s pain somewhere in it.”

After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.

Three Americans are held hostage in Iran for two years, much of it spent in solitary confinement.

A profile of comedian Leslie Jones, who made Saturday Night Live after 25 years as a road comic.

An investigation into America’s largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, where patients are held against their will to maximize profits.

One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.

A profile of Dennis Rodman today.

A profile of Model View Culture founder Shanley Kane.

A pair of gamblers and a glitch too good to last.

How an entire industry built itself convincing lead-paint poisoning victims to sign over settlement payments for a fraction of what they’re worth.

A civil trial of Officer Marco Proano, who shot Niko Husband in 2011, finds him not guilty. By accident.

A profile of under-fire Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein.

How Timothy Patrick Barrus, a white writer of gay erotica, reinvented himself a (wildly successful) Native American memoirist.

How investigators nabbed a key member of a group called “Lost Boy.”