She’s 80 now, working 13 hour days, and still won’t take so much as a reporter’s hand to cross the stream.

Squeamish though they might be about God, even the totally irreligious can find some comfort in praying.

Typee, the most popular book Melville published in his lifetime, was his memoir of Polynesia. Most of it was probably made up.

On Amaris Tyynismaa, the 14-year-old star runner who has Tourette’s.

On the difficult challenges faced by an auteur in Nigeria’s burgeoning Nollywood film economy.

The artist discusses her latest record, Biophilia, science and music education. 

Up until she developed a vocal-cord nodule a few years ago, Björk made a point of not investigating how that instrument worked. “With arrangements and lyrics,” she says, squinting over her coffee, “I work more with the left side of my brain. But my voice has always been very right brain. I didn’t try to analyze it at all. I didn’t even know until I started all this voice work, two years ago, what my range was. I didn’t want to let the academic side into that—I worried the mystery would go.”

A college president on the bizarre experience of being informed by NBC News that he had hired a war criminal to teach French.

An interview with Greil Marcus on the songs of Van Morrison and why people are afraid of imagined things.

A Holocaust detective story: could a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina really be Buchenwald artifact made of human remains?

Why did a veteran BBC on-air personality confess on camera to a mercy killing he did not commit?

An 18-month investigation proves reveals how easy it is to get away with murder in Baltimore.

What it takes to recover from a near-death brawl with a bear.

Tackling the science of cooking, one perfect french fry at a time.

“While its source remains something of a mystery, Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating.”

Wags Lending and the brave new world of of financing in “niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers.”

The fall of a famous anchor.

A profile of the New York Times White House correspondent.

A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.

How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa

How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.

He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson’s billion-dollar quest to make commercial space travel a reality.

The author spent a day with three men in a high-end security detail to find out how it feels to be safe.

How one man’s quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood.

When Swedish teenagers hacked the phone system and turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet.