On the unlikely survival (for the second time) of Kamaishi, Japan.

A profile of the up-and-coming New York politician, who at the time was toying with a run for mayor.

The disappearance of a legendary scavenger could have dire consequences for a swelling human population.

At work with Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter of choice for an entire generation of top-flight directors.

I felt, in some substantive yet elusive way, that I had had a hand in killing my mother. And so the search for a bed became a search for sanctuary, which is to say that the search for a bed became the search for a place; and of course by place I mean space, the sort of approximate, indeterminate space one might refer to when one says to another person, "I need some space"; and the fact that space in this context generally consists of feelings did not prevent me from imagining that the space-considered, against all reason, as a viable location; namely, my bedroom-could be filled, pretty much perfectly, by a luxury queen-size bed draped in gray-and-white-striped, masculine-looking sheets, with maybe a slightly and appropriately feminine ruffled bed skirt stretched about the box spring (all from Bellora in SoHo).

The web has revolutionized communications and commerce, but what does it mean for art?

Three primary reasons: A desire for vengeance, the sanitization of executions and, ironically, the reliability of DNA evidence.

A prescient take on what the US invasion of Iraq would mean for both countries.

The case for why a cup of joe is about to become a luxury item.

An investigation into the events surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s May 2011 arrest for sexual assault.

How prison changed the mother and militant who was sentenced to 75 years for her role in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck heist.

The Mexican novelist and activist talks about the role that the US plays in the hemisphere, and a joint future for North and South America.

We need your memory and your imagination or ours shall never be complete. You need our memory to redeem your past, and our imagination to complete your future. We may be here on this hemisphere for a long time. Let us remember one another. Let us respect one another. Let us walk together outside the night of repression and hunger and intervention, even if for you the sun is at high noon and for us at a quarter to twelve.

On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.

A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.

On the surprising radicalism of library music – “music that has been composed and recorded for commercial purposes.”

Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure.

We are all going to die. So what does it look like?

Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?

The dilemma of providing quality health care for undocumented immigrants, and how one city is attempting to solve it.

A UVA alum goes back for the first rush week since the Rolling Stone story.

Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.

Perhaps because your people have always hunted them. But also because there’s demand in New York fashion circles for their pelts.

A treatment for liver cancer gives the writer a fresh perspective on illness – and wellness.