An interview with the experimental filmmaker and Hollywood chronicler Kenneth Anger, 85.

On the psychological damage punitive isolation inflicts upon Guantánamo and American prisoners alike.

An interview with R. Crumb on how he adapted Genesis into comic form.

On the longstanding human fascination with a light source we could borrow but not share.

Can a $100,000 robot that makes a delicious crab bisque replace a real chef?

An interview with Maurice Sendak.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.

“Anytime I was called a New Journalist I winced a little with embarrassment.”

Dr. Fredric Brandt redefined cosmetic dermatology forever by bringing a smooth, plump, and ageless face to the masses.

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

A two-part story on Bill Gates and his revolutionary machine.

On the Toronto Islands, an ugly real estate battle forces neighbours to ask: How do we define family?

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

The comic answers some uncomfortable questions.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

How a self-taught doctor from Delhi cornered the black market in kidneys, building one of the world’s most lucrative organ-trading rings, until it all came crashing down.

A profile of the Hot 97 DJ a few months after “he told the truth about who he is, even if it’s not entirely clear—even to Mister Cee himself, even now, to this day—what exactly that truth is.”

Cassie Chadwick pulled her first con in 1870, at the age of 13. Over the next 30 years, she would scam her way to $633,000, about $16.5 million in today’s dollars.

How a Canadian used a Mohawk reservation’s lakes to smuggle tons of marijuana to stash houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, resulting in nearly a billion in profits, which he laundered through the Sinaloa Cartel.

Since the Syrian rebel leader Hassan Aboud joined ISIS, taking with him fighters and weapons, he has been behind a sprawling mix of battlefield action and crime.

The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.

A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.

Update 3/16/12: The roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been found guilty of hate crimes.