The surprising anti-monopolist origins of the world’s most popular board game.

A survey of the 20th century’s greatest horror writer’s afterlife of influence.

Examining the future of the massive social media site.

After a mass shooting, who cares for the coroners?

The science behind why high school sucks.

The gay influence on American cooking.

The afterlife of a thoughtless, cruel insult.

The process of decomposition, recounted in painstaking detail.

A childhood spent with the oboe.

On the work of Rachel Cusk.

On the NBA’s most modern avatar.

A former NBA player describes his own unraveling.

Gearing up for the fight against a new climate enemy.

Steidl, who is sixty-six, is known for fanatical attention to detail, for superlative craftsmanship, and for embracing the best that technology has to offer. "He is so much better than anyone,” William Eggleston, the American color photographer, told me, when I met him recently in New York. Steidl has published Eggleston for a decade; two years ago, he produced an expanded, ten-volume, boxed edition of “The Democratic Forest,” the artist’s monumental 1989 work. Eggleston passed his hand through the air, in a stroking gesture. “Feel the pages of the books,” he said. “The ink is in relief. It is that thick.”

Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.

On surf legend Eddie Aikau and the complicated history of Hawaii.

Voices from the inside of New York City’s infamous jail.

The debate over who’s responsible when a child kills.

On wearing a concealed handgun and how it changed the author’s worldview.

A trip to a grave in Damascus as shelling started in Homs.

In search of the perfect lie detector test.

On digital animators’ quest to capture the endlessly complex human face.

On the actress’s stellar year.

He doesn’t really know. Never really has, actually, and that’s the way he likes it.