The outing of a failed writer who spent years anonymously grinding axes on Wikipedia.

The meaning of the Eurovision Song Contest.

“The mythical image of Malick that has been built up over the last 30-odd years is, in essence, a creation of the same media corps with whom the filmmaker himself has continually chosen not to engage.”

An early profile of Justin Beiber.

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

“No one works better out of anguish at all; that’s an incredible literary conceit.”

The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

A profile of the country music legend.

On dissident filmmakers in Syria.

Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”

Fifty years ago, a gay, cross-dressing, black singer named Jackie Shane scored a surprise radio hit. A few years later, he disappeared.

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

Why our old narratives about race and culture “just don’t fit anymore.”

On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.

A profile of the spy writer.

“J.Crew employees reveal themselves by the nakedness of their ankles. It’s as if the company’s uniform, ambiently dictated by Lyons, is enforced only from the knees down.”

A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.

A profile of the Van Halen frontman.

A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.

An interview with a blotto Lee Marvin.

An investigation into a scholarly hoax.

Two decades later, unpacking a historic bust.

On Swedish game designer Markus Persson and his singular creation, Minecraft, which has sold over twenty million copies and earned Persson over a hundred million dollars last year.