“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.

Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of Deadwood, it has given his work a new sense of urgency.

She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.

The case against “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.

“This baby was unviable, basically. That’s what they say. They say that the baby is ‘incompatible with life.’”

Exposure to the internet did not make us into a nation of yeoman mind-farmers (unless you count Minecraft). That people in the billions would self-assemble, and that these assemblies could operate in their own best interests, was … optimistic.

The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band.

On the curious life of Archibald Butt, confidant to President Taft and tragic victim of the sinking Titanic.

As much as the narrative of Butt’s heroism meant to the family, to the White House, to the military, it seems all too cinematic. The reality is that the experience was probably a great annoyance to him, right up until the moment it became a nightmare.

A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.

The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.

Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.

On excess, wealth, and teenage love.

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.

A profile of Tiger Woods at 21.

A journalist goes undercover in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum.

You learn to believe in your child’s existence. What happens when she’s killed by a piece of your daily environment?

A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.

At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.

How Rupert Murdoch’s empire of influence remade the world.

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.