A conversation about a new art form called “creative journalism,” conducted the same month In Cold Blood was published.

An interview with Talese on his career and daily writing routine.

An interview with Katherine Boo about how you cover the world’s poorest.

An essay on motivation.

Notes for the next generation.

And interview with The New Yorker’s John McPhee about how his style has evolved and his routine has endured.

A manifesto from one of the first professional bloggers on a new “golden age of journalism.”

On his enduring relevance.

A scholarly look at the 2004 hit.

A transcript of an interview timed to the release of Jay-Z’s book, Decoded.

An early profile.

David Johnson’s unrequited correspondence with Jay-Z.

The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.

The history of safety crises in football, why this one is different, and how it could change the game.

Searching for proof that football will endure.

The demise of a Pro Bowl safety, whose last wish before shooting himself in the chest was for his brain to be sent to the NFL’s brain bank.

A profile of Dr. Ann McKee: preeminent neuropathologist, Packers fan, football’s “only hope.”

How different are dogfighting and football?

Just over a decade ago, Specter set out to answer this question: How did Lance Armstrong manage the greatest comeback in sports history?

An academic ghostwriter explains his trade.

In 1969, the sports establishment was wrestling with whether to embrace performance-enhancing drugs, decry them, or look the other way.

AshleyMadison.com and the business of infidelity.

The story of the MIT Blackjack Team.

A quiz show scandal and its aftermath, as told by its star.

There are enough stories about steroids in baseball to fill an entire collection. But there’s only one story about steroids and trying to interview a down-and-out Jose Canseco.

The unpleasant, impossible task of the dealing with the infamous former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.

A profile of Steven T. Florio, then-president and CEO of Condé Nast Publications.

Taibbi goes after New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for both his politics and his prose.

Ostensibly a review of several releases on the TED Books imprint, this becomes an evisceration of the entire TED-talk culture of pop intellectualism.

A look at the internal culture at Microsoft under Steve Ballmer.

How Zion, Ill., a fundamentalist Christian settlement with a population of 6,250, created one of the most popular stations in the country during the early days of radio.

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and modern media.

An oral history of WFAN, the first all-sports talk radio station.

A profile of Michael Savage.

On the BBC radio addresses of E.M. Forster.

A profile of Ira Glass a few years into This American Life.

On Beck’s rise, pre-fall.

Talese never got an interview with Ol’ Blue Eyes, but, as he told his editor, after three months of reporting he may have gotten something more elusive: “the truth about the man.”

Searching for the hermetic media giant.

Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage—Asian guru and secret oxygen chamber in tow.

A pilgrimage to J.D. Salinger’s New Hampshire home.

Searching for Kirk Johnson, whose ass was one of the Internet’s earliest memes.

Reading this interview with Kevin Rose will make your stomach hurt.

The autopsy of the Web’s once-dominant photo site.

Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Didn’t turn out that way.

The story of a major music industry opportunity missed.

One of the most valuable cars in the world crashes on the Pacific Coast Highway. Its owner claims to be an anti-terrorism officer. In fact, he’s a former executive at a failed software company—and a career criminal. The unraveling of an epic con.

How what was once one of the most popular websites on Earth—with ambitions to redefine music, dating, and pop culture—became a graveyard of terrible design and failed corporate initiatives.

On Suck.com, the Web’s first daily-updated site.

How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

The story of a young man killed in Juárez.

How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.

The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the faceless cartels that once employed him.

A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.

Cracking down on corruption in Tijuana.

The struggle to put the drug war into context.

The final years of “Rock Around the Clock” singer Bill Haley.

How what was once one of the most popular websites on Earth—with ambitions to redefine music, dating, and pop culture—became a graveyard of terrible design and failed corporate initiatives.

The story of an Idaho pizza delivery boy turned weed kingpin.

How an idealistic young recruit became part of a cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops in Brooklyn.

At 25, Stephen Glass was a reporter wunderkind, regularly filing incredible pieces for the largest magazines. When suspicion fell on his sources, things started to really get strange. It wasn’t just sources and organizations he was inventing, but whole stories.

The end of the line for world’s most notorious weapons trafficker.

The crumbling mythology of the beloved Minnesota Twin.

On Suck.com, the Web’s first daily-updated site.

The Facebook COO on her generation’s failures and the continuing gender gap in American business and politics.

The author comments on the medium of the graduation cliché while still advancing it.

The doctor and New Yorker writer on embracing the shortcomings of expertise.

Speaking to a group that started their college lives in 2000, the host of The Daily Show embraces how difficult the real world is.

Former Washington Post opinion page editor Greenfield on not being overwhelmed by the past in the search for a “better truth.”

A young couple’s story.

On a child diagnosed with autism.

The long, happy, surprising life of 77-year-old Donald Gary Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism.

Should autism be celebrated? A look at the neurodiversity movement.

Autistic individuals have great difficulty breaking into many professions. One exception may be computer programming, where the difficulty of forming emotional attachments and communicating is not necessarily a problem.

As part of his obsessive search for evidence of UFOs, Gary McKinnon worked his way into thousands of government computers. The U.S. charged him with terrorism. Doctors diagnosed him with Asperger’s.

A young man, newly out to his parents, undergoes “ex-gay” therapy.

A rugby legend makes history.

On gay life in Saudi Arabia, where coming out is not an option.

How parents and communities are scrambling to adapt as kids start identifying as gay earlier and earlier.

A 32-year-old lets go.

Getting to the truth in the story Tyler Clementi, a gay student at Rutgers, who committed suicide and was spied on by his roommate Dhaurn Ravi. Shortly after this article was published, Ravi was convicted of hate crimes.

A father and his daughter’s brain tumor.

How Marv Marinovich’s plan to engineer his son into the greatest quarterback of all time backfired.

The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: “the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear”; “there is nothing like a fresh burn”; and “always wear white to the face.”

Paul Wayment made a profound mistake, left his 2-year-old son alone in his truck as he tracked deer in the wilderness. The boy was gone when he returned. The story of a collective struggle to find a just punishment.

Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old autistic son struggle to stay alive. As night falls, the dad comes to a devastating realization—if they remain together, they’ll drown together.

On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.

It’s often said one should not speak ill of the dead. At Richard Nixon’s passing, Thompson chose not to observe the custom.

In an odd twist of fate, the author predeceased the subject, Elizabeth Taylor, by six years.

White, several years past the publication of Stuart Little, finds himself “in the role of pig’s friend and physician,” but also its chronicler.

How do you memorialize a monster?

The case against the New York Times post-Sept. 11 series, “Portraits of Grief.”

Mr. Miller, a Canadian blogger, published this posthumously.

A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never make it as a performer and then does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.

Allen, a huge basketball fan, wrote this profile of his favorite player.

Didion on what she calls Allen’s “serious” movies.

Allen, in his own words, on his work.

A sympathetic profile, written as Allen hit 70.

Lessons learned from the complete Allen catalog, save Midnight in Paris.

On heading home for Thanksgiving.

A comatose Worcester girl is the catalyst for a string of miracles and becomes a tourist attraction.

What really happened at the World Trade Organization protests.

Cardinal Bernard Law knew as early as 1984 John Geoghan was molesting children. The priest would not be defrocked for 14 years.

The jury made a mistake when it convicted Abdul Raheem.

What’s a suburban soccer mom who was once fervently anti-drug doing running a business growing and selling pot?

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast—and was nearly eaten.

Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was so prolific that even he doesn’t know how many he killed.

Sixteen years ago, William Dranginis saw Bigfoot. He’s still trying to prove it.

Three weeks after Hannah Emily Upp, a 23-year-old Spanish teacher, disappeared while on a run, she was found alive, floating in New York Harbor. Upp had no idea how she got there.

On the Holocaust origins of a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina.

Odessa High School students know her as “Betty,” a ghost that haunts the auditorium at night. But there’s more to the story.

On Joe Francis—creator of “Girls Gone Wild,” assaulter of reporters, creep extraordinaire.

He’s the first kid to be featured on the side of a milk carton—and his father thinks he knows who abducted him from a New York City street in 1979.

From “comely heiress” to “armed terrorist,” an overview of the Patty Hearst kidnapping published weeks after her debut as a bank robber.

Meet Rick Strawn, the man who’ll abduct your problem child for a fee.

Rohde was kidnapped while reporting in Afghanistan. His story—in five parts—in his own words.

Elizabeth Smart, age 14, was kidnapped from her bedroom in a Salt Lake City suburb. She was found nine months later with an itinerant preacher and his wife. Theories on why it took so long.

Several American men working in the oil industry are kidnapped on the job in Ecuador.

Did Bruno Hauptmann really kidnap the Lindbergh baby? An overview of the case amidst a bunch of arguing scholars.

A suddenly haunting profile of Joe Paterno, living legend.

An 11-month investigation ends with a booster, now in prison for a Ponzi scheme, going public with details of how he spent millions on college athletes from 2002 to 2010.

The gambler responsible for a point-shaving scandal at Boston College, now a government witness, offers a nuts-and-bolts explanation of how one goes about fixing college sports.

An infamous article on the social dynamics on the Duke campus—it opens at a foam party thrown by a frat—published at the height of the lacrosse team scandal.

A profile of UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, who at the time appeared to be losing his 19-year-long battle with the NCAA.

The case for paying college athletes.

A profile of Marlon Brando, age 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.

A “fanatical Lynch fan from way back,” David Foster Wallace visits the set of Lost Highway, never actually talks to the director, and writes a profile.

Inside the five-year (and counting) production of the Ilya Khrzhanovsky film Dau.

In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made:

The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real-life mob.

An oral history of Goodfellas.

How Warren Beatty seduced the studios into making the comedy Ishtar, which set the modern bar for cinematic debacles.

A profile of the late actor-turned NRA president.

Adapting from his book of the same name, Chivers traces how the design and proliferation of small arms, originating from the Pentagon and the Russian army, rerouted the 20th century.

Most military experts agree that robots, not people, will inevitably do the fighting in ground wars. In Tennessee, a high-end gunsmith is already there. The story of Jerry Baber and his robot army.

How two twentysomethings, equipped with the Internet and weed, ruled the lucrative world of weapons trading … for a while.

On America’s relationship with the right to bear arms, from the founding fathers to the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan.

The author sits down with notorious (and recently convicted) arms dealer Viktor Bout, Bout’s brother, and a close friend.

In the days after 9/11, Mark Stroman went on a revenge killing spree in Texas. Rais Bhuiyan survived and, a decade later, tried to stop Stroman’s execution.

On one of the great final acts in sports history.

On the self-inflicted torture of Rick Barry.

On the brilliance, and elusiveness, of the great Knicks point guard.

The most successful player in league history, Bill Russell, was also its most candid.

A rare glimpse of Kobe Bryant’s nonstaged private life.

The story of Billy Ray Bates, who had the talent to be an all-time great, but drank himself out of the league and ended up playing in the Philippines, where he had a few wild years before booze ended his career for good.

On the royal family.

On being waterboarded.

On the cult of Winston Churchill and his legacy in the aftermath of 9/11.

An early foreign report on the state of the African continent.

An excerpt from his memoir Hitch-22, about his dreadful years at boarding school.

Dispatches revealing the March 1968 murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.

How the racism of white players and coaches ruined the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.

An eyewitness account of Robert Kennedy’s assassination.

On Van Morrison’s grounbreaking album, which was released in November 1968.

From the Apollo 8 flight journal.

The speech Martin Luther King, Jr delivered the day before he died.