The Great Read

A class-action lawsuit, spurred by an investigative series in The Times, came to a close, having helped thousands of mentally ill residents of adult homes.

By Clifford J. Levy

The group was passionately vegan, mostly transgender and highly educated. Seven of them are now in jail. This is the story of one who did not survive.

By Shaila Dewan

After losing his house in the Palisades fire, Spencer Pratt has gone from the archetype of celebrity emptiness to community activist — and become a magnet for Republican politicians.

By Conor Dougherty

At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen.

By Julia Halperin and Marcus Maddox

A family reckons with the devastation left behind after a former N.F.L. player showed up on their property.

By Juliet Macur

Kat Timpf got pregnant, got breast cancer, then got back to work on the political comedy show “Gutfeld!” — all as a culture war brews over ambition, motherhood and women’s health.

By Amanda Hess

The Broadway play “Punch” retells the true story of a fatal blow and how restorative justice brought healing to the parents and to the young man who threw the punch.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

For years, John Alle complained to Los Angeles officials about homelessness. Now, fed up, he’s trying to make a dent in the problem on his own.

By Eli Saslow and Erin Schaff

Amy Griffin wrote a book based on recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Oprah Winfrey and a slew of celebrities promoted it. Then questions arose.

By Katherine Rosman and Elisabeth Egan

Norma Nazario didn’t understand what had motivated her 15-year-old son to subway surf. Then she found his phone.

By Callie Holtermann

She was the ‘big sister’ he hoped to impress. He seemed inexperienced to her. Now, they’re the faces of a political movement — and New York is its test case.

By Matt Flegenheimer

In “The Smashing Machine,” the actor gives a new kind of performance, one that required him to face his fears.

By Sam Anderson and Jack Davison

In 2023, Chance Comanche was playing some of the best basketball of his life. His teammates thought he was on his way to the N.B.A. Instead, he was accused of murder.

By David Gardner

The caller ID said “Chase Bank,” and the man on the line said I might be a victim of fraud. His supervisor would explain.

By Michael Wilson

After three decades in California, Narciso Barranco was arrested by agents while weeding outside an IHOP, stirring outrage and a fight to stop his deportation.

By Miriam Jordan

Some residents of the Pierre claim that Howard Lutnick, who owns the penthouse, was part of a plot to sell off this symbol of Manhattan glamour and wealth.

By Michael Rothfeld, Maureen Farrell and Jodi Kantor

As Cat Stevens, he helped define the singer-songwriter. After converting to Islam, he became a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all.

By Grayson Haver Currin

Robert Munsch wrote “The Paper Bag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But his stories are slipping away.

By Katie Engelhart

The estate of the best-selling author, which has intellectual property rights to “ER,” and the creators of the new hit TV show are waging a legal battle over whether it’s a stealth reboot.

By Nicholas Kulish

Maine’s Board of Pesticides Control says two summer residents poisoned a neighbor’s trees so the couple, both Martha Stewart associates, could have a harbor view. They deny it.

By Elizabeth Williamson and Sophie Park

At a school with a basketball-themed curriculum, students were “dreaming big.” But could they find a buyer?

By Troy Closson

Damar Hamlin’s heart stopped beating after a tackle on “Monday Night Football” in 2023. He wants to be known for more than that.

By David Waldstein

In a new memoir and documentary, the actor known for “Two and a Half Men,” “Platoon” and a debauched life that nearly killed him puts it all out there.

By Dina Gachman

Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump pardoned him in January.

By Ryan Mac and David Yaffe-Bellany

After years of training (clowning, Butoh and more), the longtime friends take on Samuel Beckett’s towering drama on Broadway.

By Melena Ryzik and Dana Scruggs

In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.

By David Segal and Daniel Weiss

Ahn Hak-sop was captured during the Korean War by the South and imprisoned for more than 40 years. Now 95, he wants to return to the North to die.

By Choe Sang-Hun

After making millions in a job he came to hate, Jonathan Kleisner joined the Fire Department as a rookie paramedic at the age of 41. Now he’s determined to be the best rescue medic anywhere.

By Christopher Maag and Sean Jackson

As the sun sets on another summer, John Hersh is wrapping up his 10th year of rooftop serenades.

By Elisabeth Egan

After she lost her son to an overdose, Serena Fallon went on a quest to hold someone accountable for his death.

By Michael Corkery and Dave Sanders

A 2012 documentary asked if Jacqueline Siegel was a benefactor or victim of American greed. A new musical starring Kristin Chenoweth raises doubts.

By Zachary Small

Tucked among exclusive real estate, a family’s 18-foot-wide strip of land is not just an oceanside parking spot. It’s their legacy.

By Steven Kurutz and Vincent Alban

The former college swimmer has used her race against Lia Thomas, a trans athlete, to propel her career as an influential, and unsparing, activist.

By Ruth Graham

On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican.

By Shawn McCreesh

America’s toughest trainer was a proud Hollywood liberal. Now, she’s become a defining voice of the MAHA era.

By Molly Langmuir

Calabasas residents thought it would be easy to keep wildfire ash from being trucked to their local landfill. They were wrong.

By Nathaniel Rich

The diaristic pop-soul singer is self-loathing, self-aggrandizing, irreverent, evasive and in-your-face. At 24, she’s finally arrived. But the ride is just beginning.

By Joe Coscarelli

Fifteen years after a combat photographer lost his legs to a land mine, he returned to the place in Afghanistan where it happened.

By Joao Silva

Romantasy is propping up the fiction market. Thanks to a generation that grew up reading about a boy wizard.

By Alexandra Alter

The shanty boat was bound for New Orleans, but the destination mattered less than the challenges, chance encounters and lessons learned along the way.

By Rick Rojas and Annie Flanagan

Medicaid pays for most of the in-home care that lets disabled Americans live independently. Will coming cuts put that care in jeopardy?

By Marcela Valdes

As their magic act hits 50 years, they’re bigger than ever. They say their secret is not to socialize. But misdirection is also their love language.

By Jason Zinoman and Roger Kisby

Melinda Farina, known as the Beauty Broker, sends Hollywood actresses and everyday women to doctors around the globe. In her world, the knives are always out.

By Jacob Bernstein

Thunder Ranch is one of the best-known shooting schools in American gun culture, offering firearms as a way to change your life when all else fails.

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff

When it comes to mass-participation events, would-be record setters are finding it harder than ever to draw a crowd. But it’s still fun to try.

By Lauren Larson

Robert Longo was a little nervous about opening a big show in Denmark this year.

By Carl Swanson and D’Angelo Lovell Williams

On Instagram, the artist Joseph Awuah-Darko asked the world to invite him to dinner before he ended his life. More than 150 meals later, he is still going.

By David Segal and Ciril Jazbec

The daytime TV fixture seems to have taken a rightward turn. But don’t call it politics.

By Matt Flegenheimer

Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.

By Kashmir Hill and Dylan Freedman

These retired women in Texas have been through infertility, illness, layoffs, addiction and disappointing marriages. Now they are trying to create a utopia just for themselves.

By Lisa Miller and Shelby Tauber