The Great Read

The Great Storm of 1987 was a forecasting blunder that left at least 18 people dead, felled 15 million trees and caused a billion pounds’ worth of damage.

By Nazaneen Ghaffar

An acclaimed researcher is an expert at explaining complicated problems. Now she has to confront the most vexing question: What is happening to her?

By John Branch and Sophie Park

A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

In rural Texas, just 40 miles apart, a paramedic and a former small-town mayor got caught up on two sides of a digital “civil war.”

By Eli Saslow and Desiree Rios

As armies and revolutions came and went, neighbors became foes and families spoke different languages. Here’s how one small town stood at the center of history.

By Shannon Sims and Matteo de Mayda

Mordechi Rosenfeld, known as Modi, already has the synagogue crowd. Now he wants the “Goyim, gays and theys,” too.

By Lisa Lerer

Young people in Nepal rose up against corruption and inequality. But they say they did not expect the bloodshed, arson and government downfall that followed.

By Hannah Beech and Atul Loke

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ has built a delirious new culture of consumption — and trapped users in a vortex of debt.

By Amy X. Wang

When it came to using her life in her work, the artist Lee Lozano went about as far as a person can go.

By Sasha Weiss

Sam Terblanche was just 20 years old. Can a busy E.R. handle the hardest cases?

By Lisa Miller