The Great Read

The literary titan is still publishing books, and still pushing envelopes, at 83. But you will not see him in the United States anytime soon.

By Scott Cacciola

MaryBeth Lewis’s desire to be a new mom again, at 65 years old, led to a custody battle like no other.

By David Gauvey Herbert

Aaron Greenspan was once a promising entrepreneur. He has spent the last two decades lobbing grenades at the country’s most powerful tech moguls.

By Noam Scheiber

During the war, a Ukrainian boy lost his home, his father and his friends. Could he find new buddies at a camp in the mountains?

By Kim Barker, Oleksandra Mykolyshyn and Oksana Parafeniuk

Helen DeWitt’s bewildering co-written novel, “Your Name Here,” took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove her to despair.

By Alexandra Alter

An unlikely twist in the investigation of a killing in 1983 that still haunts a small town in Oregon.

By Emma Goldberg

His gritty novels have spawned a cottage industry and become a rallying point for fellow veterans. “Cry Havoc” is the latest.

By Elisabeth Egan

Inside the effort to pull minors from ‘the Blade,’ one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States.

By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn

A mother in Florida filed a lawsuit against an A.I. start-up, alleging its product led to her son’s death. The company’s defense raises a thorny legal question.

By Jesse Barron

Oz Pearlman has revealed Joe Rogan’s A.T.M. code on air and entertained N.F.L. stars. Now the manosphere’s favorite magician wants more.

By John Hendrickson and Timothy Mulcare

There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won’t cover it. Many doctors won’t prescribe it. It’s become a cultural phenomenon.

By Susan Dominus

From beers at a Bangkok bar to a climb up Mount Omine in Japan, The Times traced the pivotal months before Mr. Mangione was charged with killing UnitedHealthcare’s C.E.O.

By Hurubie Meko, Katie J.M. Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Hisako Ueno and Noriko Hayashi

Nearly four years after they bought an out-of-service ferryboat for $280,100, their plans for a floating event space may be running aground.

By Steven Kurutz

A trip to the Badlands with my 8-year old offered lessons in boyhood — and manhood.

By Sam Graham-Felsen

It went from one of the worst zoos in America to a beloved menagerie filled with disabled and elderly native species. Now it may close for good.

By Christopher Maag and Ben Cleeton

How to lead an artistic life and be part of a family is a tension he has only recently faced in life and now, onscreen, for a film about his comedian parents.

By Melena Ryzik and Thea Traff

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

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

When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.

By Zachary Small and Caroline Gutman

Very few people know what it’s like to recover, physically and emotionally, from a shark bite. But some of the ones who do are ready to help.

By Victoria Kim

“Odd Lots” goes deep on lentils in Saskatchewan, the global tractor supply and trucking markets. Is it the skeleton key to understanding this strange economic moment?

By Benjamin Wallace and Hiroko Masuike

Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying.

By Stephanie Nolen and Federico Rios Escobar

Mitchell Jackson was fired from a high-profile journalism job at 25. Now he represents some of the most divisive figures in America, including the right-wing podcaster Candace Owens.

By Alex Vadukul

Trisomy 18 is normally fatal within weeks of birth. But some parents are getting more time — with surgeries, luck and an incredible amount of effort.

By Sheri Fink and Stephanie Sinclair

For “Chief of War,” the actor went from playing fictional superheroes to a real one in this epic passion project set in Hawaii.

By Alexis Soloski and Magdalena Wosinska

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy.

By Joseph Dragovich

Over its several decades, the show’s setting has always been both realistic and idealistic. And it has evolved, much like the New York City streets that inspired it.

By Anna Kodé and Winnie Au

Glenn Valley Foods tried to verify every hire through a federal system. After a raid, the company is wondering how it can keep going.

By Eli Saslow and Erin Schaff

Kai Lee Mykels often said her goal was to make straight men uneasy, but that was a gag. Her creator had a bigger goal in mind.

By Mike Wilson and Rachel Woolf

Therapists are cautious about sharing personal information. When they fall ill or die unexpectedly, the shock can be shattering.

By Ellen Barry

The rickety, beloved Delacorte Theater, built in 1962, leaked and was popular with raccoons. Now it’s a modern facility and still charmingly wild.

By Michael Kimmelman

A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find.

By Veronique Greenwood