Ian Parker on Tyler Clementi, the gay Rutgers student who committed suicide after discovering that his roommate, Dharun Ravi, was taping his sexual encounters.
The actress on the sometimes surprising tastes of movie-studio executives, and female characters who star in romantic comedies but do not exist in real life.
Burkhard Bilger on David Eagleman, a professor of neuroscience who became obsessed with studying the brain’s biological clocks after a near-fatal childhood accident.
Nick Paumgarten on Internet dating, from its beginnings as computerized quizzes to its current incarnation in the form of apps and Web sites like Match.
