The New Yorker

World Without End

No Man’s Sky lets virtual travellers explore eighteen quintillion unique planets. Raffi Khatchadourian reports.

We Know How You Feel

Raffi Khatchadourian on Affectiva, a startup that is developing emotion-sensing machines.

The Death Treatment

Rachel Aviv on the controversial work of Dr. Wim Distelmans, and how Belgium has embraced euthanasia as a humanist issue.

Tears of the Sun

William Finnegan on the brutal gold-mining conditions in La Rinconada, the world’s highest human settlement, in the ice-capped Peruvian Andes.

Sight Unseen

Kathryn Schulz reviews Philip Ball’s book “Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen,” and considers the history of human fascination with invisibility.

About Face

In South Korea, which has a booming plastic-surgery industry, a common high-school-graduation gift is an operation. Patricia Marx reports from Seoul.

Does It Help to Know History?

One lesson of history is that even doing the right thing rarely works out.

Before The Law: Three Years on Rikers Without Trial

Jennifer Gonnerman on Kalief Browder, a Bronx teen-ager who was accused of stealing a backpack. He spent more than a thousand days awaiting trial.

The Disruption Machine

After Clayton M. Christensen published “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” in 1997, the business world became obsessed with disruption. Jill Lepore explains how the popular theory was founded: on panic, anxiety, and shaky evidence.

The Crooked Ladder

Mobsters climbed by way of crime. Why don't black criminals get the same deal? Malcolm Gladwell on Alice Goffman’s “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.”

The Hunt for El Chapo

Patrick Radden Keefe on the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who is known as El Chapo, the notorious head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.

Shipmates

Life on an aircraft carrier.

MFA vs. POC

In my workshop we never explored our racial identities or how they impacted our writing—at all.

Difficult Girl

Lena Dunham remembers her childhood therapists. “The germophobia morphs into hypochondria morphs into sexual anxiety morphs into the pain and angst that accompany entry into middle school.”

Almost Everything in "Dr. Strangelove" Was True

Eric Schlosser on how Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

A Star in a Bottle

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.

Tales of the Trash

As Sayyid Ahmed collects trash in Peter Hessler’s Cairo neighborhood, he reveals the contradictions of life in modern Egypt.

In Deep

Burkhard Bilger meets the cavers exploring the Chevé system in the Sierra de Juárez mountains of Mexico, which is potentially the deepest cave in the world.

Game of Thrones

How airlines woo the one per cent.

Word Magic

How much really gets lost in translation?