The Sunday Read

How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.

NASA is conducting tests on what might be the greatest challenge of a Mars mission: the trauma of isolation.

He turned last year’s season of ‘Vanderpump Rules’ into the best in reality TV’s history — and ruined his life in the process.

The explosion of the e-commerce economy has created an opportunity for thieves — and a conundrum for the railways.

Over six terrible months, professors and administrators at Worcester Polytechnic Institute took on the unofficial role of counselors during a spate of campus suicides.

Hvaldimir escaped captivity and became a global celebrity. Now, no one can agree about what to do with him.

Months of preparation, hundreds of staff, convoys of cutting-edge gear: inside the machine that crafts prime time’s most popular entertainment.

The race is on to put hotels in space and neighborhoods on the moon. Here’s some of what we know about how Earthlings fare beyond the safety of our home world.

If childhood obesity is an ‘epidemic,’ how far should doctors go to treat it?

For 13 years, police failed to scrutinize the man now accused of the infamous murders. Why did it take so long?