The man the White House wakes up to / Mark Leibovich
The runaway general / Michael Hastings
Covert operations / Jane Mayer
The Guantánamo "Suicides" / Scott Horton
Letting go / Atul Gawande
I want my prostate back / Laurence Roy Stains
My bra's too tight and it's never too late / Paige Williams
Joan Rivers always knew she was funny / Jonathan Van Meter
Kanye West has a goblet / Jonah Weiner
What's Your favorite war? and Why is Clint Eastwood still the man? and Why can't Kanye West shut the hell up? / Stephen Marche
A boulevard called chagrin / Joe Posnanski
Murder in Dubai and Peretz Agonistes / Marc Tracy
Topic of Cancer and unanswerable prayers and Miss Manners and the Big C / Christopher Hitchens
Mister Lytle: An essay / John Jeremiah Sullivan
The physics of speed / William Giraldi
Autism's first child / John Donvan and Caren Zucker
The suicide catcher / Michael Paterniti
Innocence lost and innocence found / Pamela Colloff
Minor Watt / Paul Theroux
Lines from the reports of the investigative committees / Joel Brouwer
For us surrender is out of the question / Mac McClelland
From The shrine down the hall / Dexter Filkins
Water is life / Barbara Kingsolver.