Best New Yorker Articles of 2015

Diyarbakir, Turkey, once at the center of the Armenian genocide, is trying to make amends. Raffi Khatchadourian reports from his grandfather’s home town.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a former oil tycoon who got rich in the post-Soviet legal vacuum. Julia Ioffe profiles Russia’s unlikely democracy activist.

Luke Mogelson on how communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone are finding ways to overcome the virus.

The Web wasn’t built to preserve its past; the Wayback Machine aims to remedy that. Jill Lepore on the ethereal nature of the Web.

The city has one of the highest rates of fatal shootings by cops, but no officer has been indicted. Rachel Aviv reports on a crisis in New Mexico.

Rebecca Mead on “Hamilton,” a hip-hop, pop, and rap musical about the Founding Fathers, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, which premièred at the Public Theatre.

Elizabeth Kolbert on the trial of Oskar Gröning, the “bookkeeper from Auschwitz,” and on her great-grandmother, who died there.

Ian Frazier on Ellin Mackay, a prodigy débutante of the Harold Ross era.

Peter Hessler went on book tour with Zhang Jiren, his Chinese censor.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2015 report on Gerry Adams and the notorious murders and secret burials that the I.R.A. claimed he authorized during the Troubles, in Northern Ireland.

Nicholas Thompson on Roger Pasquier, an ornithologist who also happens to be an élite money hunter.

Seymour M. Hersh returns to Vietnam to visit the site of the My Lai massacre.

Evan Osnos on how an unremarkable provincial administrator became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao.

Ariel Levy writes on wrongfully convicted inmates who have been proved innocent, and asks how the state should decide how much to compensate the exonerated.

An Alaskan tribe’s monument found its way to John Barrymore’s Beverly Hills estate. Paige Williams on an artifact’s journey.

Sarah Stillman writes about abductions of undocumented migrants attempting to enter the United States, and why such kidnappings are on the rise.

The Massachusetts senator isn’t running for President, but she’s still Hillary Clinton’s most significant Democratic threat. Ryan Lizza reports.

As poachers grow bolder, Andrea Turkalo studies the behavior of a vanishing species, Peter Canby reports from the Central African Republic.

New fiction by Justin Taylor: “There are literally dozens of texts from Mark Perv waiting for her, which is both surprising and not.”

Jill Lepore on the case’s implications for Obergefell v. Hodges and the fight for reproductive rights in the Supreme Court.

Who owns Witanhurst, the city’s largest home after Buckingham Palace? Ed Caesar investigates.

The Washington Post journalist has been in a Tehran prison for nearly a year, without being publicly charged. Why?

Why were the Muslim students Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha murdered in Chapel Hill? Margaret Talbot reports.

New Fiction by Louise Erdrich: An Ojibwe girl and a white clerk make a daring escape through the frozen north.

Lawrence Wright reports on the attempt to rescue five hostages in Syria: Kayla Mueller, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, James Foley, and Theo Padnos.

Kathryn Schulz writes about the Pacific Northwest’s Cascadia fault line, and the region’s inadequate disaster-preparedness plans.

Jill Lepore goes in pursuit of the oral history Joseph Mitchell wrote about in “Joe Gould’s Secret.”

Ian Parker on Yanis Varoufakis’s high-stakes negotiations with European leaders in the days leading up to the July, 2015, referendum.

Peter Hessler reports on Chen Yaying and Liu Jun, who sell G-strings to conservative Muslim women.

The mass exodus from New Orleans has revealed a lot about how much your neighborhood can shape your fate. Malcolm Gladwell reports.

George Packer on the city’s immigrant suburbs, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and France’s problems with Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and Islamist radicalism.

Nick Paumgarten writes about the New Jersey city and Revel, the casino that was supposed to turn things around.

Patrick Radden Keefe on the defense attorney Judy Clarke and the Boston Marathon bombing trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Evan Osnos writes about the Khan family in Florida and Pakistan and how the F.B.I. linked them to terrorism.

Patrick Radden Keefe on the author of “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky,” and his attempt to track down terrorists in Libya, make a film, and crack the case.

Jennifer Gonnerman on Taylonn Murphy, who became an activist in the Grant and Manhattanville Houses in Harlem, after his daughter Chicken was shot.

Margaret Talbot on Senator Bernie Sanders, and how he emerged as a persistent challenger to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

Jane Kramer writes about the writer and activist Gloria Steinem, whose book “My Life on the Road” comes out in October, and her influence on feminism.

Nicholas Schmidle on the seven-thousand mile journey of a Syrian refugee to seek asylum in Sweden.

Calvin Trillin on John Shelton Reed, Dan Levine, and the Campaign for Real Barbecue, in North Carolina.

Nathan Heller explores a decades-old case: Two young lovers were convicted of a brutal slaying. Years later, why has the case become a cause?

John Seabrook on the Herculaneum scrolls, which have stymied papyrologists for centuries. Can a particle accelerator make them all readable?

Fiction by Ann Beattie: “You couldn’t just stare into the darkness with binoculars, looking at your old life.”

Margaret Talbot on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price of Salt,” which turned an erotic obsession into literary art.

Alex Ross on the actor-director of “Citizen Kane” fame, and on the biographies of him.

Ben McGrath on the transcontinental canoe trips and disappearance of an eccentric Navy vet.

Samanth Subramanian on the murder of Avijit Roy and a hit list of writers in Bangladesh.