The State Department's hostage point man, Roger Carstens, works to free US citizens from captivity, whether they're being held by Vladimir Putin or Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. ADAM CIRALSKY embeds with America's top negotiators through 15 months of rescue efforts with the highest of stakes: liberty or death

Jacqueline Kennedy was the First Lady and iconic widow lauded for her style and beauty. More stylish and beautiful, in many eyes, was her sister, Lee Radziwill. Both adored their dashing, ne'er-do-well father, "Black Jack" Bouvier, were drawn to the same men—including Aristotle Onassis, Rudolf Nureyev, and Peter Beard—and dealt with terrible tragedy. In a revealing interview with SAM KASHNER, Radziwill looks back at their deeply intertwined lives

"La Côte Basque 1965," the first installment of Truman Capote's planned roman à clef, Answered Prayers, dropped like a bomb on New York society when it appeared in Esquire's November 1975 issue. Iced out by the friends he'd skewered—such of his "swans" as Slim Keith, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Babe Paley—Capote began his slide into an early grave. SAM KASHNER pursues the scandal's mysteries, including the fate of the unfinished manuscript

"They're like a Monty Python sketch," said Meghan's father about his new royal in-laws. "I'm like, 'What is this, Joan Crawford speaking?' " says Meghan's half-sister. A slightly fractured, Americanized, Kardashianified royal fairy tale