On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.

On the importance of skateboarding.

On the intrigue surrounding Dr. Zhivago’s publication.

A dispatch from Donetsk.

On the narrative of sexual coercion.

“I write this with a baseball bat by the bed.”

Accused of being part of a terror cell at age 12, Gitmo’s youngest prisoner recounts his life

A turn in the orgy dome, half a hit of German-engineered acid and more adventures on the Playa.

Parking garages, prisons, freeways and the world of stuff we’re not supposed to look at.

How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.

On the experience of having a stroke.

The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.

An Englishman’s eighteen years of exile-by-choice.

The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.

The rise and fall of the new oligarchs, who raided the Russian state. When Putin came to power most fled, but not Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “The other oligarchs, when they saw the fuzz, knew they should run. But Khodorkovsky forgot.”

What happens when we run out of houses.

Did the Obama Administration ignore evidence that someone other than Assad could be behind the sarin attacks?

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.

On interviewing and napping beside Norman Mailer.

The rise of the Night Wolves, a Kremlin-backed biker gang, and what it says about the Russian political condition.

On the attempt to rehabilitate Afghanistan’s child jihadis.

On the dangerous state of U.K. banks—“an existential threat to British democracy, a more serious one than terrorism, either external or internal”—and how it can be fixed.

In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.

On reading and writing fan fiction.

On the future of Britain’s finances.