We call ourselves the Fellowship, or sometimes the Church of God, but the world knew us as the Plymouth Brethren - Ken Follett
These Mennonite colonies are self-policed, except in cases of murder. The bishop and the elders came up with a solution to the problem of how to punish the offenders: they would lock all nine men into sheds and basements for three or four decades - Miriam Toews
Ivan Chistyakov: diary of a Gulag prison guard Sarah Gerard: going 'Diamond' with Amway Matilda Gustavsson: a false religious miracle Lauren Hough: growing up in the Family Aatish Taseer: with the Brahmins of Benares
New fiction by Luke Kennard, Lara Vapnyar and Adam Thorpe
Poetry: Will Alexander, Fen Sun Chen, Kelly Schirmann and Javier Zamora
Plus, Emmanuel Carrre on photographer Darcy Padilla, and the relationship with her subject, Julie Baird
Photography by Tomas van Houtryve and Franoise Huguier, introduced by Eliza Griswold and A.M. Homes