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