A long but insightful article about Facebook and its recent controversies. 

On a powerful recent memoir from Palestine. 

A profile of Riz Ahmed, who is as interesting a person as he is powerful an actor. 

The big one is coming. A computer hack, that is. Here’s a precursor. 

On a series of thefts that sound like an art-heist thriller, but true, and possibly sponsored by a national government. 

A thoughtful and nuanced examination of the case of Otto Warmbier, the American arrested in North Korea and eventually sent home in a vegetative state.

About the hard lives of women in rural India. 

William Langewiesche’s compelling story about a soldier’s struggle to expose a war crime.

Originally titled “Morsi the Cat,” this is Peter Hessler’s paean to Cairo. 

Lawrence Wright’s moving article on the families of five hostages held in Syria.