The New Yorker

Abu Islam al-Iraqi, a former ISIS commander who ran clandestine cells of suicide bombers in the Iraqi town of Kirkuk has had some time to think about what he’s done. Author Robin Wright says he has few regrets.

Once seen as a unexceptional Communist Party man, Xi Jinping is now positioning himself among the pantheon of the great — and most authoritarian — leaders of modern China. Evan Osnos of the New Yorker talks about the “rise of the Red Prince.”

New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly tells about the selection of the New Yorker cover after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, “Solidarité”

This is the story of Bob and Jacqui — Bob Lambert was a British police spy who worked in counterterrorism and Jacqui fell in love with the man she thought was a Greenpeace activist. Now, decades later, their relationship is at the center of a lawsuit over “rape by the state.”

In literary circles, two of this summer’s buzziest books are more than thirty years old. Speedboat (1976) and Pitch Dark (1983) are the only published works of fiction by Renata Adler.