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 Carr�re on photographer Darcy Padilla, and the relationship with her subject, Julie Baird

Photography by Tomas van Houtryve and Fran�oise Huguier, introduced by Eliza Griswold and A.M. Homes