The masterpiece—the war memorial, wall hanging, apologia—tells the same old story, a case of do or die: a tale of friends betrayed, cross-Channel invasion, and the passage of a comet heralding the doom of old England… Alison Kinney on the Bayeux Embroidery. (May 27, ’15)

A new memorial will mark a dark but rarely mentioned moment in Utah history when Mormon settlers slaughtered as many as 30 Paiute men, women and children in the small town of Circleville 150 years ago. By Dennis Romboy.

Jim did little revising and was proud of it. Rewriting was for people who hadn’t worked everything out early—not for Jim. By Terry McDonell.

Moral obtuseness led us into the delta in Vietnam—and later the deserts of the Middle East. By John Medaille.

For 28 years, Kay Grayson lived side-by-side with wild black bears in North Carolina's swampy coastal forests, hand-feeding them, defending them against poachers, and letting them in her home. When she went missing last year, the only thing the investigators could find were her clean-picked bones. And that's just the start of the mystery.

Arguably the most influential wolf in America was killed last week. Who was he? By Wes Siler.

He lived in two worlds. He enjoyed them.

The star architect, who died on Thursday, had to be twice as smart and three times as tough as her male counterparts. By John Seabrook.

A darkly comic master of the novella, Mr. Harrison was also known for his poems and essays on food. By Margalit Fox.

In “Is that Kafka? 99 Finds,” Reiner Stach curates a collection of artifacts from the author’s life. By Avi Steinberg.

The enduring mystery of Keats’s last words. By Michelle Stacey.

Back in March, a few of us here at the magazine got e-mails from friends who had seen an intriguing item listed on eBay. “1930s stripper/dancer scrapbook—Cincinnati,” the posting announced, “Jean Harlow’s double.” So we bought it. But who was she? By RJ Smith.

She was divorced, globe-trotting Jewish aristocrat who championed modern art in the face of the Nazis and broke all the rules of the fussy society she was born into. By Nell Frizzell.

Looking back at her homes, the late Margaret Forster found that walls can have hearts as well as ears. By Juliet Nicolson.

Remembering Giorgio Gomelsky, 1934–2016. By Brian Cullman.

BBC Four Sessions

David Bowie’s Sci-Fi Explorations. By Jason Heller.

My dad, Hugh Walker, died on Saturday. He was 66, and it was a complete shock. Obviously I’m still shattered by it all, but it’s important to me to celebrate the extraordinary person he was, and his impact on my life, as soon as I can. And when it comes to our relationship, gaming was always a feature. By John Walker.

”Twenty immediately loved the fire truck, a classic Seagrave hook-and-ladder, and began accompanying the firefighters on all their calls, from raging blazes to false alarms.“ By Corey Kilgannon.

Two centuries ago, Sarah Baartman died after years spent in European “freak shows.” Now rumours over a possible Hollywood film about Baartman's life have sparked controversy. By Justin Parkinson.