Refreshed at 0900GMT ThursdayWriting Worth Reading | July 29, 2010

1 Self-described wolf woman severed lost dog's head. This one you do have to read. Bizarre throughout. Here's a quote from Wolf-girl's mother (in San Antonio): “I say, ‘Don’t sever heads in front of me'. She usually does it in the woods.”

2 Slicing and dicing, 17th-century Amsterdam edition: Kevin Drum finds a market in securitised claims on pooled human souls

3 Slicing and dicing, Harper's magazine edition. Jack Shafer, at Slate, rips into Scott Horton's recent long feature on mysterious deaths at Guantanamo