Longform's Picks of the Week - By Max Linsky

Every weekend, Longform highlights its favorite international articles of the week. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad? Download Longform's brand-new app and read all of the latest in-depth stories from dozens of magazines, including Foreign Policy.

Uncatchable, by Michael Finkel. GQ.

George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story:

"The Wrights returned to Portugal in 1993, to the white house in the seaside village, chiefly for their children's education. Wright painted houses. He ran a restaurant he called Chicken in the 'Hood. He made jewelry boxes and sold them in a stall near the beach. He marketed women's cosmetics.

He became involved in a local congregation -- Grace Church -- and was baptized in the Atlantic Ocean. Many of his neighbors thought he was an immigrant from Africa. He spent a great deal of time volunteering for a Portuguese charity called Serve the City. He refurbished an outreach center for HIV-positive kids; he cleaned graffiti in Lisbon and planted public flower beds. He helped organize dinners for homeless people: 'We had tablecloths, candlelight. We wanted to give them dignity. We'd serve them. Volunteers would sing and play instruments.'

Years rolled by. His kids grew up. Wright became a senior citizen. The fact that he was a fugitive was never fully forgotten -- he described it as 'living with a shadow' -- but the passage of time lent his thoughts a different hue. 'It's not a comforting feeling, knowing you've been involved in something where a ma's life has been taken. You cannot imagine how many times I've thought about that day. Every day I regret I did that.'"

Vancouver's Supervised Drug Injection Center: How Does It Work? by Paul Hiebart. The Awl.

An interview on the logistics of running North America's only legal facility for drug addicts to push heroin and cocaine and other types of substances into their veins:

"Well, first, we're trying to reduce harm any way we can without requiring abstinence. We're not trying to push things on people. I mean, we want people to be abstinent, but that's not our expectation. Our push is to promote safety and harm reduction.

The approach we take is to promote self-respect. We're trying to get people to respect themselves regardless of their addictions or whatever's going on. It's pretty much unconditional. We're not going to meet these people with a bunch of shame. We're not going to lump our expectations and our hopes onto them. Usually they feel shitty enough themselves. They already know that they fucked up. They're already their own worst enemy.

We're in this beautiful position where we're not family and we're not friends. We have the capacity to accept them again, easily and openly."

The Spy Who Came in From the Code, by  Matthieu Aikin. Columbia Journalism Review.

How a British journalist accidentally revealed his dissident sources to Syrian authorities:

"For correspondents who report from conflict zones or on underground activism in repressive regimes, the risks are extremely high. Recently, two excellent investigative series -- by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News -- and the release of a large trove of surveillance industry documents by Wikileaks dubbed "The Spy files," provided a glimpse of just how sophisticated off-the-shelf monitoring technologies have become. Western companies have sold mass Web and e-mail surveillance technology to Libya and Syria, for instance, and in Egypt, activists found specialized software that allowed the government to listen in to Skype conversations. In Bahrain, meanwhile, technology sold by Nokia Siemens allowed the government to monitor cell-phone conversations and text messages."