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ColumbineInterviewMy son, the Columbine high school shooter: ‘a mother is supposed to know’Emma BrockesSue Klebold’s son and his friend killed 13 people at Columbine high school. Nearly two decades on, she is still haunted by one question: is there anything she could have done? Read an extract from Sue Klebold’s book, A Mother’s Reckoning One of the first things Sue Klebold does when we meet is apologise for her lack of hospitality.

Old musicMusicOld music: Sinéad O'Connor – Nothing Compares 2 UThis song was so pervasive precisely because its emotions were so universal – and its performance so truthfulReading on mobile? Watch here Through the summer of 1990 Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinéad O'Connor was not only pervasive but quite inescapable. It was a huge international hit. You could hear it in taxis, shops, friends' houses in London, New York, Berlin, Sydney and O'Connor's home city of Dublin.

DrugsPsilocybin can help to heal trauma, users say, but the racialized history of drugs in the US has long fueled fear Enter a room and notice the scent of wood. Palo santo, a unique bark that stems from the tropical forest of Ecuador, burns brightly. A statue of a dark-skinned African woman sits in the center, sea shells dangling from her body. A facilitator begins the psychedelic mushroom ceremony with music and prayer.

Jack Barsky in Atlanta. Photograph: Johnathon Kelso/The GuardianJack Barsky in Atlanta. Photograph: Johnathon Kelso/The GuardianEspionageRaised in East Germany, Jack Barsky abandoned his mother, brother, wife and son to spy for the KGB. In America, he started a second family. And then it all came crashing down... On a chilly morning in December 1988, computer analyst Jack Barsky embarked on his usual morning commute to his office on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, leaving his wife and baby daughter at home in Queens.

Battling the elements … rain is no reason to cancel your barbecue. Photograph: Pat Canova/AlamyBattling the elements … rain is no reason to cancel your barbecue. Photograph: Pat Canova/AlamyBarbecuePlanning a barbecue but worried about the weather? Don’t be put off: follow these tips for great grilling come rain or shine. Plus: recipes you can cook in the oven or over coals When it comes to great British sports, barbecuing in the rain is right up there with aggressive queueing and passive-aggressive apologising as something we are born to do.

GymnasticsOlivia Dunne’s AI endorsement raises ethical questions around NIL deals Gymnast’s ad for AI essay-writing product raises questions How Dunne turned the male gaze into a gymnastics empire LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne’s endorsement of an artificial intelligence essay-writing product is raising questions about whether college athletic programs should provide clearer ethical guidelines for athletes earning money from name, image and likeness contracts. “It does seem problematic to have people sort of promoting plagiarism,” said John Basl, a philosophy professor at Northeastern University in Boston who specializes in AI and data ethics, and who also is a faculty affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryPoem of the week: The Phoenix and the Turtle by William ShakespeareAn enigmatic allegory that seems steeped in Elizabethan court politics is full of music worth listening to for its own sakeThis week's poem, William Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and the Turtle", was first published in 1601, in an anthology entitled Love's Martyr. The collection begins with a long poem by Robert Chester, and includes work by various hands, including Ben Jonson and George Chapman, all of it having a "

BooksHis short stories explore life's mysteries and mundanity in equal measure. James Lasdun celebrates Chekhov on the 150th anniversary of his birthThe canonised writers of the past have a tendency to assume a fixed expression in their readers' imaginations. Dostoevsky always appears in the same aura of morbidly enthralling hysteria; Proust in the same velvety atmosphere of hyper-attuned sensory receptiveness. To think of Tolstoy is to conjure, at once, the note of impassive grandeur, as of creation being set out in glittering ranks for inspection.

Charlie Porter on men's fashionWorld newsBrooks Brothers store turned into morgueThe victims Identification is the biggest task for examinersSpecial report: terrorism in the US Temporary morgues have been set up in the Brooks Brothers clothing store and other buildings near to where the World Trade Centre once stood. The men's shirt department in the upmarket store is being used to house bodies recovered from the ruins until they can be moved for identification to the Institute of Forensic Medicine on First Avenue at 30th Street.