The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood

What a wild ride. I went into this hoping to understand the allure of Jihadism more deeply, and it certainly gave me that. It felt at times like it was treading the same ground: IS don't care about post-prophetic legal rulings on Islamic law; they take a literal interpretation of the Qu'ran; their number-one priority is the creation of a new caliphate. These were new learnings for me, but (aside from some interesting personal anecdotes by the author on entrapment of foreign women in a Jihadist charity), it didn't give me much more than this. Recommended as a gateway read, but I find myself looking for something else to read to fill in the gaps.