The Torres del Paine mountains in Patagonia, southern Chile. Photograph: AlamyThe Torres del Paine mountains in Patagonia, southern Chile. Photograph: AlamyPatagonia holidaysForty years ago this month, Bruce Chatwin visited Patagonia and his subsequent book lit a beacon for the remote region in many travellers’ minds. Chris Moss picks the highlights among its peaks, glaciers and lakes For my first forays into Patagonia, in the 1990s, I left behind my guidebooks and travelogues.

Iowa This article is more than 2 months oldIowa woman guilty of stuffing ballot box in husband’s Congress nomination raceThis article is more than 2 months oldKim Taylor convicted of voter fraud in husband’s unsuccessful bid for Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020 The wife of a north-western Iowa county supervisor was convicted on Tuesday of a scheme to stuff the ballot box in her husband’s unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020.

Amos Oz This article is more than 5 years oldIsraeli novelist Amos Oz dies aged 79This article is more than 5 years oldThe author of books including Black Box, A Tale of Love and Darkness and In the Land of Israel, has died from cancer The esteemed Israeli novelist Amos Oz has died at the age of 79, from cancer. The author of 19 works of fiction, hundreds of essays and articles about modern Israel and a longtime candidate for the Nobel prize for literature, Oz was best known for novels including Black Box, In the Land of Israel and A Tale of Love and Darkness.

Metal This article is more than 9 years oldKristian 'Varg' Vikernes guilty of inciting racial hatred, French court rulesThis article is more than 9 years oldNorwegian metal musician fined £6,400 and given six-month suspended sentence for publishing racist screeds that attack Muslims and Jews on his blog A French court has convicted Kristian "Varg" Vikernes of inciting racial hatred. The notorious Norwegian metal musician was handed an €8,000 (£6,400) fine and a six-month suspended sentence for publishing racist screeds that attack Muslims and Jews, reported Norwegian paper the Local.

Rachel Cooke's shelf lifeAutobiography and memoirBarbara Skelton knew some of the most eminent men of her era – often intimately – and wrote down exactly what she thought of themReading the obituaries of the publisher George Weidenfeld, who died last month at the age of 96, I came over all wistful for Barbara Skelton, his extraordinary femme fatale of a second wife. Hadn’t I always meant to read her memoirs, Tears Before Bedtime and Weep No More?