From Anecdotes, a collection of vignettes that originally appeared in Kleist’s newspaper Berliner Abendblätter, which began publication in 1810. Kleist took his own life the following year. The collection will…

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From “Stories to Black-and-White Sketches by Alex Katz,” translated from the German. the foam-born Drawings by Alex Katz, from the series Beauty Portfolio, 2017–19 © The artist/VAGA at Artists Rights…

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From emails sent to the City of Oakland last year about a wild peacock living in a North Oakland neighborhood. The records were obtained by Adrien Salzberg at MuckRock. I’ve…

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From Crazy Sorrow, a novel, which will be published this month by Simon and Schuster. Fall passed to winter passed to early spring. All of it mild—God’s little favor. Arthur…

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From “Sex with Robots: Therapeutic Challenges and Opportunities,” an online lecture presented by Twist, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Stout, and hosted by the International Online Sexology Supervisors. Digisexuality…

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From words that describe environmental phenomena that have entered colloquial usage since the Fifties, identified by the writer Isaac Pearlman. The Blob Drunken forest Firenado Earthshine Hotumn Cold stunning Relic…

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From vaccination incentives offered by governments and businesses around the world this year. $1.5 million A $1.4 million apartment Gold bars A Tesla Model 3 sedan A vacation to Palm…

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From Twice Alive, a poetry collection, which was published in May by New Directions. Aroused by her inaccessibility, he aches for more of her life to live inside him. Watching…

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From design images for The Third Eye, a robotic eye developed by Min-Wook Paeng, an industrial designer and student at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. The…

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From “Fish in a barrel: Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) from the Baltic Sea wreck of the royal Danish flagship Gribshunden (1495),” by Stella Macheridis et al., which appeared in the…

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The Hemlock Quarterly, an unassuming little newsletter that until recently was the chief perquisite of membership in the Hemlock Society, may have been the only radical publication in the United…

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In 1974, a pair of scientists who would go on to win the Nobel Prize published a paper demonstrating that the chlorofluorocarbons used in aerosol sprays and refrigerators were harming…

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“Tulle no. 23” and “Tulle no. 18,” photographs by Thomas Jackson, from the series Point Reyes National Seashore, California, 2020. Jackson’s work was on view in June at Jackson Fine…

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Black Mirror Barrett Swanson’s report on collab houses [“The Anxiety of Influencers,” Letter from Los Angeles, June] reminded me of another excellent piece of writing: George Saunders’s 2003 short story…

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From “Sources of Life,” which was published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Point. Jackson’s essay “Prayer for a Just War” appeared in the June issue of Harper’s Magazine.…

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From publishers’ descriptions of audiobooks recorded by Edmund Kemper for The Blind Project. Kemper was convicted of murdering his grandmother, grandfather, mother, and seven other girls and women between 1964…

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From interviews collected in On Dark and Bloody Ground, which will be published this month by West Virginia University Press. grace jackson: In the days of prosperity, you know, those…

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From “On Dating White Guys While Me,” an essay from the collection Don’t Let It Get You Down, which was published last month by Simon and Schuster. Holt was a…

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The short story was published in the Spring 2021 issue of Ploughshares. It was Communion Day when Pastor Short announced before the congregation his engagement to a woman who was…

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From actions taken by the producers, cast, and crew of hidden-camera television shows that have aired around the world since 2010. Set up a fake security checkpoint, stopped a migrant…

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From What Storm, What Thunder, which will be published in October by Tin House. I’m usually talkative, you see. Not in an annoying, over-the-top kind of way, but I have…

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Why the Democrats don’t need Joe Manchin

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Can suicide be predicted?

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For years, people asked Rochelle: What were you thinking? Everybody wanted to know. Strangers would cross the street to cut her off on the sidewalk. Hey, they would say. Tell…

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How Hannah Arendt’s fans misread the post-truth presidency

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What does it mean to be Latino?

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On Roger Deakin’s indelible swims

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