Educating the TikTok generation

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Death from Above Reading Lauren Markham’s essay about human-animal conflict resolution [“The Crow Whisperer,” Miscellany, April], I was reminded of a strange experience my own family had with birds. My…

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From Let the Record Show, a history of ACT UP New York, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It’s March 2018. I have been struggling with…

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Since becoming a father, I have thought a lot about what exactly we’re doing when we name something or someone after someone else. Three years ago, my wife and I,…

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From a lawsuit filed in February in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Panda Express and Alive Seminars, a company hired by the fast-food chain to run a four-day self-improvement…

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From emails sent to Alabama state representative Jeremy Gray regarding a bill to legalize the practice of yoga in K–12 schools, which was banned in 1993. I have only done…

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From Je vous pardonne tous vos péchés, a collection of French priests’ observations about the sacrament of confession. The book was published in March by Éditions de l’Opportun. The following…

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From the livestream of a Michigan district-court hearing held in March, in which Coby Harris was charged with assaulting his girlfriend, the complaining witness. assistant prosecutor deborah davis: Who called…

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From an appeal in a lawsuit against Costco, filed in the Arizona Supreme Court in March. Greg Shepherd visited his physician for a checkup and a refill of his usual…

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From House of Sticks, a memoir, which will be published this month by Scribner. Seven o’clock on a Saturday morning, a few years after my family left Vietnam for Ridgewood,…

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From the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, an online resource that began as a project of the Oxford English Dictionary. meat puppet: the human body; a physical human being, especially…

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From “Memory Store,” collected in Alien Stories, which was published last month by BOA Editions. One of the things he found most fascinating about America was that there were Memory…

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From an assignment at Shallowater High School in Texas titled “Rules for Chivalry,” which required female students to “demonstrate to the school how the code of chivalry and standards set…

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From descriptions of non-fungible tokens created and sold since December 2020. An NFT is a digital item with a unique tag that is stored using blockchain technology. A tweet from…

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From the menu of Good Fortune Burger in Toronto, which named all of its dishes after office supplies so that customers could request reimbursement from their employers. Ergonomic Aluminum Laptop…

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From an email to Vince Neilstein, a co-editor at Metal Sucks magazine, sent by a reader in Florida who calls himself Prince Midnight. My uncle Filip died in the Nineties…

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From the poetry collection A Feeling of And, which is forthcoming from Black Square Editions. The room tone not quite innocent outside, abundant cloud cover one player requests the subject…

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The art of mapping the underground

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self-care Have you tried rose hydrosol? Smoky quartz in a steel bottle of glacial water? Tincture drawn from the stamens of daylilies grown on the western sides of two-story homes?…

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Tragedies in the margins of history

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What the pandemic has done to the arts

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Finding meaning in the climate fight

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Clockwise from top left: “Narrative of Sojourner Truth (title page), 1850, Rubenstein Library, Duke University”; “Watch, Larkin Franklin Sr., Eatonville Historic Preservation”; “The Works of Robert Burns, First Book Purchased…

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A poet’s battle against Russian nationalism

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On a forgotten genius of American music

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Three Versions Play, The Throughs, and Turf Tiff, mixed-media artworks by Annie Lapin. Courtesy the artist; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York City Data from 162…

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Krems, whose splendor the Arab geographer al-Idrisi celebrated in 1153 as surpassing, in his view, that of Vienna, today resembles Vineta, the city submerged by the waters, among whose streets…

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