From A Rebel in Gaza, published last month by DoppelHouse Press. Translated from the French by Mike Mitchell. Among the memories I brought back home is a meeting with our…
From songs selected by US interrogators to be played repeatedly at maximum volume for inmates at detention centers around the world, including at Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Mosul.…
From Workers’ Tales, a collection of British socialist fairy tales from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, edited by Michael Rosen and published last month by Princeton University Press.…
From Love in the New Millennium, a novel that was published this month by Yale University Press. Can Xue is the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua, who previously worked as a…
From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. A race-baiting, xenophobic bigotThe Islamic State’s “man of the year”The death…
A Strange Hour, a painting by Amy Bennett, whose work was on view in April at Richard Heller Gallery, in Santa Monica, California. Courtesy the artist and Richard Heller Gallery,…
“Transformed Agricultural Machine, Kayak Road Sign Facing Highway 90, Hula Valley,” a photograph by Roei Greenberg, whose work was on view in August at Aperture Gallery, in New York City.…
“Ça Va Aller #3,” an embroidered photograph by Joana Choumali, whose work was on view in May at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, in Brooklyn, New York. Courtesy the artist…
“Dictyota dichotoma, in the young state; and in fruit,” a cyanotype by Anna Atkins, c. 1850, from her book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, Part XI. Atkins’s work is…
Percentage increase from 2016 to 2017 in incidents of piracy in the Caribbean : 163 Chance that a migrant crossing the Mediterranean this year would be killed in transit :…
Most of the time, Americans seem to thrive on change. The meadow converted to a real-estate development is regarded less as a sacrifice to progress than a symbol of it.…
How World War I delayed a treatment for diabetes and derailed one man’s chance at immortality
Tongo Eisen-Martin’s poems are echo chambers of vernaculars and unofficial languages. He both registers the damage caused by systemic racism and evinces—and by his work extends—the rich modes of resistance…
H e is a nondescript man. I’d never used that adjective about a client. Not until this one. My seventeenth. He’d requested an evening time and came Tuesdays at six-thirty.…