From modifications made to photographs of suspects by N.Y.P.D. officers before entering them into facial-­recognition software, as referenced in “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Face Recognition on Flawed Data,” a report…

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A photograph by Demetris Koilalous from Caesura: The Duration of a Sigh, a monograph about the experience of migrants who cross the Aegean Sea to Greece, which was published last…

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Hamlet, a hand-embroidered found photograph by Julie Cockburn, from her monograph Stickybeak, which was published by Chose Commune in September. Cockburn’s work is on view this month at Flowers Gallery,…

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From user reviews on Amazon of Pinot Meow, a non-alcoholic beet-based drink for cats that is marketed as “cat wine.” My cat loved itMy cats didn’t seem to like itMy…

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From a manuscript in progress. Or the one drunken half-quarter grand uncle recallingThe sound speckled apples on his fabled real daddy’sCoastal orchard made falling multidimensionallyTo the vaguely salty combination of…

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“Fent’s Prairie, near Salina, Kansas, Late May, 2018,” a photograph by Terry Evans, whose work was on view in March at Catherine Edelman Gallery, in Chicago. © The artist. Courtesy…

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Three Trick Pony, a painting by David Hytone, whose work was on view in July at Gallery 16, in San Francisco. Courtesy the artist and Gallery 16, San Francisco

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Has America’s founding document become the nation’s undoing?

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Upon the election of Andrew Jackson, the conflict over the rights of the states had reached a perilous height. The Constitution was on a lee shore; neither the sun nor…

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Can progressive prosecutors achieve meaningful criminal-justice reform?

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What was the Golden Age of TV?

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Sexual abuse in the world of Orthodox Judaism

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Why parole in America is just another prison

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I was in Midtown, sitting by a dry fountain, making a list of all the men I’d slept with since my last checkup—doctor’s orders. Afterward, I would head downtown and…

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There are no men in the densely civilized galaxy of Samuel R. Delany’s 1984 novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. Everybody—whether human or extraterrestrial, and on all but…

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Ben Lerner changes perspective

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On Henrik Ibsen

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New studies confirmed that the current warming period is without precedent in the past two thousand years. Permafrost in the Canadian Arctic is thawing seventy years ahead of schedule, nitrous-oxide…

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Percentage of U.S. album sales represented by classical music : 2.5 Of U.S. music streams : 0.7 Amount spent globally on virtual goods within video games last year : $93,000,000,000…

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Socialism and Barbarism According to Aaron Lake Smith, who discusses the works of Vasily Grossman alongside my biography of the writer [“The Trials of Vasily Grossman,” Reviews, July], my book…

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My first reaction upon seeing what was supposedly a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing what was alleged to be a mine from the broken hull of what we were…

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Rank of Canada among countries resettling the most refugees in 2018 : 1 Minimum number of years for which the United States previously held that distinction : 59 Percentage of…

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This is the story of a layover. Who tells that story? I’m telling it to you now. One January evening, my flight got delayed out of Louisiana, where I’d been…

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From The Undying, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. There is no more tragic piece of furniture than a bed, how it falls so quickly from…

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Private Domain, a mixed-media artwork by Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, whose work was on view in April at the Carlow University Art Gallery, in Pittsburgh.

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Longing, To Hover and DT—Reminiscence, Will I Be Missed, paintings on burlap by Kaveri Raina, whose work was on view in August at Luhring Augustine, in New York City. © Kaveri…

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By Benjamin Moser, from Sontag: Her Life and Work, which will be published by Ecco this month. “In the Freudian conception,” wrote one author, “as it gradually emerged through these…

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