At the border

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Bayview, Texas, the Immigration and Naturalization Service Processing Center. The camp lies well to the north of the Rio Grande, covering 317 acres of the flatlands beside the Gulf of…

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On a November Saturday in 1990, Pam went over to Joe’s place to listen to records. It was raining in sheets that whipped around the corners of buildings and blowing…

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Discussed in this essay: Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, by Cecelia Watson. Ecco. 224 pages. $19.99. Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer,…

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A twentieth-century Tolstoy and his forgotten novel

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On the Shining Path

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Among a million species now threatened with extinction, marine species are disappearing at twice the rate of terrestrial species, and British hedgehogs are in decline, possibly owing to a loss…

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An idea that won’t go away

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Brexit Wounds On the matter of Britain’s membership in the European Union, which Lionel Shriver discussed in her fascinating recent column [“No Exit,” Easy Chair, April], I am a reluctant…

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Last spring, the BBC officially took up a “50:50 challenge” to achieve an equal number of male and female experts on news and current-events shows within the following year. We’re…

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Number of tickets issued by the New York Police Department for sex in public parks in 2007 : 432 Number it issued last year : 6 Percentage by which membership…

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From A Primer for Forgetting, out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. anti-mnemonicsUmberto Eco writes that “once, as a joke, some friends and I invented advertisements for university po­sitions…

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From Be Recorder, which will be published in August by Graywolf Press. I wept with my grandmother when Reaganwas shot because that’s what she wanted.At night, she’d tell me about…

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Hat in the Ring, a mixed-media artwork made of found tin collaged on wood, by Tony Berlant, whose work is on view this month at Brian Gross Fine Art, in…

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“O emetse mohala,” a photograph by Lebohang Kganye, whose work was on view in February at Rose Gallery, in Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Afronova Gallery, Johannesburg…

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From The Other Half, a manuscript in progress rebutting the author’s 1996 memoir, Half a Life, which describes her relationship with her husband, whom she met when she was a…

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From descriptions of products and services provided by businesses that have launched using the Uber model. A list of the on-demand companies was published by The Atlantic in March. Local…

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From a radio interview, by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, of the Israeli-British psychic Uri Geller, who published an open letter informing the British prime minister, Theresa May, that he would…

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All the While I Thought You Had Received This, a painting by Maia Cruz Palileo, whose work was on view in March at Monique Meloche Gallery, in Chicago. Courtesy the…

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From his novel Remorse Test, which was published in 2017 in Lebanon and won the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature. A translated excerpt was published in April in…

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From titles of books and periodicals that are banned, or of which issues are banned, in Louisiana state prisons. Pinterest for BusinessSmart Moves Beyond Mutual FundsO, The Oprah MagazineThe Prada…

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“Frieze,” a photograph by James Nizam, whose work was on view last month at Gallery Jones, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Jones, Vancouver, British Columbia…

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+”pentium II” +”400mhz” racconti erotici_SATAI, a painting by Petra Cortright, whose work was on view in December at Société, in Berlin. Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin…

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The afterlife of American junk

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Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city’s most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall…

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Infinity is a disco in Lower Manhattan. It is 3 a.m. on Friday, the dead of night, but the evening is not yet half over and there are still two…

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How bloated defense budgets gut our armed forces

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