From “The Silver Coast,” collected in Homesickness, which will be published next month by Grove Press. Ciara Lavin was sitting at Lorna’s kitchen table along with Emma Doherty and Lorna’s…
From tips offered by the Huggies diaper brand to people hoping to improve their chance of having twins. Conceive after the age of thirty-five Conceive while taking birth-control pills Conceive…
From reports of things that have fallen out of aircraft since 2005. Bars of gold A canoe paddle A telephone A wrench A training missile A snake Frozen feces Liquid…
From criteria developed to diagnose psychopathy in domestic cats, included in “A domestic cat model of triarchic psychopathy factors: Development and initial validation of the CAT-Tri+ questionnaire.” The article was…
From advice published in Rich People’s Problems, a monthly column in the Financial Times by James Max, during the coronavirus pandemic. If you are adequately insured, then being burgled is…
From a Michigan court hearing regarding a citation for an unkempt property, which was held on Zoom in January. judge: All right. You have a ticket for failing to keep…
The entrance to Castle Garden was blocked up with vehicles, peddlers of cheap cigars, apple stands, and runners from the boarding houses and intelligence offices that abound in the neighborhood…
Once upon a time in a galaxy not far from London, a group called the Association of Autonomous Astronauts was born. The AAA announced a bold “Five Year Plan for…
can this be i? Actually, I had walked into the hallway and disappeared into the bedroom briefly. Several of them danced and I heard Vida say about me, “He disappeared…
From “Three UFOs,” an essay that appeared in the inaugural issue of INQUE, which was published in November. 1. The first UFO woke me from a dead sleep in the…
From Aurelia, Aurélia, a memoir, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. The driver let me out at the foot of an unpaved lane bordered by trees, their…
From Letters to Gwen John, which will be published next month by New York Review Books. The letter is dated June 16, 2019, eighty years after John, a Welsh painter,…
From the 2022 edition of the literary annual NOON, which will be published this month. The four-poster double bed from the redbrick house took up most of the new bedroom,…
Adapted from the essay “Histories, I,” included in the collection In the Margins, which will be published this month by Europa. Translated from the Italian. Anyone with literary ambitions knows…
From The Very Last Interview, a collection of questions loosely adapted from interviews with the writer David Shields, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. Any…
From reports of statements made by Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, since 2017. The coronavirus was released as a terror attack on the economy of the world Chemtrails left by aircraft…
From One Pill Can Kill, a document published in December by the DEA that purports to demonstrate how emojis are used in text conversations about drugs. percocet and oxycodone: 💊…
From December headlines in the New York Times that were altered after publication. The changes were detected by the @nyt_diff Twitter bot, which automatically tweets alterations to the Times website.…
From Late Fragments, which will be published next month by Yale University Press. Translated from the French. A frightful-looking man comes in and looks at himself in the mirror. “Why…
From a report, published in November, of an uncooperative passenger entered into Delta’s Aircraft Communications, Addressing, and Reporting System. FI DL1360/AN N326US<< DT DDL CVG 021734 M22A<< – 3401/02 KSYR/KATL…