It happened sometimes you asked me To play with you or differentiate Between black birds or help find Three things wrong and I said no Grackles sing like old springs…
It’s a dramatic scene. A man clings to the branches of a fruit tree, a look of terror on his face. He’s certainly in a pickle. The tree is bent…
From “How to Be Married,” an essay in the collection How to Be Normal, which will be published next month by Belt Publishing. For some of us, there’s a season…
From Pure Colour, a novel, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mira left home. Then she got a job at a lamp store. The lamp…
From Little Elegies for Sister Satan, a poetry collection, which was published in May 2021 by New Directions. Here, Sister, it can be said that good-by means hello, day night,…
From Sentence, a memoir, which will be published next month by Viking. The entire time I was in prison, I owned a typewriter, and it was on this typewriter that…
From fund-raising emails sent by the campaign of former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for a second term in 2021. I’m going to level with you:…
From “7417 Hollywood Boulevard,” which was published in October 2021 in the fourth volume of his All Night Menu series, a history of Los Angeles in five installments. Each booklet…
From an October 2021 analysis of immunization data by the Salt Lake County Health Department, in Utah, demonstrating how COVID-19 vaccination rates vary by astrological sign. sign percentage fully vaccinated…
From a statement made in July 2021 by Mike Knox, a Houston City Council member. A situation has developed recently regarding the replacement of my official city photograph. Many of…
From a 2018 study commissioned by the U.S. State Department to investigate claims that an auditory weapon was being deployed against American diplomats in Cuba. The study was published in…
From Bird: Exploring the Winged World, which was published in November 2021 by Phaidon Press. The photograph originally appeared in The Budgerigar in 2014. Wild budgerigars are green. This is…
From the titles of books published since Joy of Cooking was released in 1931. The Joy of Love The Joy of Sex The Joy of Sweat The Joy of Efficiency…
From Last Letter to a Reader, an essay collection, which will be published in May by And Other Stories. I have my own way of assessing the worth of a…
Wise heads tell us we act first, or decide to act first, and reason afterward. What could be put down in black and white as to why we took up…
I’ve given the Second World War a uniformly bad press, rejecting all attempts to depict it as a sensible proceeding or to mitigate its cruelty and swinishness. I have rubbed…
One morning in September, a dapper Frenchman seated next to me in the garden of the Château de Tocqueville gestured solemnly at the front page of Le Monde, the house…