From video reviews posted to Steve1989MREInfo, a YouTube channel on which Steve Thomas evaluates military rations and MREs (meals ready to eat). concentrated beef for beef tea, second boer war…
From a deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell taken in April 2016 by attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, who alleges that Maxwell recruited her and other underage girls as part of a sex-trafficking…
From a sermon given in July 2020 by the minister at Grace Community Church, a megachurch in Sun Valley, California. The church had a coronavirus outbreak in October. We are…
From geoengineering projects proposed by researchers between 2012 and 2020 to prevent or mitigate the impact of climate change. Plant trees Grow waxier plants Paint roofs, roads, sidewalks, and buildings…
From Wild Swims, a collection of short stories, which will be published next month by Graywolf Press. Translated from the Danish. There’s a stubble field in front of the rental…
By Ryozui Ryosen, a fourteenth-century Japanese Zen monk. The poem is the first recorded mention of ramen in Japan and was deciphered last year by Hajime Yoshizawa, an associate professor…
Because I must, I accept that there are people who don’t care too much about those they bump into on the journey. They just want to enjoy a beer or…
What a lot of little music can do? The blind farmer Daylights in his cabbage row, going crouched down between leafy skulls, knows. He rises indifferent, far-gazing as a fine…
Perhaps she should have known that she would find her lost love—her Viking husband, gone these many years—in Sydesgaard, on the island of Funen, in the village of his people.…
In February 2017, one month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the New York Times ran a story by Nate Cohn, with the headline president’s approval ratings are down, but how much…
From Let Me Tell You What I Mean, a collection of essays that will be published next month by Knopf. The essay originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in…
From postscripts of letters written by Robert Lowell to his daughter Harriet, collected in The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979, which was published last year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. cat for…
From a September town-council meeting in Swastika, New York, during which members discussed a request to change the town’s name. The name dates to at least 1913, when it appeared…
From “The Secret to Chukjibeop,” an article published in the May 20 edition of Rodong Sinmun, a state-run newspaper in North Korea. Chukjibeop refers to the power to bend time…
From a letter sent in August by the chairman of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Greetings from our nation’s front…
From the Everyday Objects collection by Tiffany & Co., which the company says was developed to turn “ordinary” and “utilitarian” objects into luxury “works of art.” paper cups Inspired by…
From a 2017 conversation between Yoram Ne’eman, then chief superintendent of the Israeli police, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel. The police were investigating whether Netanyahu had been…
From remarks made by U.S. judges in 2019, which appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of the Judicial Conduct Reporter, published by the National Center for State Courts. These remarks…
From marketing copy for Civvil, a technology company that connects gig workers with property owners and local governments seeking assistance with the eviction of tenants who have fallen behind on…