Regarding the purported rules of English syntax, we tend to divide into mutually hostile camps. Hip, open-minded types relish the never-ending transformations of the way we speak and write. They…
Percentage of Indian M.P.s elected in 2019 who are facing criminal charges : 43 Percentage of those M.P.s who are being charged with murder or attempted murder : 18 Amount…
From Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, published this month by Simon and Schuster. Every quarter, the business leaders from Koch Industries’ various divisions…
From research topics funded by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency between 2007 and 2012. The list was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists. BiomaterialsMetamaterialsFusion propulsion
From the cockpit transcript of a Navy training flight near Seattle, in 2017. The exchange was released in May, following an investigation. Excerpts from the transcript were first published by…
6th Lord of the Underworld, a mixed-media artwork by Joseph Burwell, whose work was on view last month at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, in New York City. © The artist. Courtesy…
War Endures, a painting by Olive Ayhens, whose work will be on view in November at Bookstein Projects, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Bookstein Projects, New York…
The Rest of Lord Byron, a painting by Miki Leal, whose work was on view in February at ARCOmadrid, in Madrid. Courtesy the artist and F2 Galería, Madrid
By Lydia Davis, from a manuscript in progress. Her collection of essays, Essays One, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November. It takes me so long to…
By Caleb Crain, from Overthrow, which will be published this month by Viking. Crain’s previous novel was Necessary Errors. A little before one, Leif’s phone gave the black?fly buzz that…
From statements made about opioid use in Exit Wounds: A Survival Guide to Pain Management for Returning Veterans and Their Families, by Derek McGinnis, an Iraq War veteran. Exit Wounds is one of several…
“The Hotel” (above) and “Hidden Stairs” (below), photographs by Travis Fox, from his series The Pines, which documents an abandoned Jewish summer resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York.…
Maggie had nothing in the world but Mike and the twins and the other two little boys, none of whom could be considered anything of an asset. Mike had landed…