For Nicole Eisenman, from A Sand Book, which will be published next month by Tin House. I was on my kneesHacking my brainsAlone in a bone Of unratified lightSomeone downstairsWas…
Brainheart, a painting by Elliott Green, whose work was on view in February at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, in New Orleans. Courtesy the artist and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans…
Mental Object 7, a mixed-media artwork by Alice Quaresma, whose work was on view last September at Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and the Tappan…
Clockwise from top left: Moss and Ferns, Grass and Moss, Holes, and Leaves and Vines, paintings by Claire Sherman, whose work was on view last month at DC Moore Gallery,…
The idea for the Civilian Conservation Corps sprang into action almost overnight, in March 1933, during the magnificent ferment of the first hundred days of Roosevelt’s New Deal. It became…
“Thank you for the honor. I am very—honored.” You have been instructed to remove the clumsy black mortarboard at this point in the commencement ceremony. Now you incline your head…
Percentage change since 1975 in the portion of Americans who hold hunting licenses : –38 Number of states that allow roadkill to be salvaged for food : 31 Number of…
From Humanitarian Wars?, which will be published in April in the United Kingdom by Hurst. Brauman, a physician, was president of Doctors Without Borders from 1982 to 1994. This conversation,…
The Time Vivarium-97, a work on paper by Sun Xun, whose work is on view this month at ShanghART Gallery, in Singapore. © The artist. Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York…
From descriptions, published in a music review by Texas senator John Cornyn, of Neil Young’s 1972 album Harvest. The article was printed in February of that year in the Trinitonian,…
“DNA #7797L-#7801R, 2018,” a photograph by Michael Koerner, whose work was on view in March at the CEG Salon, in Chicago. Courtesy the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago…
From the opening lines of chapters in A Short History of Europe, by Simon Jenkins, published in March by Public Affairs Books. It helps to be a god. As Zeus…
From accounts of nonsexual orgasms documented in “Orgasm Range and Variability in Humans: A Content Analysis.” The study was published in the International Journal of Sexual Health in November of…
From The Besieged City, a novel that will be published this month by New Directions. Lispector’s novel The Chandelier was published last year by New Directions. Edited by Benjamin Moser…
From reviews, published on TripAdvisor, of the Henn-na Hotel, a robot-run resort in Japan that laid off more than half its automated workforce in January. Henn-na bills itself as a…
Spectrum of Life I, a painting by Tizta Berhanu, whose work was on view in March at Addis Fine Art, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Courtesy the artist and Addis Fine…
“View Park, Number I,” a photograph by Janna Ireland, whose work is on view this month at Antenna, in New Orleans. Courtesy the artist…