Bianca White, dressed in cream, was the first to arrive. All morning, she’d been looking forward to her lunch date with Ainsley Burton. In addition to being Bianca’s estranged best…
Percentage of pending cases at the European Court of Human Rights that were filed against the Russian government : 19 That were filed against the UK government : 0.5 Portion…
Lost in this past electoral season, one of the most vicious and frightening in American history, is how shaky the very foundation of our democracy is. Throughout Trump’s deformation of…
Factor by which the number of Americans who identify as “former Catholics” has increased since 1975 : 4 Percentage of US Christians who say they have had fewer than ten…
From The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, published this month by Riverhead Books. Treuer is Ojibwe and from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. In 1863, Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk)…
From reported behaviors of Republican legislators who were elected or reelected in November. Posted erotic drawings of bigfootVoted to make it legal to kill hibernating wolves and bearsBragged about shooting…
Group X, No. 2, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 2, Altarbild) and Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 1, Altarbild), 1915, oil and metalleaf paintings on canvas by Hilma…
From behaviors of Little Rock, Arkansas, police, cited by the department since 2007. The internal reports were made public in October, following an investigation of the killing of Bobby Moore,…
From a manuscript in progress. Smith’s chapbook, Zodiac B, was published by Ninepin Press in 2016. It is delightful to sit by the edge of the lake under the yellow…
From a list of accounts purged by Facebook for spam and “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” released by the company in October. Wake The Fuck UpNation in DistressViral Alternative NewsRight-Wing NewsAnti-MediaExposing the…
Top to bottom: “Flowers for Lisa #39: After Georges Braque,” “Flowers for Lisa #62: After Louise Bourgeois,” “Flowers for Lisa #51,” and “Flowers for Lisa #55,” photographs by Abelardo Morell,…
From Casting Deep Shade, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press next month. Wright (1949–2016) was a poet from the Arkansas Ozarks whose 2010 work, One With Others, was…
From “Majed,” which appears in Elsewhere, Home, a collection that will be published next month by Black Cat. Aboulela is a novelist and playwright and was the first recipient of…
On the sixteenth of July, 1905, the steamer Roosevelt left New York Harbor for her northern voyage. Her course from the anchorage was noisy with the friendly greetings of every…
The prepositions you’re most likely to encounter after the title of a poem are “for” or “to” and sometimes “after”—“for my daughter”; “to Bobby”; “after Pound”; etc. They signify dedication,…
Years ago, Ellie asked me to write the story of our friend Addie and the chili. The incident involved some bowls of chili, and more than one woman crying, in…