By Rachel Cusk, from Kudos, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Cusk is the author of nine previous novels. We entered the restaurant and sat…
From a table detailing the reported shapes of UFOs in sightings in the United States since 2001. The table is included in the UFO Sightings Desk Reference, which was self-published…
By Rodney Koeneke, from Body & Glass, which was published last month by Wave Books. Liver, recover. Years pass and are salutary. A thin scum coats the ornamental pond quickening…
He stayed drunk the first week. He paced up and down the apartment howling, and Mrs. Voltaire hid behind the stove. After a week he went back to the office…
In the uneasy months following 9/11, the Bush Administration provoked a minor controversy when it announced the name of a new office dedicated to protecting the United States from terrorism…
Minutes for which food-storage containers must resist mauling to be designated “bear resistant” : 60 Portion of containers tested by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee that bears are able to…
By Abby Norman, from Ask Me About My Uterus, which was published last month by Nation Books. Norman is an editor at Futurism, a science and technology website.
From descriptions of professional tasks performed by Sandeep Rehal for Harvey Weinstein while she was employed as his personal assistant. She held the position from 2013 to 2015. In January,…
From a letter written by Marina Tsvetaeva to Boris Pasternak in 1927. Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) was a poet. The letter was included in the February issue of the PN Review. Translated…
From the style guide of the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist news website. The guide, which was reportedly written by Andrew Anglin, the site’s founder and editor, was acquired in…
By Andrea Brady, from a work in progress. Brady’s most recent book is The Strong Room (Crater Press).