From a correction issued by the Hamilton County, Indiana, chapter of Moms for Liberty. THE PARENT BRIGADE PARENT ADVOCACY through UNIFYING, EDUCATING, and EMPOWERING For parental rights at all levels…

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From a training manual for employees of the real estate investment company HomeVestors of America, which flips houses. Find the Pain. Pain is always a form of motivation. People in…

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From Wave House, which was published in June by Flood Editions. my mother, a near-invalid since she broke her leg, told me she heard singing from her bed upstairs. She’d…

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From The Wolves of Eternity, which was published this month by Harvill Secker. That night I dreamt about Dad. I didn’t very often, and when I woke up from the…

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From an interview with the British artist Tracey Emin, conducted by Laura Allsop, which was published in June by AnOther Magazine. laura allsop: Some of the figures in your works…

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From Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia, which was published this month by Semiotext(e). Translated from the French. Sleep, sleep, how? The passageway is shut. The door has disappeared. The wall…

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From A Year and a Day, which will be published next month by New York Review Books. Those who marry a widow may find themselves competing with a ghost. Years…

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From a ruling issued in June by the Court of King’s Bench in Saskatchewan, Canada, in a case brought by a grain buyer who claimed that a local farmer had…

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From “Abstraction and Nonsense,” which was published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Yale Review. A version of this essay was delivered as a lecture at Yale University’s Whitney…

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From “Memory Book,” which was published in the ninth issue of HEAT Series 3. The evening nurse calls to say he’s had a fall. That phrase. I was out with…

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From letters from readers published in The New York Times Magazine since 2021. Cool story. Great article! This is a stunningly well-written article. I’ve read and reread this article so…

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From “Omens,” which was published in the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Very early on in medical school, my classmates and I wrote answers to four questions…

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Ring the Alarm Jackson Lears chillingly demonstrates that the United States military favors neutral technocrats over conscientious officers when it comes to nuclear armaments [“Behind the Veil of Indifference,” Revision,…

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“Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future / And time future contained in time past.” I first read the famous opening lines of “Burnt Norton”—the first of T. S. Eliot’s…

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Anthem for a forgotten cohort

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The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I…

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Plumbing, the depths

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Lee Friedlander, who is among the most celebrated and quietly innovative living American photographers, is eighty-nine years old and was born in Aberdeen, Washington, a place once nicknamed the “Hell…

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The life of an Iranian exile

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Rules of Engagement Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne claim that Russia had warned the United States since the end of the Cold War that it would violate fundamental principles of…

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When Roxy Music was recording “Street Life” for the 1973 album Stranded, they hung a mic out the window of AIR Studios above Oxford Street, but they didn’t like the…

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From The Plague, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. On the opening page of his famous 1981 meditation, After Virtue, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre asks…

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From a report published in May by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General that outlines major disciplinary infractions committed by law enforcement officers in 2022. Vaping in a…

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From the Spring 2023 issue of The Massachusetts Review. Translated from the Spanish by Jeffrey Diteman and Shanta Lee. The nanny Fidelia Córdoba kept her rhythm in her tetas. She’d…

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From diary entries published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Dublin Review. january 1, 2022 Once again—the second year, the third, the fourth?—the Christmas cards never got sent. I…

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