From Paper of Wreckage, an oral history of the New York Post by Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo, which was published in October by Atria Books. jami bernard: There was…

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From Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi, which will be published in February by Ecco. On December 26, 2022, while Kureishi was on vacation in Rome, he fainted, injured his spine in the…

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By Orhan Pamuk, from Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009–2022, which was published last month by Knopf. Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap. I am sure that somewhere…

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From Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, an improvisation on the literary canon, which was published in August by Soft Skull Press. i. The dream is to create a…

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From Homeland, which was published in September by Crown. In his 2005 book Planet of Slums, Mike Davis pointed out that, since the Seventies, the world’s poor countries have urbanized…

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From Selected Amazon Reviews, which was published last month by Semiotext(e). I was at a loss, for none of the yarns I had on hand were anywhere near the natural…

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From The Bewitched Bourgeois, which will be published next month by New York Review Books. Translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti. One morning, the noted painter Lucio Predonzani, forty-six,…

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From Tantrums in Air, which will be published in June by The Song Cave. If, as I suspect, all language has died for me, at least for the time being,…

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From Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures, which will be published this month by Doubleday. Rebecca was an unusual White House inhabitant for two reasons. The first was…

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From letters exchanged by John Berger and his son Yves, collected in Over to You, which will be published this month by Pantheon Books. Yves, I send two “postcards.” One…

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From Mourning a Breast, which was published in July by New York Review Books. Translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley. Every fall, my friends and I get together to…

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From the introduction to a new edition of By Night in Chile, a novella by Roberto Bolaño that was published in 2000 by Editorial Anagrama. The book was translated from…

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From a letter sent in August by Rachel Chambliss, the executive director of operations for the Satanic Temple, to members of the Osceola County school board in Florida. Dear members,…

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From Eurotrash, which was published last month by Liveright. Translated from the German by Daniel Bowles. Up and up we went, into the ever-thinning air. On each side, the craggy…

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From Suzanne and Louise, which will be published this month by Magic Hour Press. Translated from the French by Christine Pichini. Louise and Suzanne, old ladies, sisters: short, gray-haired, stooped,…

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from Thingking, which was published in August by Factory Hollow Press. One third of Pompeii remains interred, preserved for future methods of discerning it. Should I too leave a few…

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From Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, which will be published in December by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Among the recent discoveries of neuroscience is that radical self-delusion…

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From an exchange on Signal between Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and SiegedSec, a group of self-described “gay…

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From V13: Chronicle of a Trial, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Carrère compiled the following text from the testimony of victims at the trial…

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From Everything Flirts, which will be published next month by the University of Iowa Press. I drove from Madison back to St. Louis, took the usual exit from the freeway,…

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From reports about the circumstances of the deaths of cryptocurrency millionaires and billionaires. A cryptocurrency influencer accused of perpetrating one of the largest crypto scams in Spanish history was found…

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From Slaveroad, which will be published this month by Scribner. Lucy Gantt Sheppard brings the glass teapot into a room too full of furniture to breathe. A woman not small,…

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From Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, a new edition of which was published in July by Graywolf Press. There is a button on the remote control called fav. You can…

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From “The Blushing Brain,” a study conducted at the University of Amsterdam that was published in July in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Sixty-three female adolescents aged 16–20 from…

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From Liontaming in America, which was published last month by New Directions. I was reaching for a passage to the world they came from, the bodies slowly turning into the…

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From Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis, which will be published this month by Dey Street. At the end of Jordan Long’s sophomore year at Morehouse—a…

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From L’instant précis où Monet entre dans l’atelier, which was published in 2022 by Éditions de Minuit. Translated from the French in May by Pauline Cochran. I was so taken…

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