From 9-1-1 calls made in September by Patricia Upton, a resident of Kitsap County, Washington. operator: 9-1-1, what are you reporting? patricia upton: Yes, I need a officer to come…

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From comments that the British public submitted to the National Health Service in response to a call for suggestions on ways to improve its care. Tax the rich. Establish drop-in…

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From scientific findings awarded Ig Nobel Prizes since 2014. Fake medicine that causes painful side effects can be more effective than fake medicine that does not cause painful side effects.…

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From a reading delivered in November in Richmond, Virginia. We began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling…

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From David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials, which will be published this month by Abrams Books. The Portuguese producer Paulo Branco met Don DeLillo at the Estoril Film Festival. It was Branco’s…

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From his letter from the editor in the September 2024 issue of Reportagen. Translated from the German by Oscar Dorr. Dear Readers, “You’re killing trees!” runs an accusation often leveled…

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From Wildcat Dome, which will be published in March by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. She gets off the bus and walks for about…

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From a manuscript in progress. I used to think my grandmother peed pink. I would think it sitting on the toilet, hers, I was sure she had visited last. When…

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From a series of 144-word essays on Untitled Thought Project, Lacey’s Substack newsletter. This entry was published in October. I’ve been doing paperwork in Mexico City, signing thing after thing.…

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From Fierce Geometry, which was published in December 2022 by Get Fresh Books Publishing. Chilly: spring water on dust-streaked feet. Summer sky mosaic by an oak branch. Look, he points…

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From their introduction to Raritan on War, an anthology of writing from the journal Raritan, which will be published next month by Rutgers University Press. War challenges the limits of…

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From articles published in the American press about the explosions of thousands of communication devices in Lebanon and Syria in September. Israel allegedly detonated the devices remotely, wounding more than…

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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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