From his introduction to a new edition of Fear and Loathing in America, by Hunter S. Thompson, which was published this spring by Simon & Schuster. In 1971, when I…

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From Girl, 1983, which will be published next month by W. W. Norton. Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. There was a student I’ll call John. We went to…

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From The Xenotext: Book 2, which will be published this month by Coach House Books. Astronauts fear it. Biologists fear it. It is not human. It lives in isolation. It…

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From Name, which was published in April by Semiotext(e). Translated from the French by Lauren Elkin.  Little bottles of neon-yellow liquid, the scent of pastis. Paregoric elixir, or tincture of…

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From outgoing executive editor Jim Hicks’s essay in the Spring 2025 issue of The Massachusetts Review. Back in the spring of 2009, shortly after taking this job, I met with…

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From a work in progress. You have kissed the wig. Have stood between the window and its drapery and looked out onto the street like a spy at his assassin,…

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From a statement he prepared before his death. Shabat was a Palestinian journalist reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza, where he was killed in March by the Israel Defense Forces.…

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From an essay that appears for the first time in English in Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: A Spiritual Reappraisal, 1946–1955, a collection of his pseudonymous essays for the Yiddish…

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From a Department of Justice report on the Tulsa race massacre that was published in January, before President Biden left office, and conducted by its Cold Case Unit, Civil Rights…

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From Speaking in Tongues, by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, which will be published this month by Liveright. j. m. coetzee: I was writing something yesterday, concentrating intensely on getting into words…

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From What Is Wrong with Men, a study of how portrayals of the American man have changed in films starring Michael Douglas, which will be published next month by Pantheon.…

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From posts shared in February on the subreddit r/fednews, a “platform for U.S. Federal employees to discuss work-related topics, share perspectives, and stay informed.” I work in grants and since…

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From The Essential C. D. Wright, which will be published this month by Copper Canyon Press. clouds jammed into the foreground     big toe in the suckhole with all our know-how…

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By Hélène Bessette, from Lili Is Crying, which will be published next month by New Directions. Translated from the French by Kate Briggs. It’s like this, says Lili. I left…

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From a press conference given in March by Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario. reporter: As you have acknowledged, a trade war is going to hurt. Food-bank use was already…

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From Runagate, a collection of poems that draw on archival records of chattel slavery. The book will be published this month by Duke University Press. jack (and paul) Escaped by…

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From Earthly Materials, which will be published this month by Mariner Books. Assuming 128 grams a day and a lifetime in the vicinity of seventy-five years, you’ll leave behind around…

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From Issue 11 of Deadlines and Divine Distractions, which was published in December. Dearest (If I may): Do (and here I’m charitably speculating that my previous letters have for some…

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From interviews given to a researcher by six Ukrainian women in May and June of last year and provided to Harper’s Magazine. The researcher’s identity has been withheld to protect…

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From “Notes on Baudelaire’s Parisian Tableaux,” which was published for the first time in English in the Fall 2024 issue of October. Translated from the French by Michael Krimper. Baudelaire…

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From The Rose, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. Me & Amanda went to see David Blaine the night of the Scorpio Eclipse. He held his breath…

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From Silkworm’s Pansori, which was published last month by The Song Cave. Persimmons on a leafless tree: unlaid eggs in a butchered hen. The old woman picks from the sagging…

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From Sister Europe, which was published last month by Knopf. Demian was among the first guests to arrive, taking a taxi. He had intended to get through the evening by…

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From Silent Catastrophes, which was published last month by Random House. Translated from the German by Jo Catling. Few have reflected as thoroughly as Elias Canetti upon the fateful processes…

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From Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth, by Maggie Nelson, which will be published this month by Wave Books. In speech therapy we played a board game in which…

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From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we…

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From reports of dreams collected in The Third Reich of Dreams, by Charlotte Beradt, a new translation of which will be published next month by Princeton University Press. Beradt gathered…

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From a lecture delivered last year by Kristian Vistrup Madsen at the University of Applied Arts, in Vienna. There’s nobody like Vermeer. Or is there? His modest known output of…

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