From comments made by Eric Adams since he was elected mayor of New York City last year. The most important city on the globe has become a laughingstock We’re so…

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From Bloom & Other Poems, which was published in July by New Directions. Translated from the Chinese. inside stone is stone and the memory of plate tectonics inside brick is…

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From audio recordings played by two trash cans in Malmö, Sweden, when waste is deposited. Mmm, more Mmm, a bit more to the left next time Ooh, yeah, right there…

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From Google’s style guide for developers. passive voice: Passive can be okay in the following instances: If your readers don’t need to know who’s responsible for the action. please: Using…

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From tweets by the Kenyan journalist posted in April and May, describing events in Western countries. Evidence mounts of war crimes by fighters loyal to Russian Slav warlord Vladimir Putin,…

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From Some of Them Will Carry Me, a collection of short stories, which will be published next month by Dorothy, a publishing project. When my mother dies, which will be…

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From remarks delivered at the PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers, which was held in May at the United Nations. ayad akhtar: The gravity of this moment is…

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From Campfires of the Dead and the Living, a short story collection, which will be published next month by 11:11 Press. “Is this your good shirt with the frayed collar…

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From an interview with Sam Kriss conducted by Justin E. H. Smith for The Point’s What Is X? podcast, which was released in May. Flat-earthers are conspiracy theorists who believe…

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From the essay “Bela’s Pilgrim,” which was published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Jewish Currents. Shayevich left Azerbaijan in the Nineties to seek asylum in the United States. As…

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From Kick the Latch, which will be published next month by New Directions. Before her husband died and her house burned down, Bicycle Jenny worked at Crocker’s, the slaughtering plant.…

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From promotional materials for Atomik Vodka. The Chernobyl Spirit Company is a social enterprise aiming to produce high-quality artisan spirits (“moonshine”) from land in the areas of Ukraine abandoned after…

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From a previously unpublished cartoon by Thomas Nast, an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly in the late nineteenth century. The sketch, completed in 1870, depicts Nast drawing on a woodblock while…

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From alleged behaviors for which politicians in the United Kingdom have resigned or been reprimanded since 1963. Being late for a meeting Protesting the expansion of an airport Leaking confidential…

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From his debut poetry collection, Late Life, which will be published this month by Silverfish Review Press. I would touch you tenderly And then touch myself tenderly As I wished…

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From the introduction to A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, a book about the author’s mother, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the French.…

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From Pure Life, a novel, which was published in May by Strange Light. She waited for him in Baggage Claim wearing a cowboy hat and a white blouse and a…

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From The Newlyweds, which will be published next month by Atria Books. For most of my mother’s life, she has lived in the house she was born in. It is…

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From “Whips and Chains,” which appeared in Issue 11 of The Fence. Back in February 2012, when I was a newly minted marketing executive at Random House U.K., I was…

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From an archived version of a blog post titled “How to Murder Your Husband,” which was allegedly written in 2011 by Nancy Brophy, who was put on trial in April…

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From reports of people living at airports. A German former pilot spent thirteen days in Viracopos–Campinas International Airport after he was dumped by a woman he met online. An Indian…

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From the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail.   The lumbering bumblebee is out Buttering up its bronze thighs With pollen’d orbs of echinacea. It’s a period piece, a Gap…

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From complaints received by New York City’s 311 helpline between February 2021 and February 2022. My neighbor is having loud sex and has kept me up for two days straight.…

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From a speech given by the Tennessee state senator in April during a debate on a bill to make camping along highways a misdemeanor. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I haven’t…

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From promotional materials for YBeU, a beauty and life-coaching business run by Alfreda Scheuer, a former CIA officer who oversaw the interrogation of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush…

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From an interview with Marcel, a chess player in New York City’s Washington Square Park, published in April on CAFÉ ANNE, Kadet’s website. This game has cost me a couple…

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From “In Moscow, Russians Face the Vertigo of War,” which was reported from Moscow and published in March by L’Obs. The names of some subjects have been changed by the…

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From descriptions of trips hosted by Young Pioneer Tours, which offers vacations to “destinations your mother would rather you stay away from.” south sudan budget tour The most affordable tour…

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