From factors professional athletes have invoked since 2000 in explaining why they tested positive for banned substances. Whiskey Ten burgers and two steaks from Mexico Uncastrated wild boar meat Deer…

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From an essay that considers the album It’ll End in Tears by This Mortal Coil, and is included in the collection Long Players, which was published in August by Bloomsbury.…

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During her time working as a chambermaid at a Venetian hotel in 1981, Calle took photographs of the rooms she was assigned to clean. The Hotel, which includes her observations…

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From a letter written by the avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas to his peer and friend Stan Brakhage in April 1966. It is included in the anthology Letters as Films, edited…

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From images released this summer by the Ukrainian military of female soldiers preparing for a parade celebrating thirty years of independence from the Soviet Union.

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From Flight and Metamorphosis, a poetry collection, which will be published in March by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Sachs (1891–1970) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Translated…

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From Everything and Less, which will be published next month by Verso. A version of this essay appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of American Literary History. There is a…

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From “One, Two, Three . . . Infinity,” an essay in the anthology Ways of Hearing, which will be published this month by Princeton University Press. My father wanted his own orchestra.…

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From Anecdotes, a collection of vignettes that originally appeared in Kleist’s newspaper Berliner Abendblätter, which began publication in 1810. Kleist took his own life the following year. The collection will…

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From “Stories to Black-and-White Sketches by Alex Katz,” translated from the German. the foam-born Drawings by Alex Katz, from the series Beauty Portfolio, 2017–19 © The artist/VAGA at Artists Rights…

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From emails sent to the City of Oakland last year about a wild peacock living in a North Oakland neighborhood. The records were obtained by Adrien Salzberg at MuckRock. I’ve…

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From Crazy Sorrow, a novel, which will be published this month by Simon and Schuster. Fall passed to winter passed to early spring. All of it mild—God’s little favor. Arthur…

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From “Sex with Robots: Therapeutic Challenges and Opportunities,” an online lecture presented by Twist, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Stout, and hosted by the International Online Sexology Supervisors. Digisexuality…

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From words that describe environmental phenomena that have entered colloquial usage since the Fifties, identified by the writer Isaac Pearlman. The Blob Drunken forest Firenado Earthshine Hotumn Cold stunning Relic…

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From vaccination incentives offered by governments and businesses around the world this year. $1.5 million A $1.4 million apartment Gold bars A Tesla Model 3 sedan A vacation to Palm…

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From Twice Alive, a poetry collection, which was published in May by New Directions. Aroused by her inaccessibility, he aches for more of her life to live inside him. Watching…

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From design images for The Third Eye, a robotic eye developed by Min-Wook Paeng, an industrial designer and student at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. The…

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From “Fish in a barrel: Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) from the Baltic Sea wreck of the royal Danish flagship Gribshunden (1495),” by Stella Macheridis et al., which appeared in the…

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From “Sources of Life,” which was published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Point. Jackson’s essay “Prayer for a Just War” appeared in the June issue of Harper’s Magazine.…

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From publishers’ descriptions of audiobooks recorded by Edmund Kemper for The Blind Project. Kemper was convicted of murdering his grandmother, grandfather, mother, and seven other girls and women between 1964…

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From interviews collected in On Dark and Bloody Ground, which will be published this month by West Virginia University Press. grace jackson: In the days of prosperity, you know, those…

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From “On Dating White Guys While Me,” an essay from the collection Don’t Let It Get You Down, which was published last month by Simon and Schuster. Holt was a…

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The short story was published in the Spring 2021 issue of Ploughshares. It was Communion Day when Pastor Short announced before the congregation his engagement to a woman who was…

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From actions taken by the producers, cast, and crew of hidden-camera television shows that have aired around the world since 2010. Set up a fake security checkpoint, stopped a migrant…

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From What Storm, What Thunder, which will be published in October by Tin House. I’m usually talkative, you see. Not in an annoying, over-the-top kind of way, but I have…

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From an article titled “Phenotypic Mimicry Distinguishes Cues of Mating Competition from Paternal Investment in Men’s Conspicuous Consumption,” which was published in April in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The…

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From a list of nicknames for defendants indicted in November 2020. The charges include racketeering conspiracy, illegal gambling, loan sharking, extortion, and drug trafficking. The Department of Justice alleges that…

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From a text-message exchange between a person in Charleston and the operator of the South Carolina Aquarium’s educational hotline. inquirer: I’m currently at the corner of Market and Meeting. What…

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