From “License to Dine: 007 and the Real Exchange Rate,” a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which compares the evolution of James Bond’s salary with that…

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From “Animal, Vegetable, Capital,” an essay that appeared in Issue 3 of Lux Magazine. Recently, following some rounds of trial and error in search of food that wouldn’t upset my…

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From Portrait of an Unknown Lady, a novel, which will be published next month by Catapult. Translated from the Spanish. I had been working in the art valuations department at…

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From “Why yachting families make great climate caretakers,” which was published in November on the website Superyacht Life. The average superyacht is estimated to produce 7,020 tons of carbon dioxide…

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From a list of accidental damage done to works of art since 2000, collected in Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists, and the Art World, which will be published this…

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From A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, a poetry collection, which was published in April 2021 by Wave Books. You want money to flow into the house like water…

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From “How to Be Married,” an essay in the collection How to Be Normal, which will be published next month by Belt Publishing. For some of us, there’s a season…

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From Pure Colour, a novel, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mira left home. Then she got a job at a lamp store. The lamp…

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From Little Elegies for Sister Satan, a poetry collection, which was published in May 2021 by New Directions. Here, Sister, it can be said that good-by means hello, day night,…

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From Corruptible, a book of non-fiction, which was published in November 2021 by Scribner. 1. Steve Raucci was far from the top of the district pecking order. He made $37,500…

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From Sentence, a memoir, which will be published next month by Viking. The entire time I was in prison, I owned a typewriter, and it was on this typewriter that…

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From fund-raising emails sent by the campaign of former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for a second term in 2021. I’m going to level with you:…

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From “7417 Hollywood Boulevard,” which was published in October 2021 in the fourth volume of his All Night Menu series, a history of Los Angeles in five installments. Each booklet…

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From an October 2021 analysis of immunization data by the Salt Lake County Health Department, in Utah, demonstrating how COVID-19 vaccination rates vary by astrological sign. sign percentage fully vaccinated…

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From a statement made in July 2021 by Mike Knox, a Houston City Council member. A situation has developed recently regarding the replacement of my official city photograph. Many of…

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From a 2018 study commissioned by the U.S. State Department to investigate claims that an auditory weapon was being deployed against American diplomats in Cuba. The study was published in…

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From Bird: Exploring the Winged World, which was published in November 2021 by Phaidon Press. The photograph originally appeared in The Budgerigar in 2014. Wild budgerigars are green. This is…

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From the titles of books published since Joy of Cooking was released in 1931. The Joy of Love The Joy of Sex The Joy of Sweat The Joy of Efficiency…

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From Last Letter to a Reader, an essay collection, which will be published in May by And Other Stories. I have my own way of assessing the worth of a…

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From a speech published in the book El arte de la distorsión. Vásquez is the author, most recently, of the story collection Songs for the Flames. Translated from the Spanish.…

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From a conversation about Afghanistan between the Iranian writers Salar Abdoh and Mohammad Hossein Jafarian, which was published in September by Guernica. salar abdoh: Do you think that America was…

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From Trapped in the Present Tense, which will be published next month by Counterpoint Press. It’s possible to construct a statistical mosaic of American life out of the 332 million…

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From a conversation between Olaf Scholz and two eleven-year-olds, Pauline and Romeo, who were interviewing candidates for chancellor of Germany. The exchange aired in September on Late Night Berlin. Scholz…

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From an essay that appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of The Threepenny Review. Yesterday, while on extended hold with an appliance store, I deleted dead people from my Contacts.…

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From Fight Night, a novel, which was published in October by Bloomsbury. Almost every day Grandma gets a call about someone she knows being dead. You can tell because she…

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From prompts in 642 Things to Write About, a book distributed to seniors at Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio. In September, after parents complained that the book asked students…

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From the 2021 Red Suit Survey, which polled hundreds of professional Santas in the United States. What made you decide to be a Santa? I had the look I had…

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From Issue 14 of Lana Turner. When I was almost a woman the men in the radio called someone I thought might be me an angel and a baby. I…

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