From “Romance Without Love, Love Without Romance,” which was published in the Spring 2021 issue of Liberties. I have only ever had one friend as crazy as I am. Once,…

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From an April CBC Radio interview of Timothy Jones, conducted by Chris Howden and Carol Off. Jones is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. chris howden:…

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From Green Green Green, a book of essays, which was published last month by Nightboat Books. There is a deathliness built into the linguistic history of green. As in, you…

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From posts on DQN Today, a Japanese website that allows users to drop pins on neighborhood maps and note noise or other disturbances. Translated from the Japanese. Several families are…

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From The Republic of False Truths, which will be published next month by Knopf. Translated from the Arabic. “If a worker wants to demonstrate in Tahrir Square, I don’t give…

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From Fugitive Atlas, a poetry collection, which was published in October 2020 by Graywolf Press. Speak the body’s thrift, the blood and breath sustained by a candle flame, remembrances encircle…

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From The Complete Memoirs, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In recent days, attacks on my ideas and my poetry have multiplied. Within and outside of…

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From an interview conducted by a journalist with his former marijuana dealer, published in April by the Riverfront Times. Chimchards, who now buys weed legally from a medical dispensary, refers…

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From a study titled “Modelling the maximal active consumption rate and its plasticity in humans—perspectives from hot dog eating competitions,” which was published last summer in Royal Society Biology Letters.…

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From text messages about women that were exchanged in a group chat of police officers in Eureka, California, between March and August 2020. That bitch at Motel 6 is fucking…

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From Let the Record Show, a history of ACT UP New York, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It’s March 2018. I have been struggling with…

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From a lawsuit filed in February in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Panda Express and Alive Seminars, a company hired by the fast-food chain to run a four-day self-improvement…

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From emails sent to Alabama state representative Jeremy Gray regarding a bill to legalize the practice of yoga in K–12 schools, which was banned in 1993. I have only done…

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From Je vous pardonne tous vos péchés, a collection of French priests’ observations about the sacrament of confession. The book was published in March by Éditions de l’Opportun. The following…

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From the livestream of a Michigan district-court hearing held in March, in which Coby Harris was charged with assaulting his girlfriend, the complaining witness. assistant prosecutor deborah davis: Who called…

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From an appeal in a lawsuit against Costco, filed in the Arizona Supreme Court in March. Greg Shepherd visited his physician for a checkup and a refill of his usual…

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From House of Sticks, a memoir, which will be published this month by Scribner. Seven o’clock on a Saturday morning, a few years after my family left Vietnam for Ridgewood,…

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From the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, an online resource that began as a project of the Oxford English Dictionary. meat puppet: the human body; a physical human being, especially…

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From “Memory Store,” collected in Alien Stories, which was published last month by BOA Editions. One of the things he found most fascinating about America was that there were Memory…

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From an assignment at Shallowater High School in Texas titled “Rules for Chivalry,” which required female students to “demonstrate to the school how the code of chivalry and standards set…

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From descriptions of non-fungible tokens created and sold since December 2020. An NFT is a digital item with a unique tag that is stored using blockchain technology. A tweet from…

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From the menu of Good Fortune Burger in Toronto, which named all of its dishes after office supplies so that customers could request reimbursement from their employers. Ergonomic Aluminum Laptop…

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From an email to Vince Neilstein, a co-editor at Metal Sucks magazine, sent by a reader in Florida who calls himself Prince Midnight. My uncle Filip died in the Nineties…

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From the poetry collection A Feeling of And, which is forthcoming from Black Square Editions. The room tone not quite innocent outside, abundant cloud cover one player requests the subject…

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From The Book of Difficult Fruit, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1. My mother’s sister died of breast cancer when she was thirty-four and I…

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From “The Assistant’s Loft,” an essay from a revised edition of the anthology Goodbye to All That, which was published last month by Seal Press. She had a name, but…

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From a list compiled by the Leibniz Institute for the German Language of more than a thousand German words that have been coined since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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From extracts of official CIA documents that the agency cited in a report asking officers to use clearer and more concise language. The report was released in November. In view…

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