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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From a virtual Sacramento Superior Court hearing held on February 25. clerk: Hello, Mr. Green? scott green: Yes. clerk: Hi. Are you available for trial? It kinda looks like you…

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From “The Anti-Extinction Engine,” which appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of The Yale Review. In Good Morning Revolution—­a volume of Langston Hughes’s contributions to revolutionary magazines—­there is a small…

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From “Mookie and Me,” a short story, which was published in the Winter 2020 issue of The Missouri Review. The bleachers at this little alternative college are full of kids…

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From the lyrics to a rap performed by Daniel Kritenbrink, the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, in a music video he released in February for Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year.…

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From images in “From the Bottlecap to the Bottleneck: Frequent Esophageal Impaction of Bottlecaps Among Young Males in a Small University Town,” by Mattis Bertlich et al., which was published…

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From the poetry collection A Better Place Is Hard to Find, which was published in October 2020 by The Song Cave. I thought I saw a bee’s Nest made of…

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From public comments sent to government officials in Atascadero, California, where a ten-foot, two-hundred-pound monolith appeared in December and was torn down by a Christian group a day later. The…

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From reports of deaths that have resulted from attempted pranks and stunts on social media since 2018. Overdosed on Benadryl while attempting to hallucinate Asphyxiated while attempting to pass out…

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From On Violence and On Violence Against Women, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The times we live in oblige any feminist to reckon with…

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From Finding the Raga, which was published last month by New York Review Books. 1. What is a raga? To answer this question we must first acquire a sense of…

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From instructions for a remote math test at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario in October 2020. Complete the practice quiz. After the practice quiz, start the setup test. Complete the…

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From a conversation with Werner Herzog, conducted by Ian Michna for Jenkem, a skateboarding magazine. ian michna: Can you hear me? werner herzog: I can see you. ian michna: You…

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From the essay “Dear Friends,” which was published in the Winter 2021 issue of The Sewanee Review. i have a friend who has never read a single word I have…

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From “Inside Stories,” an essay published in the Winter 2021 issue of Five Points. I used to visit an elderly woman who lived in a single room in an apartment…

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From The Killing Hills, which will be published in June by Grove Press. A few miles down the blacktop, Mick slowed for a man walking, then steered around him and…

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From a conversation on Facebook that was published in a January opinion of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The court suspended Winston Sitton from practicing law for four years for making…

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From actions taken during legislative sessions by members of Taiwan’s parliament between 2001 and 2021. Tore up proposals Unplugged loudspeakers to prevent the passage of bills Sprayed members of the…

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From reviews of superhero movies published between 2016 and 2020. Spider-Man 2 is a superhero movie for people who don’t watch superhero movies Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a…

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