From the transcript of a telephone interview with Louise Glück conducted by Adam Smith, chief scientific officer of Nobel Media, after she won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. louise…

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From behaviors engaged in by politicians and other government employees around the world during virtual meetings last year. Removed her shirt and bra during a meeting with her political party,…

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From an October 2020 Instagram post by the owner of Balthazar, a French brasserie in New York City. One night at Balthazar, four Wall Street businessmen ordered the restaurant’s most…

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From an image of a dinosaur fossil that was recently discovered in northeastern China. The fossil, described in research published in October on the website bioRxiv, is the only known…

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From How High—That High, a collection of short stories, which will be published this fall by Soho Press. To get a bit of food, the Rotches went out in the…

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From FM 7-22 Holistic Health and Fitness, a training field manual for soldiers. Each sentence was taken from the 244-page guide, which was revised and republished last October by the…

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From video reviews posted to Steve1989MREInfo, a YouTube channel on which Steve Thomas evaluates military rations and MREs (meals ready to eat). concentrated beef for beef tea, second boer war…

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From a deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell taken in April 2016 by attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, who alleges that Maxwell recruited her and other underage girls as part of a sex-trafficking…

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From Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems, which was published in November by Nightboat Books. ignites in me plenitude that scents rain. Sense the sky is full of surprising…

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From a sermon given in July 2020 by the minister at Grace Community Church, a megachurch in Sun Valley, California. The church had a coronavirus outbreak in October. We are…

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From geoengineering projects proposed by researchers between 2012 and 2020 to prevent or mitigate the impact of climate change. Plant trees Grow waxier plants Paint roofs, roads, sidewalks, and buildings…

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From Wild Swims, a collection of short stories, which will be published next month by Graywolf Press. Translated from the Danish. There’s a stubble field in front of the rental…

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By Ryozui Ryosen, a fourteenth-century Japanese Zen monk. The poem is the first recorded mention of ramen in Japan and was deciphered last year by Hajime Yoshizawa, an associate professor…

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From Let Me Tell You What I Mean, a collection of essays that will be published next month by Knopf. The essay originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in…

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From postscripts of letters written by Robert Lowell to his daughter Harriet, collected in The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979, which was published last year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. cat for…

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From a September town-council meeting in Swastika, New York, during which members discussed a request to change the town’s name. The name dates to at least 1913, when it appeared…

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From “The Secret to Chukjibeop,” an article published in the May 20 edition of Rodong Sinmun, a state-run newspaper in North Korea. Chukjibeop refers to the power to bend time…

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From a letter sent in August by the chairman of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Greetings from our nation’s front…

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From the Everyday Objects collection by Tiffany & Co., which the company says was developed to turn “ordinary” and “utilitarian” objects into luxury “works of art.” paper cups Inspired by…

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From a 2017 conversation between Yoram Ne’eman, then chief superintendent of the Israeli police, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel. The police were investigating whether Netanyahu had been…

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From remarks made by U.S. judges in 2019, which appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of the Judicial Conduct Reporter, published by the National Center for State Courts. These remarks…

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From marketing copy for Civvil, a technology company that connects gig workers with property owners and local governments seeking assistance with the eviction of tenants who have fallen behind on…

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From TikTok videos of customers ordering the Travis Scott Meal. The meal, which includes a Quarter Pounder, french fries, and a Sprite, is a collaboration between McDonald’s and Travis Scott,…

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From a decision issued earlier this year by the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board of Ontario. The board was responding to a complaint filed by a patient about the…

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From entries on Wikipedia written by the user AmaryllisGardener. AmaryllisGardener, a nineteen-year-old from North Carolina, has written more than twenty-three thousand articles for Scots Wikipedia but cannot speak Scots, a…

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From the anthology A Very German Christmas: The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time, which was published in September by New Vessel Press. Translated from the…

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From a speech delivered in September to the Boca Raton School Board, in Florida, by an elementary school teacher concerned about the behavior of parents during their children’s remote-learning classes.…

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From a manuscript in progress. I never doubted you’d return. You’re a man of your word And this is your kingdom. But recently I’ve feared you’d find me Looking like…

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