From a speech delivered by Darryl Daniels, the sheriff of Clay County, Florida. A video of the speech was posted on the department’s Facebook page in June. Hey, folks. Me…

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From news reports of behaviors by wild turkeys across the United States between 2015 and 2019. Tearing up gardens Breaking off tree branches Chasing dogs Blocking traffic by gathering into…

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From Breaking Bread with the Dead, which was published last month by Penguin Press. Navigating life in the internet age is a lot like doing battlefield triage. There are days…

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From Angels & Saints, which was published last month by New Directions. Surprisingly little was originally known about the angels. They are mentioned fewer than two hundred times in the…

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From a conversation between Vladimir Alexeev, a data journalist, and GPT-3, a language generator developed by the artificial-intelligence laboratory OpenAI. GPT-3 learned to respond to questions by analyzing online data.…

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From The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, published this month by Archway Editions. The two-act play was written in response to the Broadway musical Hamilton, which Miranda composed based on a…

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From Having and Being Had, a book of non-fiction, which was published last month by Riverhead Books. Every year, financial advisers come to campus to meet with faculty, but I…

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From Collected Stories, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. “What did we say? Forty-nine by twenty-two?” He held the measuring rod open in his hands.…

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From Fathoms: The World in the Whale, which was published in July by Simon and Schuster. Many international collecting institutions aim to feature a blue whale among their centerpieces. Suspended…

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From reports of weapons used by demonstrators and police officers in Portland, Oregon, where authorities have repeatedly used force to break up crowds protesting the police killing of George Floyd.…

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From Willamette, a poetry collection, which is forthcoming from Knopf. Vertical lift in the Oregon Sunshine Makes for a perennial Escape route Black walnut trees are memory and skid They…

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From “12 Sides,” an essay published in the Summer 2020 issue of Maggot Brain, a magazine published by Third Man Records. It also appeared in Sante’s collection Maybe the People…

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From Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, a collection of essays, which will be published next month by W. W. Norton. We live in an era…

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From The Book of Atlantis Black, which was published last month by Tin House Books. 1. Once, when my older sister Nancy was twelve, she told me she’d decided to…

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From surveillance measures taken by governments and institutions around the world in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Connected patient case numbers with location data Deployed drones to scold pedestrians…

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From a lawsuit filed in June by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle alleging that an upcoming Netflix film about Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, depicts Sherlock…

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From For Now, which will be published this month by Yale University Press as part of the Why I Write series. A version of the essay was delivered at Yale…

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From Self-Portrait with Russian Piano, a novel, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the German. You ask me whether I still keep up…

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From sign-offs in the correspondence of the philosopher collected in Letters and Other Texts, which was published in July by Semiotext(e). Wishes, wishes, wishes Friendship and wishes Thinking of your…

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From first names given to babies born around the world during the early months of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Corona Corona Kumar Corona Kumari Covid Covid Marie Covid Rose Coviduvidapdap…

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From CV Dazzle, a project by Adam Harvey that demonstrates how makeup, hair styling, and accessories can be used to foil facial recognition technology. Harvey ran the below looks through…

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From the headlines of advice columns published in the New York Times since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic. If You’ve Got Lemons, Make Limoncello How to Raise a…

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From an interview of Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, by Sara Eisen, the cohost of Closing Bell on CNBC, conducted in June. sara eisen: Larry, I…

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From Things to Do in Hell, a poetry collection, which will be published next month by Coffee House Press. The airplane inside us was running out of pretzels We took…

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From FCC complaints filed between 2016 and 2017 that allege inappropriate behavior by CNN host Don Lemon. The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and published…

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From A More Perfect Reunion, which was published in June by Bold Type Books. Even before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, many were debating the utility of pacifist resistance.…

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From In the Land of Good Living, a memoir, which was published last month by Knopf. At my Miami Catholic school, we didn’t have snow days, naturally. We had hurricane…

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From a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting held on June 2 using Zoom, a videoconferencing platform, which lasted seven hours. Richard Tefank is the executive director of the commission, Mike…

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