From an interview of Tim Meyers, a retired cinema worker, conducted by Sebastian Becerra for the first issue of the zine Cashiers du Cinéma in August 2023. sebastian becerra: When…

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From an interview included in RoboDoc, a documentary series released in August about the making of the 1987 film RoboCop, which starred Peter Weller as a cybernetically enhanced police officer.…

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From entries in The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, which will be published in April by New York Review Books. Another good day to think and be thankful for. There is…

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From Georgia’s August 2023 indictment of members of the grassroots movement Defend the Atlanta Forest, in which prosecutors charged more than sixty individuals under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations…

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From an account by Dr. Hammam Alloh that was told to Maya Rosen and published by Jewish Currents on October 30, 2023. Alloh was killed by an Israeli airstrike in…

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From leaflets distributed in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces between October 13 and November 16, 2023. As of this writing, the United Nations estimates that more than 60 percent…

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From a fictional dialogue with his father in his novel Change, which will be published this month by Harvill Secker. Translated from the French by John Lambert. Before meeting Elena…

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From the original description of Need for Spirit Drink & Drive Simulator published in Nintendo’s online store in October. overview: Get ready to embark on a wild journey as a…

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From Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets, which will be published this month by Litmus Press. Translated from the Arabic by Sam Wilder. You can tell one…

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From a statement explaining the inclusion of a tape recorder in the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1968, exactly fifty years ago, my father passed away, leaving…

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From Remotely, which will be published this month by Yale University Press. We try to think of ourselves existing in history, like people waiting in line. More or less patient,…

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From comments about the fall 2023 bedbug outbreak in Paris, as recorded in news reports. Having bedbugs is no laughing matter. No one is safe. Bedbugs do not rest. They…

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From journal entries by Maram Humaid, an AlJazeera.com journalist in Gaza, written during the first week of the Israel–Hamas war. OCTOBER 9 I’m the mother of two children, one of…

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From resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly since 1982 for which the United States and Israel were the only two member states, of more than 150 nations, to…

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From audio captured by the body camera of Seattle police officer Daniel Auderer in January 2023. Auderer is recorded talking to Mike Solan, the president of the Seattle Police Officers…

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From Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes, which was republished this month by McNally Editions. “Heavens, Harriet,” Mrs. Klein said when Aunt Harry gave her the hot rum drink, “I need…

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From emails exchanged by Secret Service agents between March 2021 and November 2022 regarding president Joe Biden’s dogs, Major and Commander. We have noticed Major getting more aggressive Be careful…

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From tweets posted by the Iowa senator Chuck Grassley since February 2012. Just turned to History Channel. No history. I used to get history. Why do we have such a…

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From Ascent of the Mothers, which was published in November by Wave Books.   Lucent transitions, the heat And draft of four stories, how did I get here so quickly?…

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From “The Impulse Toward Autobiographical Fiction,” a 1963 lecture that is being published for the first time in the collection The Writer as Illusionist, edited and introduced by Alec Wilkinson,…

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From Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I’ve always loved snakes. Love includes fear—for everyone, I think,…

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From “Four Tales,” which was published in the Fall 2023 issue of The Massachusetts Review. Everyone knows that to be a self-respecting Eastern European émigré writer, you must learn to…

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From the transcript of an August 2023 ceremony marking the unveiling of a time capsule discovered under a nineteenth-century monument at the United States Military Academy at West Point. jennifer…

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From Up Late, which was published last month by W. W. Norton. I was working as a lawyer in Poland for a large firm trying to cash in on the deregulation…

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From a letter sent in January by a young girl living in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Dear Cumberland Police Department, I took a sample of a cookie and carrots that I…

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From blog posts by Sam Altman since 2013. Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. My best advice for communicating clearly is to first make sure your…

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From The Archive of Feelings, which was published this month by Other Press. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. It’s a source of joy every time, to find the…

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From reviews of the children’s animated television series Bluey published in media outlets since 2021. Beloved kids’ program Cute and highly relatable A real gem A damn good show Instantly…

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