From “Translating Paul Blackburn,” published in The Next Loves, a collection of poetry that was released in September by Nightboat Books. Translated from the French by Lindsay Turner. Finally I…

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La Güera, a mixed-media artwork by Hugo Crosthwaite, whose work was on view in December at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Luis de Jesus Los Angeles

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From records of alleged behavior by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, as reported by unaccompanied minors, dating from 2009 to 2014. The A.C.L.U. Foundation of San Diego and Imperial…

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From My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide, out this month from Ecco. The book recounts the author’s interviews, conducted between October 2014 and November 2016, with…

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From The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, a work of criticism that will be published next month by Bloomsbury. In the midst of existence, most living things deny time.…

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Past behaviors, described and reported online, that individuals successfully lobbied Google to remove from its search results under the European Union’s “right to be forgotten” law. Publishing a poem on…

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“Composition with Painted Cutouts,” a photograph by Nico Krijno, whose work was on view in June at Elizabeth Houston Gallery, in New York City.

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From South American Journals, a collection of Ginsberg’s spiritual writing published last month by the University of Minnesota Press. This entry is the author’s account of an ayahuasca experience in…

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Our Town, a painting by Amy Bennett, whose work was on view in August at Miles McEnery Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Miles Mcenery Gallery, New…

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From Little Hill, which will be published in April by City Lights. I follow the sunlight around the lawn With a ridiculous plastic chair A chair has its task and…

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From sentences in movie reviews by James Patterson. I’m a little nuts and a little sickIt should be obvious that I like preposterous storiesStephen King commented that he doesn’t have…

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From an untitled essay in Book of Roy, a collection of photographs by Neil Drabble that was published in October by MACK. Tillman’s essay accompanies Drabble’s photographs of an American…

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The Sleepwalkers and Rope-a-Dope, mixed-media artworks by Deborah Roberts, whose work was on view in July at Stephen Friedman Gallery, in London. Courtesy the artist and The Studio Museum in…

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For Rebeca López, from Bleeding from All 5 Senses, published this month by White Pine Press. Translated from the Spanish by Cole Heinowitz. You were born from the sperm of…

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From Why I Write?, a collection of prose published this month by Karolinum Press. Hrabal (1914–1997) was a Czech writer known for his novels Closely Watched Trains and I Served…

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Workbench with Underwood, a painting by Dickon Drury, whose work was on view in August at Koppe Astner, in Glasgow, Scotland. Courtesy the artist; Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland; and Galerie…

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From reports of conditions in the New York City Housing Authority’s public-housing units since 2017. Unidentified children likely poisoned by lead paintMold in the apartments of asthmaticsBroken air conditioners in…

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Photographs by Stephen Gill from The Pillar, a monograph published this year by Nobody Books. Gill photographed a pillar and the birds it attracted on his property in Skåne, Sweden,…

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From 97,196 Words, a collection of the author’s non-fiction writing, published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This story was written as a statement of intent for a film…

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From an interview with Vladimir Nabokov conducted by Alberto Ongaro in 1966 for L’Europeo, included in Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor, a book…

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From interviews of two residents of the Ibis Golf and Country Club by Palm Beach Post reporter Tony Doris. Doris interviewed the homeowners, Siobhan Casimano and Cheryl Katz, after Casimano…

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From Night Boat to Tangier, a novel published in September by Doubleday. At the Café Central, in Plaza de la Constitución, he drank café solo and waited. Around him there was…

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From descriptions of behaviors of magistrates at the Virginia Beach Magistrate Office. The accusations were included in a complaint filed this year by a female magistrate against the Office of…

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From Daybook 1918: Early Fragments, which was published in September by Northwestern University Press. Foix (1893–1987) was a poet and a journalist engaged in the Catalan nationalist movement. Edited and…

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“Untitled #8, To Want for Nothing,” and “Untitled #3, To Want for Nothing,” photographs by Laura Letinsky, whose work was on view last month at Yancey Richardson, in New York…

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A venison of loveliness, a painting by Sanam Khatibi, whose work is on view this month at P.P.O.W., in New York City. Courtesy the artist; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; and P.P.O.W.,…

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“Lucy Watering at Night, 1973,” a photograph by Michael Jang, from his monograph, Who Is Michael Jang?, which was published in September by Atelier Éditions. Jang’s work is on view…

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Louder, Power Tower, and Street Light, paintings by An Gyungsu, whose work was on view in June at PIBI Gallery, in Seoul. Courtesy the artist and PIBI Gallery, Seoul

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