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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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.,…
“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…
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
Friend: Jana, a mixed-media artwork by Ann Toebbe, whose work was on view in July at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Tibor De…
From an interview with Neil Davidson published in the Summer 2019 issue of New Politics. Davidson teaches at the University of Glasgow. His most recent book, We Cannot Escape History,…
From The Collector of Leftover Souls, a collection of non-fiction published this month by Graywolf Press. This story, first published in the Brazilian magazine Época, is based on a week the…
From “The Fool,” which appears in The Fool and Other Moral Tales, a collection of stories published last month by New Directions. Translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson. I…
A photograph by Demetris Koilalous from Caesura: The Duration of a Sigh, a monograph about the experience of migrants who cross the Aegean Sea to Greece, which was published last…
From user reviews on Amazon of Pinot Meow, a non-alcoholic beet-based drink for cats that is marketed as “cat wine.” My cat loved itMy cats didn’t seem to like itMy…
From a manuscript in progress. Or the one drunken half-quarter grand uncle recallingThe sound speckled apples on his fabled real daddy’sCoastal orchard made falling multidimensionallyTo the vaguely salty combination of…
“Fent’s Prairie, near Salina, Kansas, Late May, 2018,” a photograph by Terry Evans, whose work was on view in March at Catherine Edelman Gallery, in Chicago. © The artist. Courtesy…
Three Trick Pony, a painting by David Hytone, whose work was on view in July at Gallery 16, in San Francisco. Courtesy the artist and Gallery 16, San Francisco
This is the story of a layover. Who tells that story? I’m telling it to you now. One January evening, my flight got delayed out of Louisiana, where I’d been…
From The Undying, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. There is no more tragic piece of furniture than a bed, how it falls so quickly from…
Private Domain, a mixed-media artwork by Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, whose work was on view in April at the Carlow University Art Gallery, in Pittsburgh.
Longing, To Hover and DT—Reminiscence, Will I Be Missed, paintings on burlap by Kaveri Raina, whose work was on view in August at Luhring Augustine, in New York City. © Kaveri…
By Benjamin Moser, from Sontag: Her Life and Work, which will be published by Ecco this month. “In the Freudian conception,” wrote one author, “as it gradually emerged through these…
“Destroyed House Op Noord 5,” a photograph of an installation assembled in an abandoned house, by Marjan Teeuwen, whose work is currently on view at Les Rencontres de la photographie…
From the December 30, 1979, entry in his diary, which was released in May by the George Washington University National Security Archive. Chernyaev, a member of the Central Committee of…
By Pico Iyer, from A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, out this month from Knopf. Iyer, a British-American essayist and novelist, has lived in Nara, Japan, since 1992. Japan is the…
From descriptions of dreams in The Grave on the Wall, a memoir by Brandon Shimoda, out this month from City Lights. The book is an elegy for the author’s grandfather…