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.

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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…

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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…

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From ECLIPSE, a manuscript in progress. It began with black maps. Distant points of light.Connecting the dots, she could see shapes forming in the firmament.Fragments of bodies. An arm. A…

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“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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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From Big Cabin, which was published in July by Coffee House Press. I like it here in this cabin.I like looking out the windowat the pond and the trees beyondand…

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The Dancing Plague, a painting by Andy Harper, whose work was on view in January at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, in London. Courtesy the artist and Danese/Corey, New York City

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From an interview given to talkRADIO on June 25 by Boris Johnson, a former mayor of London and current British M.P. who, at the time of publication, was considered a…

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“Handkerchief 3,” “Handkerchief 2,” “Handkerchief 7,” and “Handkerchief 14,” ambrotypes by Susan Seubert, whose work was on view in May at Froelick Gallery, in Portland, Oregon. Courtesy the artist and…

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From Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, published this month by Simon and Schuster. Every quarter, the business leaders from Koch Industries’ various divisions…

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From research topics funded by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency between 2007 and 2012. The list was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists. BiomaterialsMetamaterialsFusion propulsion

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From the cockpit transcript of a Navy training flight near Seattle, in 2017. The exchange was released in May, following an investigation. Excerpts from the transcript were first published by…

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6th Lord of the Underworld, a mixed-media artwork by Joseph Burwell, whose work was on view last month at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, in New York City. © The artist. Courtesy…

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War Endures, a painting by Olive Ayhens, whose work will be on view in November at Bookstein Projects, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Bookstein Projects, New York…

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The Rest of Lord Byron, a painting by Miki Leal, whose work was on view in February at ARCOmadrid, in Madrid. Courtesy the artist and F2 Galería, Madrid

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By Lydia Davis, from a manuscript in progress. Her collection of essays, Essays One, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November. It takes me so long to…

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By Ed Skoog, from Travelers Leaving for the City, which will be published in March of next year by Copper Canyon Press.

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By Caleb Crain, from Overthrow, which will be published this month by Viking. Crain’s previous novel was Necessary Errors. A little before one, Leif’s phone gave the black?fly buzz that…

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From statements made about opioid use in Exit Wounds: A Survival Guide to Pain Management for Returning Veterans and Their Families, by Derek McGinnis, an Iraq War veteran. Exit Wounds is one of several…

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“The Hotel” (above) and “Hidden Stairs” (below), photographs by Travis Fox, from his series The Pines, which documents an abandoned Jewish summer resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York.…

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From the introduction to a forthcoming edition of her book On Michael Jackson, which was first published by Pantheon in 2006. In the first year of the twenty-first century my…

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From Lowest White Boy, published in May by West Virginia University Press. He lumbered around a friend’s neighborhood on the other side of the city, slow and friendly, a 250-pound…

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From This Land, which will be published this month by Viking. Ketcham is a journalist who reports on the American West. His most recent article for Harper’s Magazine, “The Rogue…

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From his novel Turbulence, published this month by Scribner. She woke to the dim stillness of the cabin. This had already happened several times, and each time what she had…

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From statements made by Joe Biden, current presidential candidate and former vice president, since he first ran for office in 1969.

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