From descriptions of behaviors considered by the Chinese government to be signs of extremism, as compiled in China Story Yearbook: Power, edited by Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Paul J. Farrelly,…

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Depend on the Morning Sun, a painting by Diana Copperwhite, whose work was on view in May at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and…

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“Swimming pool III, Tracks series, Bamako,” a photograph by François-Xavier Gbré, whose work was on view in March at Museo MAN d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy. © The artist and…

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“Floresta Negra #6” and “Floresta Negra #1,” photographs by Ruud van Empel, whose work was on view in June at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, in London. © The artist. Courtesy Huxley-Parlour Gallery,…

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A stone and a star, a painting by Hollis Heichemer, whose work was on view in May at Hollis Taggart, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Hollis Taggart,…

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GSENM: Slot Canyon #1, a mixed-media artwork by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, whose work was on view in February as part of the exhibition Borders, at James Cohan, in New York…

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From A Primer for Forgetting, out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. anti-mnemonicsUmberto Eco writes that “once, as a joke, some friends and I invented advertisements for university po­sitions…

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From Be Recorder, which will be published in August by Graywolf Press. I wept with my grandmother when Reaganwas shot because that’s what she wanted.At night, she’d tell me about…

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Hat in the Ring, a mixed-media artwork made of found tin collaged on wood, by Tony Berlant, whose work is on view this month at Brian Gross Fine Art, in…

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“O emetse mohala,” a photograph by Lebohang Kganye, whose work was on view in February at Rose Gallery, in Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Afronova Gallery, Johannesburg…

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From The Other Half, a manuscript in progress rebutting the author’s 1996 memoir, Half a Life, which describes her relationship with her husband, whom she met when she was a…

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From descriptions of products and services provided by businesses that have launched using the Uber model. A list of the on-demand companies was published by The Atlantic in March. Local…

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From a radio interview, by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, of the Israeli-British psychic Uri Geller, who published an open letter informing the British prime minister, Theresa May, that he would…

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All the While I Thought You Had Received This, a painting by Maia Cruz Palileo, whose work was on view in March at Monique Meloche Gallery, in Chicago. Courtesy the…

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From his novel Remorse Test, which was published in 2017 in Lebanon and won the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature. A translated excerpt was published in April in…

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From titles of books and periodicals that are banned, or of which issues are banned, in Louisiana state prisons. Pinterest for BusinessSmart Moves Beyond Mutual FundsO, The Oprah MagazineThe Prada…

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“Frieze,” a photograph by James Nizam, whose work was on view last month at Gallery Jones, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Jones, Vancouver, British Columbia…

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+”pentium II” +”400mhz” racconti erotici_SATAI, a painting by Petra Cortright, whose work was on view in December at Société, in Berlin. Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin…

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From Necropolis, which will be published this month by Columbia University Press. In the book, Khodasevich (1886–1939), a Russian poet, profiles Symbolists who lived in Russia in the early twentieth…

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From behaviors for which local, state, and federal politicians in the United States have, in the past year, publicly apologized. Posing with a Confederate flagDressing up as a Confederate soldierClaiming…

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From Optic Nerve, a novel that was published last month by Catapult. Gainza has worked as a correspondent for the New York Times in Argentina. Translated from the Spanish by…

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From a lecture on education delivered to a group of Castleton University students and faculty by Adam Taylor, the superintendent of Rutland City Public Schools in Vermont. The talk was…

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From “The ‘Noble Indian’: A Godsend for the Extreme Right,” published in Le Monde last July. Translated from the French by John Cullen. Sitting Bull was a Sioux chief who…

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“Emily in the Greenhouse,” a photograph by Cig Harvey, whose work was on view last month at The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD, in New York City. Courtesy the artist…

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The Empire, a painting by Enrique Martínez Celaya, from Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, published last month by D.A.P. © The artist…

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From descriptions of actions perpetrated by professors Todd Heatherton, William Kelley, and Paul Whalen in Dartmouth’s department of psychology and brain sciences, as alleged in a lawsuit filed against the…

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For Nicole Eisenman, from A Sand Book, which will be published next month by Tin House. I was on my kneesHacking my brainsAlone in a bone Of unratified lightSomeone downstairsWas…

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Brainheart, a painting by Elliott Green, whose work was on view in February at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, in New Orleans. Courtesy the artist and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans…

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