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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From a list of gifts given to President Trump by foreign officials in 2017, which was published by the State Department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol in March. The…

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From a manuscript in progress. The street knows it’s changed its direction.once it was here now it’s the way tosomeplace else benches had waiting

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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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