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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Mental Object 7, a mixed-media artwork by Alice Quaresma, whose work was on view last September at Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and the Tappan…

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Clockwise from top left: Moss and Ferns, Grass and Moss, Holes, and Leaves and Vines, paintings by Claire Sherman, whose work was on view last month at DC Moore Gallery,…

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From Humanitarian Wars?, which will be published in April in the United Kingdom by Hurst. Brauman, a physician, was president of Doctors Without Borders from 1982 to 1994. This conversation,…

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The Time Vivarium-97, a work on paper by Sun Xun, whose work is on view this month at ShanghART Gallery, in Singapore. © The artist. Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York…

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From descriptions, published in a music review by Texas senator John Cornyn, of Neil Young’s 1972 album Harvest. The article was printed in February of that year in the Trinitonian,…

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Photographs of toys made by children in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda, by Nora Lorek. © Nora Lorek/Panos Pictures

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“DNA #7797L-#7801R, 2018,” a photograph by Michael Koerner, whose work was on view in March at the CEG Salon, in Chicago. Courtesy the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago…

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From the opening lines of chapters in A Short History of Europe, by Simon Jenkins, published in March by Public Affairs Books. It helps to be a god. As Zeus…

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From a manuscript in progress. Sharif’s previous collection of poetry, Look, was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press. I hadto. Ilearned it.It wasif. Ifwas nice.I saidsure. Onemore thing.One morething. Eatit…

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From accounts of nonsexual orgasms documented in “Orgasm Range and Variability in Humans: A Content Analysis.” The study was published in the International Journal of Sexual Health in November of…

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From The Besieged City, a novel that will be published this month by New Directions. Lispector’s novel The Chandelier was published last year by New Directions. Edited by Benjamin Moser…

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From reviews, published on TripAdvisor, of the Henn-na Hotel, a robot-run resort in Japan that laid off more than half its automated workforce in January. Henn-na bills itself as a…

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Spectrum of Life I, a painting by Tizta Berhanu, whose work was on view in March at Addis Fine Art, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Courtesy the artist and Addis Fine…

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“View Park, Number I,” a photograph by Janna Ireland, whose work is on view this month at Antenna, in New Orleans. Courtesy the artist…

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From a remembrance delivered last May at a memorial service for Philip Roth. Taylor is a professor of writing at the New School. His most recent book, The Hue and…

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From a resignation email sent to NBC News in January by William M. Arkin, a national security reporter who had worked at the network off and on since 1999. January 4…

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From an account published in HuffPost in December of the ten years the author spent working as a cable technician in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. otto’s mom I…

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In memory of Tom Clark (1941–2018), from a manuscript in progress. Sigo’s most recent collection of poetry, Royals, was published by Wave Books in 2017. In the day, blood, yet…

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