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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Dinner with Dear Friend, a painting by Alex Kanevsky, whose work was on view last May at Guido Romero Pierini, in Paris. Courtesy the artist and Hollis Taggart, New York…

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Hands at Work III, a film quilt by Sabrina Gschwandtner, whose work was on view last March at The Armory Show, in New York City.

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From EEG, a novel that will be published next month by New Directions. Drndić (1946–2018) was an author and playwright. EEG is her final work. Translated from the Croatian by Celia…

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From an interview in the November 28, 2018, edition of Le Monde with Élisabeth Badinter, conducted by Jean Birnbaum. Badinter is a French public intellectual and historian whose three-part history…

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From the twentieth issue of the literary annual NOON, which will be published this month. His story “A Dreary One” appeared in NOON in 2018. Gregory Speen learns to not…

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Photographs of staked trees in Singapore by Woong Soak Teng, from her book Ways to Tie Trees, published last July by Steidl. Courtesy the artist and Steidl “Along Bishan Active…

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“Round and Round” and “Goofy Duck,” photographs by Joshua Dildine, whose work was on view last July at Mark Moore Fine Art, in Orange, California. Courtesy the artist and Mark…

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From a conversation with Jorge Luis Borges on the translations of his books and poetry, conducted in 1982 by the New Orleans Review and published this month by Bloomsbury in…

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From claims made to an audience of children by speakers at the 106th Indian Science Congress, held in Phagwara in January. The statements were subsequently condemned by thirty-seven of the…

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“L’Indifférence des Étoiles,” a photograph by Julien Mauve, whose work was on view in January at Galerie Intervalle, in Paris. Courtesy the artist and In the Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

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From Survival Math, which will be published in March by Scribner. Jackson is an associate professor of writing at New York University and the author of The Residue Years. He…

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From The White Book, published this month by Hogarth. Kang is a professor of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.…

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