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…
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…
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…
“View Park, Number I,” a photograph by Janna Ireland, whose work is on view this month at Antenna, in New Orleans. Courtesy the artist…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
“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
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…
Bird of Paradise, mixed media on canvas by Mark Bradford, whose work was on view last spring at Hauser & Wirth, in Los Angeles. © The artist. Courtesy the artist…
From headlines that have appeared in the New York Times since 2016. Compiled by Henry Freedland. Yes, the Truth Still MattersYes, the News Can Survive the NewspaperYes, There Have Been…
“Entanglement,” a photograph by Linda DeStefano Brown, whose work was on view in August in the exhibition Recreating Nature, at Fountain Street Gallery, in Boston. Courtesy the artist and Fountain…
Interfering Patterns and Interfering Patterns and Ghosts, paintings by Eske Kath, whose work was on view in December at Galerie Mikael Andersen, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Courtesy the artist and Galerie…
Deep Deep Down, a painting by Amy Casey, whose work was on view in January at Foley Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Foley Gallery, New York…
From The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, published this month by Riverhead Books. Treuer is Ojibwe and from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. In 1863, Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk)…