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…

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From explanations given by the Chinese government for why certain artists and celebrities are banned from entering or performing in the country. Behaving badly in social lifeAssociating with countercultureUsing profanity…

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“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…

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From No Matter, which will be published in July by Tim Duggan Books. Because of what I seemed reduced toand I’d expected moreI wore this blankeffectto the receptionnot discouraged, willingand…

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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…

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From a manuscript in progress. Carson’s collection of performance pieces Float was published by Knopf in 2016. The aunts sit along the wall in their narrow stone chairs that smell…

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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…

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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)…

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From reported behaviors of Republican legislators who were elected or reelected in November. Posted erotic drawings of bigfootVoted to make it legal to kill hibernating wolves and bearsBragged about shooting…

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Group X, No. 2, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 2, Altarbild) and Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 1, Altarbild), 1915, oil and metalleaf paintings on canvas by Hilma…

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Pillars, a painting by Andy Piedilato, whose work was on view last May at Art New York, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Danese/Corey, New York City

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From behaviors of Little Rock, Arkansas, police, cited by the department since 2007. The internal reports were made public in October, following an investigation of the killing of Bobby Moore,…

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From a manuscript in progress. Smith’s chapbook, Zodiac B, was published by Ninepin Press in 2016. It is delightful to sit by the edge of the lake under the yellow…

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Untitled, a painting by Stephanie Pierce, whose work was on view last February at Steve Harvey Fine Art Projects, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Steve Harvey Fine…

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From a manuscript in progress. Every morning we wept an hour then went to see a toolwhining up from under the floorboards through himbarefoot in the doorway betrayed and unconsolableunable…

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From a list of accounts purged by Facebook for spam and “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” released by the company in October. Wake The Fuck UpNation in DistressViral Alternative NewsRight-Wing NewsAnti-MediaExposing the…

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Top to bottom: “Flowers for Lisa #39: After Georges Braque,” “Flowers for Lisa #62: After Louise Bourgeois,” “Flowers for Lisa #51,” and “Flowers for Lisa #55,” photographs by Abelardo Morell,…

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From Casting Deep Shade, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press next month. Wright (1949–2016) was a poet from the Arkansas Ozarks whose 2010 work, One With Others, was…

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From “Majed,” which appears in Elsewhere, Home, a collection that will be published next month by Black Cat. Aboulela is a novelist and playwright and was the first recipient of…

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From “I’ll Swallow Your Dreams,” which appears in Good Will Come From the Sea, a collection that will be published in February by Archipelago. Ikonomou’s other collections include The Woman…

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From Black Is the Body, which will be published in February by Knopf. Bernard is a professor of English and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of Vermont,…

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From complaint letters addressed to the New York Philharmonic and subsequent responses, stored in the orchestra’s archive. The letters are dated from 1952–1953. Dimitri Mitropoulos was the music director of…

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From To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight, which was published in September by Wave Books. Hayes’s…

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From descriptions of writers included in FBI surveillance reports. The files were published this year by MIT Press. The collection, Writers Under Surveillance, was edited by JPat Brown, B.C.D. Lipton,…

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From explanations given by priests as to why sexual abuse was acceptable, as described in Pennsylvania’s “Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report.” The report, which was released in August, examines…

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From a manuscript in progress that will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2020. Those years when I was alive, I lived the era of the fast car. There…

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“Mistral-sculpted Snow, Mont Ventoux,” a photograph by Rachel Cobb, whose monograph Mistral: The Legendary Wind of Provence was published last month by Damiani. Cobb’s work is on view this month…

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Reitscape, a mixed-media artwork by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, whose work is on view this month at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. © The artist. Courtesy James Cohan…

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