Ethereal Desire, a mixed-media artwork by YoAhn Han, whose work was on view in August at Chase Young Gallery, in Boston. Courtesy the artist and Chase Young Gallery, Boston.

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From Professor at Large, which was published last month by Cornell University Press. It must have seemed some kind of risk to request a sermon from a man once so…

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From behaviors alleged at trial to have been committed by a unit of Baltimore police officers in the line of duty. The officers were convicted this year of robbery and…

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From A Rebel in Gaza, published last month by DoppelHouse Press. Translated from the French by Mike Mitchell. Among the memories I brought back home is a meeting with our…

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From songs selected by US interrogators to be played repeatedly at maximum volume for inmates at detention centers around the world, including at Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Mosul.…

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From Workers’ Tales, a collection of British socialist fairy tales from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, edited by Michael Rosen and published last month by Princeton University Press.…

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From Love in the New Millennium, a novel that was published this month by Yale University Press. Can Xue is the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua, who previously worked as a…

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From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. A race-baiting, xenophobic bigotThe Islamic State’s “man of the year”The death…

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Arch, a painting by Barbara Takenaga, whose work was on view in October at DC Moore Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York…

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A Strange Hour, a painting by Amy Bennett, whose work was on view in April at Richard Heller Gallery, in Santa Monica, California. Courtesy the artist and Richard Heller Gallery,…

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“Transformed Agricultural Machine, Kayak Road Sign Facing Highway 90, Hula Valley,” a photograph by Roei Greenberg, whose work was on view in August at Aperture Gallery, in New York City.…

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By Christopher Nealon, from “The Shore,” a manuscript in progress. For Saba Mahmood. Then I gave it upI gave up thinking that the song I heard was the song of…

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By Rae Armantrout, from End Quote, a poetry collection that will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2020.     1The way we gatherat the window, pointing with funereal…

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“Ça Va Aller #3,” an embroidered photograph by Joana Choumali, whose work was on view in May at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, in Brooklyn, New York. Courtesy the artist…

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“Dictyota dichotoma, in the young state; and in fruit,” a cyanotype by Anna Atkins, c. 1850, from her book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, Part XI. Atkins’s work is…

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From Issue 23 of The Fabulist, published by Aesop to coincide with the Serpentine Galleries’ 2018 Serpentine Pavilion, which is on view through October 7 in London. My first encounter…

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From The Book of Revelation, a history of Revelation that will be published this month by the Princeton University Press. St. Augustine was a bishop and Christian scholar of the fourth…

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From “Tina Reyes,” which appears in The Houseguest and Other Stories. The book will be published next month by New Directions. Dávila was born in Mexico in 1928 and is…

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From descriptions of findings at Abel Beth Maacah, a site in northern Israel, near the Lebanese border. The reports were published between 1986 and 2018 by the biblical archaeologists Nava…

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From statements included in How to Debate Your Teacher (and WIN!), a booklet first published in 2015 by the conservative policy group Turning Points USA. Capitalism is under attackTeachers and…

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From Human Hours, which was published last month by Graywolf Press. Floating above the gynecologist’s hands,Dolor looks down at mewith her many expressions. Someone sketched the eyes, the mouths,someone pinned…

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By Inger Christensen, from The Condition of Secrecy. Christensen (1935–2009) was a Danish poet and writer. The book, a collection of essays, will be published in November by New Directions.…

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From descriptions generated by two AIs of ten Rorschach inkblots. The AIs were part of an MIT project released in April, to examine the influence of biased data on machine…

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From complaints filed with the Department of Homeland Security between 2010 and 2017 by detainees in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [Redacted] alleged he is discriminated against…

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