From “The Blushing Brain,” a study conducted at the University of Amsterdam that was published in July in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Sixty-three female adolescents aged 16–20 from…

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From Liontaming in America, which was published last month by New Directions. I was reaching for a passage to the world they came from, the bodies slowly turning into the…

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From Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis, which will be published this month by Dey Street. At the end of Jordan Long’s sophomore year at Morehouse—a… 

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From L’instant précis où Monet entre dans l’atelier, which was published in 2022 by Éditions de Minuit. Translated from the French in May by Pauline Cochran. I was so taken…

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From Planes Flying Over a Monster, which was published last month by Catapult. Translated by Christina MacSweeney. The Grande Bibliothèque is an enormous glass edifice that stands opposite the Berri–UQAM… 

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From the introduction to a new edition of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was published last month by Picador. More than half a century after Tom Wolfe’s…

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From an interview with David Shiffman, a marine conservation biologist at Arizona State University, conducted in February by Lisa Margonelli for The Ongoing Transformation, a podcast. david shiffman: When most…

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From Scaffolding, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. One day, with nothing else to do, I go back to my old journals, rows and rows…

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From a motion filed in March in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. According to the 2020 census, 64.3 percent of the voting-age population in Newbern is…

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From […], which was published in March by Milkweed Editions. Aggressors also grieve. What hell a lucky life can be. I tried but couldn’t catch fish in a mirage, headed…

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From an interview with the Sudanese human-rights lawyer Jamal Abdallah Khamis, recorded last October by Human Rights Watch. On June 14, 2023, paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Arab militias overwhelmed… 

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From headlines that have appeared in the British magazine The Spectator since January. Confessions of a Fortysomething Brace Face I’m Proud I Squandered My Wealth My Life of Genteel Poverty…

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From Carbonate of Copper, which will be published next year by Fordham University Press. Mirror symmetry in the wilderness. The marauders with their sirens and sticks. An astrolabe for the…

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From “To Know and to Know Not,” a lecture delivered in May at the annual Premio Gregor von Rezzori ceremony in Florence, Italy. If you are from somewhere else, living…

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From a post on Notebook, MUBI’s online film publication. “My fiancé is waiting for me in Las Vegas,” she says. She keeps on talking about her fiancé and apologizing for…

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From Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture, which was published last month by ZE Books. The museums of New York in the Seventies and Eighties were as much the…

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From Bjarki, Not Bjarki, which was published in January by the University of Iowa Press. What is wood? Consider the teenager’s nomenclature for an erect pecker. A peckerwood is a…

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From Le Dépays, which was published in May by Film Desk Books. You’re returning from Hong Kong, oyster of the hundred thousand pearls, and from the very first train (the…

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From Two-Step Devil, which will be published next month by Grove Press. The Prophet stood on his porch, taking in the landscape. The soft earth was shooting up green everywhere… 

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From advice published on the website of the Enhanced Games, a sporting competition set to take place next year. Participating athletes will be permitted to use performance-enhancing drugs. The event’s…

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From the website of the Japanese retailer Muji. Muji was founded in 1980 in a thorough rationalization of the manufacturing process. The ensuing products are remarkably pure and fresh: succinct.… 

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From Go Figure, which will be published this month by Wesleyan University Press. “were molecular machines operating on energy freely available from such sources as thermodynamic processes.” It sounds so…

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From an introduction to the audiobook edition of J. F. Martel’s Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, which was released in May by Hachette Audio. Toward the end of…

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From comments published online and in media outlets upon the release of a TV commercial for the Italian company Amica Chips. The commercial depicts nuns eating potato chips in a…

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From an essay that was scheduled to appear in the Spring 2024 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Islands. The issue has been on hold since the magazine went on hiatus late…

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From letters by visitors who had taken objects from national parks in Hawaii, collected in the art book Ah Ah, by Ryan Thompson, which was published last month by The…

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From Concerning the Future of Souls, which will be published this month by Tin House. He hadn’t felt well when he woke up that morning but this was the case…

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From a March 1940 letter to her brother, André, collected in A Life in Letters, which will be published next month by Harvard University Press. Translated from the French by…

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