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Everyone is familiar with the sorts of jobs whose purpose is difficult to discern: HR consultants, PR researchers, communications coordinators, financial strategists, logistics managers. The list is endless.  This is…

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From a database listing the names of LGBTQ employee resource groups at more than 800 companies. The database is maintained by the Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights advocacy organization.…

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From testimony given in March by David Helsel, the superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District, in Pennsylvania, at a meeting of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives education committee. Hal…

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By Dilara O’Neil, from The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg, which was published last year. In Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile photo uploaded during the summer of 2013, he…

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From titles of horror films released since 2002 whose plotlines involve social media. #Horror Smiley Catfish Cry_Wolf FeardotCom Death Tube iMurders Selfie From Hell Uwantme2killhim? Antisocial Unfriended Disconnect…

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From game play of The Game: The Game, a dating-simulation video game developed by Angela Washko, an assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University. Washko modeled the characters and…

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By Zora Neale Hurston, from Barracoon, a previously unpublished ethnography based on interviews that she conducted with eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis in Alabama in 1927 and 1928. Lewis was then the…

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From criteria used to catalogue photographs taken by “Caesar,” an anonymous photographer for the Syrian military. Between 2011 and 2013, Caesar photographed 28,707 men tortured and killed by the regime…

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By Keston Sutherland, from Whither Russia, which was published last year by Barque Press.  I look down on you, stars of my depression, Since your shining is so domineering, Lighting…

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On October 12, 2016, a front-page story in the Sun, a conservative UK newspaper, reported that nine hundred women who were not British citizens had given birth at a single National Health…

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From notes on the reported actions of an adult male student at Vancouver Island University who is diagnosed with paraphilic infantilism. The notes were compiled by Katrin Roth von Szepesbéla,…

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By Éric Chevillard, from QWERTY Invectives. The book appeared last month as part of the Cahiers Series, which is published by Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers and Translators…

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By Rachel Cusk, from Kudos, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Cusk is the author of nine previous novels. We entered the restaurant and sat…

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From a table detailing the reported shapes of UFOs in sightings in the United States since 2001. The table is included in the UFO Sightings Desk Reference, which was self-published…

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By Rodney Koeneke, from Body & Glass, which was published last month by Wave Books. Liver, recover.  Years pass and are salutary. A thin scum coats the ornamental pond quickening…

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By Abby Norman, from Ask Me About My Uterus, which was published last month by Nation Books. Norman is an editor at Futurism, a science and technology website.

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From descriptions of professional tasks performed by Sandeep Rehal for Harvey Weinstein while she was employed as his personal assistant. She held the position from 2013 to 2015. In January,…

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