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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From a letter written by Marina Tsvetaeva to Boris Pasternak in 1927. Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) was a poet. The letter was included in the February issue of the PN Review. Translated…

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From the style guide of the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist news website. The guide, which was reportedly written by Andrew Anglin, the site’s founder and editor, was acquired in…

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By Andrea Brady, from a work in progress. Brady’s most recent book is The Strong Room (Crater Press).

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By Patrick Chamoiseau, from Slave Old Man, which will be published next month by the New Press. The book was originally published by Gallimard in 1997. Chamoiseau, who is from…

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From complaints filed since 2015 by inmates at the Morgan County jail, in Alabama. The complaints were included in a lawsuit filed last year against Ana Franklin, the county sheriff,…

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From a list of Wikipedia editors that the site has flagged because of long-term abuse.

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By Barbara Ehrenreich, from Natural Causes, which will be published next month by Twelve. Ehrenreich is the author of more than a dozen books, including Nickel and Dimed (Henry Holt).…

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From descriptions of products sold by InfoWars, a far-right radio show hosted by Alex Jones, and by Goop, a website created by Gwyneth Paltrow.

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By Terry Southern (1924–95), from an unpublished manuscript written in 1952. It is included in Making It Hot for Them, a collection of his writings edited by Nile Southern that…

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From “Cultural Differences in Response to Pain,” a section included in the textbook Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning, published by Pearson. In October, the company announced that it would…

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By Lydia Davis, from a story collection in progress. Davis is editing a book of essays that will be published next year. She is a writer and translator.

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From editorial notes given to Milo Yiannopoulos, a leader of the “alt-right,” by Mitchell Ivers, a vice president at Simon & Schuster, on his manuscript for Dangerous. Last year, Simon…

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