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By Masha Gessen, from Never Remember: Searching for Stalin’s Gulags in Putin’s Russia, which will be published next month by Columbia Global Reports. Gessen’s book The Future Is History won…

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By Witold Szablowski, from Dancing Bears, a book of reportage that will be published next month by Penguin Books. Szab?owski is a journalist. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

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From descriptions of audience applause recorded in official transcriptions of speeches by Nicolae Ceausescu. They were included in a blog post published last year by Yuan Ling, a journalist. The…

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From an affidavit filed in November to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Canada, by Lorne Grabher, a resident of the province. The case is ongoing.

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From a lawsuit filed in a Pennsylvania district court last August by Darlene Daggett against Kelleher International, an elite matchmaking company based in California. Daggett hired Kelleher for dating services…

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From a journal that Flannery O’Connor (1925–64) kept during her second year at Georgia State College for Women. The journal entries were published in Issue 94 of Image Journal. Regina…

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By Hye-young Pyun, from an unpublished collection. Pyun’s most recent novel is The Hole; another, Ashes and Red, will be published this year by Arcade. Translated from the Korean by…

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From descriptions of objects held by the Museum of Broken Relationships, which is located in Zagreb, Croatia, and exhibits mementos submitted anonymously by people around the world. A catalogue of…

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By Morgan Parker, from the poetry collection Magical Negro, which will be published by Tin House in 2019. Parker’s collection There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé was published last year by Tin…

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By Virginia Eubanks, from Automating Inequality, which was published this month by St. Martin’s Press. Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY, and…

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From a list of seventy-one types of US households, as classified by Experian Marketing Services, the world’s largest credit data company. Golf Carts and GourmetsColleges and CafésModest Metro MeansStatus-Seeking SinglesFootloose…

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From Women, Whistleblowing, WikiLeaks, which was published last month by OR Books. The conversation from which this is excerpted took place in 2016 and was moderated by Joseph Farrell, a…

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From testimony given by the singer Taylor Swift in a Colorado district court in August. Swift alleges that David Mueller, a host at KYGO radio in Denver, groped her when…

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From Ask Zelda, an advice column that ran in SIDtoday, an internal newsletter for National Security Agency employees. This column appeared in July 2014, a year after Edward Snowden leaked…

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From a memo sent in October by Unicode typographers to the organization’s technical committee, which oversees the creation and modification of emoji. The memo concerns emoji that are proposed for…

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By Navid Kermani, from Wonder Beyond Belief, a collection of his commentaries on Christian artwork that was published this month by Polity. This essay concerns the sculpture Christ Child (circa…

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By Clarice Lispector, from The Chandelier, a novel that will be published in March by New Directions. Lispector (1920–77) was the author of more than a dozen novels and story…

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By Alli Warren, from Little Hill, a chapbook that was published this month by the Elephants. Warren’s previous collection of poetry, I Love It Though, was published last year by…

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