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By Alexander Kluge, from a manuscript in progress. Kluge is a filmmaker and a writer. A collection of short stories, Drilling Through Hard Boards, will be published next month by…

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From reports of dreams and fantasies that Lucy Corin collected from friends and acquaintances after the 2016 presidential election. Corin is the author, most recently, of One Hundred Apocalypses and…

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By Cyrus Console, from Romanian Notebook, a memoir that will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Console is the author of two volumes of poetry. His poem…

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From exercises presented by the Moral Machine, a website developed by MIT. The exercises ask users to decide which outcome a self-driving car should choose in the event of sudden…

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Methods women have used to induce abortion at times throughout history when clinical procedures were illegal or unavailable.

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From a conversation between Eileen Myles and Jill Soloway that was held in October at the Hammer Museum, in Los Angeles. Myles is the author of nineteen works of poetry,…

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From accounts of incidents in which women allege that they were sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump. The accusations were told to journalists and lawyers over the past four…

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From the website of Finland’s World Wife-Carrying Championships. The competition has been held annually since 1995.

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From a list of clichés that authors have used in more than half their works. The list was compiled by Ben Blatt and appears in Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve,…

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From The Daily Show (The Book), which was published in November by Grand Central Publishing. Elliott Kalan was a writer on the show, and Rob Corddry, Ed Helms, and Stephen…

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By Nathaniel Mackey, from Late Arcade, which was published this month by New Directions. The book is the fifth installment in From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate,…

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By Tongo Eisen-Martin, from Heaven Is All Goodbyes, which will be published this fall by City Lights Publisher. Eisen-Martin is the author of Someone’s Dead Already (2015).

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By Daphne Merkin, from This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression, a memoir that will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Merkin is the author of…

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By Karen Solie, from a manuscript in progress. Solie is the author of several collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out (2015).

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From a list of phrases used in various languages to describe a sun-shower, the phenomenon of the sun shining while it rains. The phrases were compiled by Bert Vaux, a…

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From a complaint filed in an Illinois circuit court last year by Robert Rialmo, a Chicago police officer, against the family of Quintonio LeGrier, a nineteen-year-old black man who was…

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From affidavits written by people across the United States that were included in a lawsuit brought against the Department of Homeland Security by the Immigration Reform Law Institute. The lawsuit,…

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By Dubravka Ugrešic, from an essay that was published in the September/October issue of World Literature Today. Ugrešic is the author of more than a dozen books. She was the…

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From an interview with the philosopher George Steiner that was conducted in 2014 by Laure Adler, a journalist. The interview appears in A Long Saturday, which will be published in…

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