From an interview with the poet Alice Notley conducted by Janique Vigier that was scheduled to appear on the Artforum website in December. Vigier pulled the piece from publication in…

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From Telegram messages sent in January by Muhammad Sultan, who lives in Gaza, to his sister Enas Sultan, who lives in Norway. Translated from the Arabic by Dalia Taha. Enas,…

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From an essay that appeared in Spike Art Magazine in December. The thing I will say about being young is I hated it. I wasn’t anybody, I was broke, my…

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From a complaint filed in November in the Circuit Court of Cook County, in Illinois, against Volkswagen Group of America et al. On February 23, 2023, at or around approximately…

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From Bitter Water Opera, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. I walked down a thin path, spotting in the distance a tall stone wall, as instructed. My…

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From statements made by Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, since 2017. Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it. Never stand between a…

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From Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, which will be published next month by Graywolf Press.   Some people say Tsukimi Ayano makes her life-sized dolls out of…

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From a previously unpublished letter in The Letters of Emily Dickinson, which is out next month from Harvard University Press. to unknown, late january 1878 Dear friend. We recollect you,…

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From AI-generated explanations of New Yorker cartoons created for a study published in July 2023 in Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The scene…

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From All Things Are Too Small, which will be published next month by Metropolitan Books. “All things / are too small,” begins a poem believed to be written by the thirteenth-century Dutch…

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From a letter written by C. Andrew Doyle, the ninth Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Texas, to Will Shortz and Robyn Weintraub, constructors of New York Times crossword puzzles.…

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From letters written from and to Terry Lynn King, who has been an inmate on Tennessee’s death row since 1985. The correspondence was included in Death Row Welcomes You, by…

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From My Cinema, which was published by Another Gaze Editions in January. Translated from the French by Daniella Shreir. No longer any use in the make-believe of socialist hope. In…

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From The Riddles of the Sphinx, which was published this month by HarperOne. I was sixteen years old when a family friend gave me a copy of Dora, the case…

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From the inaugural issue of The Insiders Zine, which was published in 2022 and posted to the Internet Archive in December 2023. There seems to be an ongoing debate as…

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From Trondheim, which was published last month by Bellevue Literary Press. On the day their son was going to die, Lil had given herself the task of carrying forty-plus sacks…

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From a September 2023 entry in Air Mail. My dad, Tom Wolfe, delighted in defending his style of writing and had no qualms about throwing barbs at other writers. In…

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From Sleep, which was republished by New York Review Books in November 2023. a soft sonnet is all the strength i have to create, full easy life have i ever…

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From I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, which was published this month by Penguin Press. For months I was preoccupied with the matter of my name.…

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From a list of reasons books should be removed from public schools, as updated in December by Bruce Friedman, who leads the Florida chapter of No Left Turn in Education.…

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From an interview of Tim Meyers, a retired cinema worker, conducted by Sebastian Becerra for the first issue of the zine Cashiers du Cinéma in August 2023. sebastian becerra: When…

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From an interview included in RoboDoc, a documentary series released in August about the making of the 1987 film RoboCop, which starred Peter Weller as a cybernetically enhanced police officer.…

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From entries in The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, which will be published in April by New York Review Books. Another good day to think and be thankful for. There is…

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From Georgia’s August 2023 indictment of members of the grassroots movement Defend the Atlanta Forest, in which prosecutors charged more than sixty individuals under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations…

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From an account by Dr. Hammam Alloh that was told to Maya Rosen and published by Jewish Currents on October 30, 2023. Alloh was killed by an Israeli airstrike in…

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From leaflets distributed in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces between October 13 and November 16, 2023. As of this writing, the United Nations estimates that more than 60 percent…

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From a fictional dialogue with his father in his novel Change, which will be published this month by Harvill Secker. Translated from the French by John Lambert. Before meeting Elena…

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From the original description of Need for Spirit Drink & Drive Simulator published in Nintendo’s online store in October. overview: Get ready to embark on a wild journey as a…

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