By Ted Kooser, from the latest issue of New Letters. Kooser is a former U.S. poet laureate and the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

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From a conversation between Robert Caro and John R. MacArthur, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The Power Broker, Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, which won the Pulitzer…

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By Jean Echenoz, from The Queen’s Caprice, a story collection forthcoming from the New Press. Echenoz is the author of several books, including, most recently, 1914. Translated from the French…

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By Meline Toumani, adapted from her first book, There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond, out this month from Metropolitan…

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By Wis?awa Szymborska, from Map: Collected and Last Poems, due out next year from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Szymborska (1923–2012), a Polish poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in…

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From a list of items available for purchase by local police departments through Department of Homeland Security grants.

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By Claudia Rankine, from Citizen: An American Lyric, published last month by Graywolf Press. Rankine is the author of several books of poems, including Plot, The End of the Alphabet,…

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From hypothetical situations imagined by U.S. Supreme Court justices during oral arguments presented in the 2013 term. Compiled by Viviane Fairbank.

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From La Colère du Tigre, a play by Philippe Madral about the friendship between Georges Clemenceau and Claude Monet, which premiered at the Théâtre Montparnasse in Paris in September. After…

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From Ways of Curating, by Hans Ulrich Obrist, out this month from Faber and Faber. Obrist is the codirector of exhibitions and programs and of international projects at the Serpentine…

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From a list of 1,266 musical genres compiled by Glenn McDonald, creator of everynoise.com, which seeks to produce a comprehensive music-classification system.

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By Rachel Kushner, from The Strange Case of Rachel K, out in February 2015 from New Directions. Kushner is the author of the novels Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers.

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From message-board comments posted on the website of Seattle’s Mars Hill megachurch under the name William Wallace II, recently revealed to be the church’s pastor and cofounder Mark Driscoll. Driscoll…

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From the Indiegogo funding-campaign profile for AR Wear, described as “wearable protection for when things go wrong.” The company surpassed its $50,000 funding goal last year and is currently at…

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From The Twilight of Human Rights Law, by Eric A. Posner, out next month from Oxford University Press. Posner is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Amarildo…

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From a 2014 internal report by the Internet Research Agency, a company based in St. Petersburg, Russia, that generates anti-American propaganda. The agency hired dozens of people to leave comments…

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From The Missing Pieces, a book describing works of art that were lost, forgotten, destroyed, left unfinished, or never made, by Henri Lefebvre, published this month by Semiotext(e). Lefebvre founded…

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By Raphael Rubinstein, from Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, published in August by Black Ocean. Rubinstein is the author of several books, most recently The Miraculous (Paper Monument).

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By Dylan Landis, the author of several books, including Rainey Royal, her first novel, published last month by Soho Press.

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