From Remotely, which will be published this month by Yale University Press. We try to think of ourselves existing in history, like people waiting in line. More or less patient,…

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From comments about the fall 2023 bedbug outbreak in Paris, as recorded in news reports. Having bedbugs is no laughing matter. No one is safe. Bedbugs do not rest. They…

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From journal entries by Maram Humaid, an AlJazeera.com journalist in Gaza, written during the first week of the Israel–Hamas war. OCTOBER 9 I’m the mother of two children, one of…

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From resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly since 1982 for which the United States and Israel were the only two member states, of more than 150 nations, to…

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From audio captured by the body camera of Seattle police officer Daniel Auderer in January 2023. Auderer is recorded talking to Mike Solan, the president of the Seattle Police Officers…

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From Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes, which was republished this month by McNally Editions. “Heavens, Harriet,” Mrs. Klein said when Aunt Harry gave her the hot rum drink, “I need…

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From emails exchanged by Secret Service agents between March 2021 and November 2022 regarding president Joe Biden’s dogs, Major and Commander. We have noticed Major getting more aggressive Be careful…

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From tweets posted by the Iowa senator Chuck Grassley since February 2012. Just turned to History Channel. No history. I used to get history. Why do we have such a…

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From Ascent of the Mothers, which was published in November by Wave Books.   Lucent transitions, the heat And draft of four stories, how did I get here so quickly?…

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From “The Impulse Toward Autobiographical Fiction,” a 1963 lecture that is being published for the first time in the collection The Writer as Illusionist, edited and introduced by Alec Wilkinson,…

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From Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I’ve always loved snakes. Love includes fear—for everyone, I think,…

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From “Four Tales,” which was published in the Fall 2023 issue of The Massachusetts Review. Everyone knows that to be a self-respecting Eastern European émigré writer, you must learn to…

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From the transcript of an August 2023 ceremony marking the unveiling of a time capsule discovered under a nineteenth-century monument at the United States Military Academy at West Point. jennifer…

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From Up Late, which was published last month by W. W. Norton. I was working as a lawyer in Poland for a large firm trying to cash in on the deregulation…

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From a letter sent in January by a young girl living in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Dear Cumberland Police Department, I took a sample of a cookie and carrots that I…

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From blog posts by Sam Altman since 2013. Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. My best advice for communicating clearly is to first make sure your…

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From The Archive of Feelings, which was published this month by Other Press. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. It’s a source of joy every time, to find the…

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From reviews of the children’s animated television series Bluey published in media outlets since 2021. Beloved kids’ program Cute and highly relatable A real gem A damn good show Instantly…

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From notes made on custom license plate applications flagged for review by the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles since 2012. superju: (My nickname is Juju.) Superiority of religion, “super jew.”…

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From Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa, which will be published next month by Harvard University Press. In the sixteenth century, opinions of the famed Doctor Faustus…

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From The Rebellious CEO, which was published this month by Melville House. Sol Price was the founder of Price Club, whose parent company merged with Costco in 1993. Sol Price…

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From The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild, which will be published this month by New Directions. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. Esther was weeping. She tried to…

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From Molly, which will be published next month by Archway Editions. Two days before her suicide, Molly and I went to visit the High Museum, where we’d been together many times.…

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From Earlier, which was published last month by Semiotext(e). After we lose 25 South Portland Avenue (owned) to bad financial management, we move into 232 Carlton (rented). The owner is a doctor…

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From I Love Russia, which was published last month by Penguin Press. Translated from the Russian. Kostyuchenko is a reporter for Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper. I am five,…

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From an exchange between the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a non-profit organization that promotes animal rights, and the Georgia-based Macon Bacon baseball team in June 2023. physicians committee for…

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From a press release by Comité Champagne, which represents the champagne industry. On April 17, 2023, Comité Champagne and the General Administration of Belgian Customs destroyed a shipment of 2,352…

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From Terminations, which was published last month by Flood Editions. Saying “world” backward sounds like gulping a marble. The moon helps the oceans haul their miles. * In laughed-at handwriting:…

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