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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From genres featured in the Paléo Festival, an annual music festival in Switzerland, since 2017. Silky pop Crazy pop Kaleidoscopic literary pop Luminous hopscotch pop Astonishing synthetic pop Planetary pop…

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From a meeting in July at Texas A&M University. In May, Kathleen McElroy had accepted a tenured position as the head of the university’s journalism program. The Texas Tribune reported…

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From Grand Tour, which was published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I offer a friend’s young daughter a leaf of mint just picked, inviting her to smell, when…

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From petitions to the U.K. parliament since 2020 that have received more than ten thousand signatures, which means the government must formally respond. Make dog theft a criminal offense Make…

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From Brooklyn Crime Novel, which will be published this month by Ecco. Say a guy, a former Dean Street boy, now resident of an apartment above a bar on Columbia…

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From the final issue of Freeman’s, which was published this month by Grove Press.  My father worked as an inventory manager at a company that imported erasers and small toy…

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From “Real Estate,” which was published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Dublin Review. the village When I was around twelve, we moved to an estate in Newbridge, which…

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From “An Account of the Otter,” which was published in the Summer 2023 issue of BOMB Magazine. Whereas some people have a passion for sex, my mentor has a passion…

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From affidavits filed by residents of Falmouth, Massachusetts, regarding a new pickleball court.  We are of sound mind.  Pre-pickleball, we enjoyed the outside of our home tremendously.  We could be…

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From an unpublished draft of his memoir. A longtime television critic for Newsday, he died in June at age ninety-three.  During the Great Depression, my father always had a job.…

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From a correction issued by the Hamilton County, Indiana, chapter of Moms for Liberty. THE PARENT BRIGADE PARENT ADVOCACY through UNIFYING, EDUCATING, and EMPOWERING For parental rights at all levels…

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From a training manual for employees of the real estate investment company HomeVestors of America, which flips houses. Find the Pain. Pain is always a form of motivation. People in…

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