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From an unpublished draft of his memoir.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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From Wave House, which was published in June by Flood Editions. my mother, a near-invalid since she broke her leg, told me she heard singing from her bed upstairs. She’d…

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From The Wolves of Eternity, which was published this month by Harvill Secker. That night I dreamt about Dad. I didn’t very often, and when I woke up from the…

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From an interview with the British artist Tracey Emin, conducted by Laura Allsop, which was published in June by AnOther Magazine. laura allsop: Some of the figures in your works…

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From Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia, which was published this month by Semiotext(e). Translated from the French. Sleep, sleep, how? The passageway is shut. The door has disappeared. The wall…

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From A Year and a Day, which will be published next month by New York Review Books. Those who marry a widow may find themselves competing with a ghost. Years…

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From a ruling issued in June by the Court of King’s Bench in Saskatchewan, Canada, in a case brought by a grain buyer who claimed that a local farmer had…

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From “Abstraction and Nonsense,” which was published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Yale Review. A version of this essay was delivered as a lecture at Yale University’s Whitney…

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From “Memory Book,” which was published in the ninth issue of HEAT Series 3. The evening nurse calls to say he’s had a fall. That phrase. I was out with…

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From letters from readers published in The New York Times Magazine since 2021. Cool story. Great article! This is a stunningly well-written article. I’ve read and reread this article so…

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From “Omens,” which was published in the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Very early on in medical school, my classmates and I wrote answers to four questions…

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From The Plague, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. On the opening page of his famous 1981 meditation, After Virtue, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre asks…

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From a report published in May by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General that outlines major disciplinary infractions committed by law enforcement officers in 2022. Vaping in a…

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From the Spring 2023 issue of The Massachusetts Review. Translated from the Spanish by Jeffrey Diteman and Shanta Lee. The nanny Fidelia Córdoba kept her rhythm in her tetas. She’d…

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From diary entries published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Dublin Review. january 1, 2022 Once again—the second year, the third, the fourth?—the Christmas cards never got sent. I…

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From Stay Safe, a Winnie-the-Pooh-themed book that was distributed to Dallas public school students in May. If there is danger, the police will come fast to catch the stranger. Until…

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From The Speak Angel Series, which was published in February by Fonograf Editions. May all governments cease and no more men decide for me or Steal from me I’ll happily…

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From items reported lost to Uber in the past year. A poodle Two turtles An unspecified number of hamsters A slab of bluefin tuna Chicken wings and some lotion Tacos…

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From the Summer 2023 issue of The Stinging Fly. She can’t sleep. The interesting thing about wind is how human it sounds, as a voice, unappeasable. She pulls her knees…

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