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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From Chariot, published in May by Wave Books. I have aspired to the ease of the drink-steadied harper who lives the tune so thoroughly his fast pink hands dance over…

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From Notes from the Passenger, which was published in May by Nightboat Books. If all experience is mystical the white spruce swayed in the window branch by branch almost to…

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From Tabula Rasa, Volume 1, a collection of his unrealized reporting projects, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A sprawling ranch on several acres has a…

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From discontinued products included in the Museum of Failure’s collection, which was on display last month in New York City. A television remote with eighty-eight buttons A flip phone that…

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From headlines published by the Guardian since 2009. Pablo Escobar’s hippos can restore a lost world Pablo Escobar’s hippos are people too Pablo Escobar’s hippos to cost Colombia $3.5 million Pablo…

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From articles by Anne Applebaum published in The Atlantic since 2021. Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, which is…

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From the introduction to The Family Diary, a 2024 planner edited by Julian Rothenstein, which was published last month by Redstone Press. If, when a child is growing up, it…

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From “Dear Employee,” which was published in Issue 80 of Conjunctions. The announcement came in the mail: effective immediately, everyone was assigned a new job. Pay was $0 a week.…

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From “The Maverick Pig,” included in the collection Pleasure of Thinking, which was published this month by Astra House. Translated from the Chinese. At the commune, I fed pigs and…

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From The Entanglement, which was published last month by Princeton University Press. When she dances, a young child already moves her body with a sensitivity to what is expected of…

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From Animal Spirits, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Soon after he graduated in 1909, Aldo Leopold headed to the Southwest to take a job…

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From August Blue, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Vass decided to sail after all. He said the wind would calm down. The boat was…

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