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From advice published on the website of the Enhanced Games, a sporting competition set to take place next year. Participating athletes will be permitted to use performance-enhancing drugs. The event’s…

Computer Bits

From AI-generated explanations of New Yorker cartoons created for a study published in July 2023 in Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The scene…

An Idiom Abroad

by Adam Sharp,

From a series of lists compiled in Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats, which was published in November by Andrews McMeel Publishing. raining cats and dogs Raining old ladies and…

Flight Log

From the cockpit transcript of a Navy training flight near Seattle, in 2017. The exchange was released in May, following an investigation. Excerpts from the transcript were first published by…

Embarrassment of ‘Wiches

From a correction that was published by the Louisville Courier-Journal in July.

Near-Death and Taxes

From reasons submitted to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the United Kingdom’s tax-collection agency, for missing or tardy returns.

Theme & Violations

by Éric Chevillard,

By Éric Chevillard, from Music & Literature No. 8. Chevillard is the author of numerous novels, including Prehistoric Times, which appeared in English in 2012. Translated from the French by…

Ex Post

by Annie Dillard,

The life of a woman of letters

Mad Maxims

by Gordon Pennycook,

From a list of aphorisms generated by randomly recombining the tweets of Deepak Chopra, and used in a study on “the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” by Gordon Pennycook,…

A Goose in a Dress

by Tanya Gold,

In which our intrepid restaurant critic submits to the dreams and excesses of New York’s most fashionable eateries

Notion Picture Industry

by Patton Oswalt,

By Patton Oswalt, from Silver Screen Fiend, to be published next month by Scribner. In memory of Sherman Torgan, an L.A. theater owner, Oswalt imagined “a month’s worth of titles…

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