From transcripts of calls made to the Welsh Ambulance Service in 2023.   operator: Tell me exactly what’s happened. caller: Yesterday evening, we had some kebab, and I might have…

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From Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014–2020, which was published in November by Seagull Books. Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger. I was born into the Christian households…

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From The Core of an Onion, which was published in November by Bloomsbury. James Beard once wrote, “I can easily make a whole meal of onion sandwiches, for to me…

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From an affidavit filed in 2022 by an FBI agent in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. In November 2023, “J.B.,” the defendant, was sentenced to eighteen…

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From God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, edited by Hilton Als, which was published in March by Dancing Foxes Press and the Brooklyn Museum. I met…

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From This Strange Eventful History, which will be published this month by W. W. Norton. He could hear his wife, Barbara, now in the other room, getting ready for his father’s funeral.…

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From a civil complaint filed in February against Albuquerque Public Schools, in New Mexico. On the morning of May 2, 2022, a teacher brought two swords with her into her…

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From Big Stupid Face, a manuscript in progress. Its usual way moves in with a privacy that rips out plantings ragged and diseased a leap exhilarating away in unheard-of petals.…

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From Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, a book co-written with Stephen Greenblatt, which will be published next month by Yale University Press. The idea of the second chance is one…

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From a video statement posted in January by Eli Regalado, the pastor of an online-only Christian church based in Denver. Regalado and his wife, Kaitlyn Regalado, were charged with fraud…

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From an interview with the poet Alice Notley conducted by Janique Vigier that was scheduled to appear on the Artforum website in December. Vigier pulled the piece from publication in…

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From Telegram messages sent in January by Muhammad Sultan, who lives in Gaza, to his sister Enas Sultan, who lives in Norway. Translated from the Arabic by Dalia Taha. Enas,…

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From an essay that appeared in Spike Art Magazine in December. The thing I will say about being young is I hated it. I wasn’t anybody, I was broke, my…

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From a complaint filed in November in the Circuit Court of Cook County, in Illinois, against Volkswagen Group of America et al. On February 23, 2023, at or around approximately…

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From Bitter Water Opera, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. I walked down a thin path, spotting in the distance a tall stone wall, as instructed. My…

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From statements made by Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, since 2017. Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it. Never stand between a…

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From Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, which will be published next month by Graywolf Press.   Some people say Tsukimi Ayano makes her life-sized dolls out of…

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From a previously unpublished letter in The Letters of Emily Dickinson, which is out next month from Harvard University Press. to unknown, late january 1878 Dear friend. We recollect you,…

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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…

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From All Things Are Too Small, which will be published next month by Metropolitan Books. “All things / are too small,” begins a poem believed to be written by the thirteenth-century Dutch…

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From a letter written by C. Andrew Doyle, the ninth Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Texas, to Will Shortz and Robyn Weintraub, constructors of New York Times crossword puzzles.…

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From letters written from and to Terry Lynn King, who has been an inmate on Tennessee’s death row since 1985. The correspondence was included in Death Row Welcomes You, by…

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From My Cinema, which was published by Another Gaze Editions in January. Translated from the French by Daniella Shreir. No longer any use in the make-believe of socialist hope. In…

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From The Riddles of the Sphinx, which was published this month by HarperOne. I was sixteen years old when a family friend gave me a copy of Dora, the case…

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From the inaugural issue of The Insiders Zine, which was published in 2022 and posted to the Internet Archive in December 2023. There seems to be an ongoing debate as…

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From Trondheim, which was published last month by Bellevue Literary Press. On the day their son was going to die, Lil had given herself the task of carrying forty-plus sacks…

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From a September 2023 entry in Air Mail. My dad, Tom Wolfe, delighted in defending his style of writing and had no qualms about throwing barbs at other writers. In…

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From Sleep, which was republished by New York Review Books in November 2023. a soft sonnet is all the strength i have to create, full easy life have i ever…

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