And, you know, the nice thing about President Trump is he knows that.” Vought is now in charge of the budget machine, eager ...

From The Dream Hotel, which will be published this month by Pantheon. Morning light silvers the glass-brick windows of the Safe-X library. A sign taped to the wall above the return shelf says quiet.

From Pause the Document, which will be published this month by Nightboat Books.

Liberal internationalism died in the ruins of Gaza and Beirut. Donald Trump’s return to office has only put a tin plate on the coffin. The doctrine lost all legitimacy through its dependence on ...

From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we are still ...

From “Brains in Washington,” which appeared in the March 1936 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year ...

From comments made by Russian chess officials in July, following an incident at the Moscow Open in which a chess-playing robot broke the finger of its seven-year-old competitor. Translated from… ...

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From reports of people living at airports. A German former pilot spent thirteen days in Viracopos–Campinas International Airport after he was dumped by a woman he met online. An Indian… ...

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Vildolency, Blaccarra, and Blossomnia, mixed-media artworks (photographs of found-object sculptures with applied color and objects) by Thorsten Brinkmann, whose work was on view in December with Pablo ...