From explanations given by priests as to why sexual abuse was acceptable, as described in Pennsylvania’s “Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report.” The report, which was released in August, ...

From a lawsuit filed in February in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Panda Express and Alive Seminars, a company hired by the fast-food chain to run a four-day self-improvement… ...

From complaints submitted to the City of Reno, Nevada, last year. One night this summer I was walking with my wife and two friends from out of town. We witnessed… ...

From a Department of Justice report on the Tulsa race massacre that was published in January, before President Biden left office, and conducted by its Cold Case Unit, Civil Rights… ...

From Speaking in Tongues, by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, which will be published this month by Liveright. j. m. coetzee: I was writing something yesterday, concentrating intensely on getting ...

The corpse flower, when it opens every few years, attracts admirers by the tens of thousands. It is only in bloom for two or three days, and for those days it stinks. People stand in line to savor its ...

Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. Edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter. Translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton University Press. 944 pages. $39.95. Our doomed thought ...

It’s like this, says Lili. I left and I came back. I went and I returned. I tried. But I’m not made for success. Others might have succeeded. Not me. I’m not made for glory. I’m made for defeat. I’ll ...

From What Is Wrong with Men, a study of how portrayals of the American man have changed in films starring Michael Douglas, which will be published next month by Pantheon.

Escaped by breaking the Jail of the Parish o Jefferson, on the night of Tuesday 11th inst, an American Negro named Jack, aged about 45 years; who has lost his toes. Also, a French Negro named Paul, ...

From a Department of Justice report on the Tulsa race massacre that was published in January, before President Biden left office, and conducted by its Cold Case Unit, Civil Rights Division. Shortly ...

From The Essential C. D. Wright, which will be published this month by Copper Canyon Press.