Distraction

It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

From the Diaries: Groundhog Day Protests 2017

The Last Last Summer: On Donald Trump and the Fall of Atlantic City

Notes on the Concession

From the Diaries: Lecture Review; Memoir

Exit Bernie

From the Diaries: New York Signs: Last Exit for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge; Yield; Siamese Connection; LIRR; R Trains Run Express; Stop

Letter to Ruth May Rivers

First Family, Second Life: On Thomas Pynchon

Letterform, Islandform

From the Diaries: Meditations

9/11 Blue

From the Diaries: Hat Lessons Gleaned from Attending a Film Noir Marathon with a Nonagenarian Ex-Milliner Who Never Stops Talking

Letter to Stephen Shore

Downtown Underground: On John Zorn

From the Diaries: Meditations from the Gym

Editing the I: On Gordon Lish

From the Diaries: Four Facts I Learned in a Bar on Staten Island; A Successful Man in Chicago Is Complimented on His Suit

Lip Service: On Aretha and Beyoncé

Wiki: What I Know Is

Boundless Informant: On Greenwald’s Snowden

From the Diaries: Salt and Pepper Shakers; When We Stopped Saying We Were Going to Move Out of the City

Datasexual: On Morozov, Lanier, Johnson, and Google

From the Diaries: Navajo Reservation; Medium Thoreau

Writing About the Present: Mirror, Body, Shadow

From the Diaries: Brows; Freckles

Zibaldone Diary

Žižek Press Junket

From the Diaries: Conversation Summary (Next Table); Why I’ve Never Had Sex in Hungary

No One Hates Him More: On Franzen’s Kraus

Recognized Witness: On H. G. Adler

From the Diaries: What Kind of Neighborhood Is Palilula (Belgrade)?; The Hague

Conducting Mortality: On Henry-Louis de La Grange’s Mahler

Fencing for Hitler: On Helene Mayer

Speak Easy: On Bohumil Hrabal

From the Diaries: Museum Fact (Rijeka); Critical Typo

Hung Like an Obelisk, Hard as an Olympian: An Abecedarium of English-Language Publishing in Paris

From the Diaries: Sounds of Odessa; Sights of Odessa; Odessa Fashion; Odessa at Work; Odessa Geography; London Stumble

Pond Memories (on Georges Perec)

Auto-Flâneurism (on Tom McCarthy)

From the Diaries: The Only Caravaggio in Russia; My Friend’s Estimation of His Grandfather, a Forgotten Hungarian Painter

The Death of Culture, and Other Hypocrisies (on Mario Vargas Llosa)

All Foison, All Abundance (on Florio’s Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Florio)

From the Diaries: Sentences from an English-Language Workbook Found in Sofia; A Phrase that Must Be, but Is Not, Originally Yiddish

Inner Syntax (on Eimear McBride)

Inadvertence (on Alan Turing’s Centennial)

Her Own Asylum (on Anna Kavan)

From the Diaries: American Woman Complimented by Greek Man; Bucharest Hostel

Bibliothanatos, or Epigraphs for a Last Book

Open Sesame

Me, U, Baku, Quba

From the Diaries: Adoration of New Magi; Le Pont Mirabeau

On the Transit of Toledo

In Partial Disgrace (on Charles Newman)

From the Diaries: A Certain Angle; The Mind Too; A; Posterity

Reorientalism (on Mathias Énard)

The Literature of Two Easts

From the Diaries: Traveling

Israel Diary

Lines of Occupation (on Yitzhak Laor)

From the Diaries: To Think; Traveling Without You

Literary Animals

Top Ten Books About Online

From the Diaries: What’s in the Bag?; Overnight Flight WC; Shooting

Impromptu Fantasias (on Benjamin de Casseres)

Paragraph for Liu Xiaobo

From the Diaries: There Should Be Words for the Following in German; Germany to Jersey for the Holidays

Thoughts on the Roths and Their Kaddish

Dream Translations from the Early Hasidic

A (Short) History

Editors' Note

by Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen

Uri

by Joshua Cohen

quite a foreign world to me but really good. about a guy who spends time in the Israeli army

The Last Last Summer

Donald Trump and the fall of Atlantic City by Joshua Cohen