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In a room in Dharamsala there is a shelf of cassette copies, digitised twice since, of performances recorded between 1984 and 1991 by a collecting project that was one of the more admirable things …

The incentive schedule is a laminated sheet and I have carried a copy in my bag for eleven years. It lists what a female community health volunteer in Nepal is paid for, per event. A referral for a…

My uncle's field flooded in June, which is what it is for. It flooded again in the second week of August, which is not, and the second flood took the crop. He replanted. The replanting failed too, …

I buy my copies secondhand, and not for the reason people assume, which is money; the reason is that a used book arrives with an argument already in progress. The copy of Middlemarch on my desk cos…

Station 04185000 sits on a concrete pier under a county road bridge in northwest Ohio, and it has been reporting stage height every fifteen minutes since 1974. In April 2018 a piece of agricultural…

The suit was filed in 1985 over four acres and a house near Karad, between two branches of a family that had until then been one. My grandfather was a defendant. My father inherited the position on…

The poster has been on the wall opposite the check-in desk in our Erie County clinic for three years. It explains, in two languages and a font somebody chose carefully, how to appeal a denied claim…

Permitted wetland losses in this state are recorded in one system, by permit number, with an acreage. Compensatory wetlands — the ones created or restored to offset those losses — are recorded in a…

The 2017 revision removed four pages on the Bengal famine from the class eight textbook. The stated reason, in the committee minutes, is that the chapter ran long and the material was covered in cl…

I went back to Ohio in April to look at a plant that opened in 2023 with a great deal of ceremony. It makes a part that used to be made in Monterrey. The governor came. There were remarks about bri…