“Annie Ernaux manages to create what feels like a new tense—a literary time zone that can hold it all at once.”

“You were generous to me on a day when you had no reason to be. I wish I’d been kinder in return.”

  On the top floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a printer is printing the news. As the printer groans and stutters, long loops of paper gather on the gallery floor. It prints slowly, pausing every few minutes, as the paper grows i…

  If you read police blotters enough, you start to notice the colors: Pink bike. A yellow color backpack. Silver four-door sedan. Heather-blue uniform pants. A black male wearing a black hat with white lettering, a navy blue coat, and blue jea…