From an April 23, 1971, telephone conversation between Allen Ginsberg and Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser to President Richard Nixon. Eugene McCarthy had left the Senate that January. Richard…
From a lecture delivered in January at the Gorée Institute, in Senegal. Breytenbach’s essay “Mandela’s Smile” appeared in the December 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine. First it was the voice. It…