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My Two Visits to Verdun

by Walter Hale,

commenced in February. It was over the Voie Sacrée that the gallant Twentieth Corps — the corps d’attaque that has been used as the drivingwedge in every big assault since…

The Other Zionism

by I. F. Stone,

The main current of Zionism has always nourished itself on the illusions that the Jews were “a people without a land” returning to “a land without a people.” But there…

Harlem Is Nowhere

by Ralph Ellison,

To live in Harlem is to dwell in the very bowels of the city; it is to pass a labyrinthine existence among streets that explode monotonously skyward with the spires…

Interrogation

by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzheniëtìsyn,

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years…

Invasion Diary

by Vernon Bartlett,

Tuesday, June 6. I turned on the radio for the eight a.m. news. The announcer spoke about special warnings which had been broadcast to our Allies in Western Europe. There…

Humor

by Mark Twain,

Repetition is a mighty power in the domain of humor. I undertook to prove the truth of this forty years ago in San Francisco on the occasion of my second…

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My Two Visits to Verdun

The Other Zionism

Harlem Is Nowhere

Interrogation

Invasion Diary

Humor

October 2014

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