Readings Archives

From a one-page handout on “herbal abortion” distributed as part of a sex-education class last spring to students, some as young as fourteen, at the Cazadero Academy, a private high…

Guilty of chutzpah

by Harper’s Staff,

Ode to the new California

by William J. Knight,

The economy’s moving again!

by Harper’s Staff,

Sarajevo on $0 a day

by Miroslav Prstojeviâc,Translated by Aleksandra Wagner,

The family

by Ton Huijbers,

Safe-sex small talk

Edited by Alexandra Penney,

Men’s bodies, men’s selves

by John Updike,

Three ways to die from the fifties

by Robert Olen Butler,

Leaves

by Charles Simic,

Leaf pattern, sea grape tree, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida

by William Neill,

Leftovers

by Italo Calvino,Translated by Tim Parks,

Hard truths about concrete

by Peter Schjeldahl,

Giving it to the man, with relish

by Tim Archibald,

The very late edition

by Luke Jaeger, Shoshana Marchand,

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Temporary insanity

Santa’s little helper

Cranberry harvesting

The Dark Beauty of the Cigarette

On not writing

Readings

Mix it up, and they will come

The word in Mogadishu

Diary of an exile returning home

All the king’s fans

The Pentagon’s real gay policy

Becoming a leader

What gives with Joe Biden?

Clean your plate!

A pro-life equation

A Note from the School Nurse