Readings Archives

Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

Fashion victims

by Harper’s Staff,

Ivory-tower masochists

by Stanley Eugene Fish,

The perils of academic celebrity

by Harper’s Staff,

The Fermat riots

by Eric Zorn,

The dismal science lightens up

by Harper’s Staff,

Poland’s great communicator

Translated by David Ost,

The Left, Lost in the Politics of Identity

by Todd Gitlin,

Adapted from “From Universality to Difference: Notes on the Fragmentation of the Idea of the Left.” Originally appeared in the Winter 1993 issue of Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and…

The politics of German pessimism

Translated by Timothy Sultan,

Good seats behind the plate

by Harper’s Staff,

Pro-life props

by Harper’s Staff,

NAFTA

by Geoffrey P. Faux,

A warning for the president

[untitled]

by Elizabeth Murray,

The tangled flowering green footbridge

by Elizabeth Murray,

Rose bowers lead home

by Elizabeth Murray,

On not thinking about nature

by Charles Simic,

Weekend

by Amy Hempel,

One is the point

by H.L. Hix,

Summer storms

by Larry Woiwode,

Dizzyland

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

Drawn by John Callahan,

Returning to South Africa

by Jenefer Shute,

Readings

by Linda Casey,

Let’s taking a meeting

by Slava Vlasov, Serge Roshal,

Rockers and knockers

by Harper’s Staff,

A Bartlett’s for the computer age

by Don Steinberg,

Sportswriting made really, really easy

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by Dani Steele,

Educating in a pessimistic age

Gays and insurance

by Timothy Joseph Casey,

The peroxide defense

The eloquent auto

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

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Fashion victims

Ivory-tower masochists

The perils of academic celebrity

The Fermat riots

The dismal science lightens up

Poland’s great communicator

The Left, Lost in the Politics of Identity

The politics of German pessimism

Good seats behind the plate

Pro-life props

NAFTA

[untitled]

The tangled flowering green footbridge

Rose bowers lead home

On not thinking about nature

Weekend

One is the point

Summer storms

Dizzyland

Readings

Returning to South Africa

Readings

Let’s taking a meeting

Rockers and knockers

A Bartlett’s for the computer age

Sportswriting made really, really easy

Readings

Educating in a pessimistic age

Gays and insurance

The eloquent auto

September 1993

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