Readings Archives

Readings

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

Zeitgeist Barbie

Learning a new party line

by Miklós Vámos,

Things are not looking good for Gorby

by Harper’s Staff,

Inside Qin Cheng Prison

From “Qin Cheng Prison: A Story,” by a twenty-one-year-old Chinese student. The author, who wishes to remain anonymous, was arrested last summer for his role in the Tiananmen Square protest…

Robert Rauschenburg, Captiva, Florida

by Gianfranco Gorgoni,Art by Robert Rauschenberg,

The battle for my body

by Richard Rhodes,

Getting to know me

by Mark Leyner,

She loves me not

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

Drawn by Grahame Arnold,

Gnarly, brutal, insane

by Harper’s Staff,

Notes of a word-watcher

by Lewis Thomas,

Kansas

by Padgett Powell,

Insider

Art by Alan Magee,

Gold card

Art by Alan Magee,

[untitled]

by Harper’s Staff,

Tenure

Art by Alan Magee,

Texas

by Padgett Powell,

Texas/Kansas

by Harper’s Staff,

Menu for murder

by Martin Roth,

To be a Flying Dragon

by Harper’s Staff,

Can buy me love

by Carl S. Taylor,

Inventive incentive?

by Harper’s Staff,

Threats to civil society, east and west

Go with the flow

by James T. Carey,

Global squirming

by Harper’s Staff,

Virginia is for virgins

by Harper’s Staff,

Maki evimbi te (The eggs are not fluffy)

Art by Chéri Samba,

Readings

Drawn by Tom Toles,

The terminal motel

by Harper’s Staff,

Who are these animals we kill?

by Barry Lopez,

Readings

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

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Zeitgeist Barbie

Learning a new party line

Things are not looking good for Gorby

Inside Qin Cheng Prison

Robert Rauschenburg, Captiva, Florida

The battle for my body

Getting to know me

She loves me not

Readings

Gnarly, brutal, insane

Notes of a word-watcher

Kansas

Insider

Gold card

[untitled]

Tenure

Texas

Texas/Kansas

Menu for murder

To be a Flying Dragon

Can buy me love

Inventive incentive?

Threats to civil society, east and west

Go with the flow

Global squirming

Virginia is for virgins

Maki evimbi te (The eggs are not fluffy)

Readings

The terminal motel

Who are these animals we kill?

August 1990

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