Readings Archives

Adapted from a speech given by Carlos Fuentes in May 1988 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Fuentes’s latest novel, VLAD, will be published in English by Dalkey Archive…

Readings

Art by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon,

The future as a cow

by Lucie Brock-Broido,

Hot golf spots

by Harper’s Staff,

In our state

by Tom Drury,

Lanesboro #8

by Thomas Bremer,

A river’s route

by Gretel Ehrlich,

Readings

Drawn by Roger Haldane,

Readings

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

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D.C.’s “Scream”

Collecting Ollie & Co.

Why I won’t go to Germany

Words for my daughter

Monogrammed landscapes

Lime-congealed salad

A writer’s blocks

Ultimate nudity

What it be

Pop culture, auto-canonized

Thorns

Experienced, qualified–and stupid

In the spirit of Spiro

Gorby the Antichrist

Advice for refuseniks

Maggie gets even

Bravo 20 bombing range near Fallon, Nevada, 1986

Are you cut out for the CIA?

Uranium, in moderation

Where the people are nice and the trains run on time

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Time waits for Pee Wee Herman

Uncle Sam, Stay Home

Readings

The future as a cow

Hot golf spots

In our state

Lanesboro #8

A river’s route

Readings

February 1989

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