Readings Archives

Readings

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

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Time waits for Pee Wee Herman

Drawn by P.S. Mueller,

Uncle Sam, Stay Home

by Carlos Fuentes,

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,

McReading

by Roger W. Shuy,

Heavy weather

by Jane Feuer,

Economic Justice—For Us and Them

by Samuel Bowles,

Out of Vietnam

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by Ted Spagna,

VIP’s and sea turtles

by Allen Neuharth,

Collect ’em, trade ’em

by Harper’s Staff,

And they’ll smell of Russian vodka

by Harper’s Staff,

Newsroom chivalry

by George Cotliar,

The story of his life

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

History outside of history

by Greil Marcus,

The last time Emmett modeled nude

by Sally Mann,

1988

by Eric Bogosian,

The function of art

Music lessons

by Lynda Barry,

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot

by Mark Leyner,

Readings

by Jan Staller,

Sartre: on Writing for One’s Age

by Jean Paul Sartre,

1945: Palestine’s Promise

by I.F. (Isidor F.) Stone,

Mike McGuire passes the torch

by Michael McGuire,

Readings

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

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Readings

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

McReading

Heavy weather

Economic Justice—For Us and Them

Out of Vietnam

Readings

VIP’s and sea turtles

Collect ’em, trade ’em

And they’ll smell of Russian vodka

Newsroom chivalry

The story of his life

Readings

History outside of history

The last time Emmett modeled nude

1988

Music lessons

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot

Readings

Sartre: on Writing for One’s Age

1945: Palestine’s Promise

Mike McGuire passes the torch

January 1989

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