Readings Archives

Readings

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

Headgear II

by Judy Trogadis, John K. Stevens,

A death in Palestine

by Akram Hanniya,

Headgear I

by Sandi Fellman,

This just in

by Harper’s Staff,

Supreme Court Material

by Charles M. Sevilla,

From the December 1986 issue of the Champion, the journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Each month, the Champion publishes a column by Charles M. Sevilla, “Great…

Clubs fed

by Harper’s Staff,

A guide

Understanding women

by Harper’s Staff,

Dress for stress

Drawn by Matthew Finch,

Operation scare-the-pants-off-’em

by Harper’s Staff,

Sworn enemies of the IRS

by Harper’s Staff,

Bible belts

by Harper’s Staff,

Virginity regained

by Coleen Kelly Mast,

The new morality

Drawn by Bill Plympton,

Calling all soldiers

by John Adams Wickham,

Fraternalist manifesto

by Christopher Lasch,

An open letter

by Seamus Heaney,

Night thoughts

by Leonard Schwartz,

Illuminations

by Rosamond Wolff Purcell, Stephen Jay Gould,

Readings

by Rosamond Wolff Purcell, Stephen Jay Gould,

Readings

by Rosamond Wolff Purcell, Stephen Jay Gould,

Elegy

by Christianne Balk,

Jealousy

by Leonard Michaels,

The girl who only because she walked arm in arm with her sweetheart looked quietly around. —Kafka’s Diaries He phoned his wife at her lover’s apartment. She asked him to…