Readings Archives

Readings

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

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…

Readings

Drawn by Edgar Argo,

California’s chances

by Steven G. Wesnousky,

A child’s prison

by Elizabeth Marek,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Night, the final frontier

by Murray Melbin,

Reading comprehension

by Peter Cherches,

Foiling the urine police

by Harper’s Staff,

Reaganomics with a human face

by Robert Lekachman,

Kitchen Spanish

by Leslie Hayden,

Onward Christian singles

by Harper’s Staff,

The geography of gender

by Anne Gibson, Timothy Fast,

Interpreting Palestine

by Edward W. Said,

Matchless tobacco

by Keith V. Wood,

The last mama-on-a-couch play

by George C. Wolfe,

Pinned

by August Kleinzahler,

[untitled]

by Sally Mann,

Readings

by Sally Mann,

Readings

by Sally Mann,

Tourists in hell

by Myles F. Harris,

Spring-shock

by James Dickey,

Maasai

Art by Malcolm Morley,

The Americas

Translated by Cedric Belfrage,

Enlightenment and enterprise

Management among thieves

by James A. Wall,

The politics of toothpaste

by Steven Lydenberg, Alice Tepper Marlin, Sean O’Brien Strub,

The fine print

by Harper’s Staff,

How nit-picking regulations get that way

by Robert B. Reich,

I Know You’re Out There

by Harper’s Staff,

Not-Kochisms

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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Elegy

Jealousy

Readings

California’s chances

A child’s prison

Readings

Night, the final frontier

Reading comprehension

Foiling the urine police

Reaganomics with a human face

Kitchen Spanish

Onward Christian singles

The geography of gender

Interpreting Palestine

Matchless tobacco

The last mama-on-a-couch play

Pinned

[untitled]

Readings

Readings

Tourists in hell

Spring-shock

Maasai

The Americas

Management among thieves

The politics of toothpaste

The fine print

How nit-picking regulations get that way

I Know You’re Out There

Not-Kochisms

March 1987

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