Readings Archives

Death Watch

by Sophie Calle,

By Sophie Calle, a French conceptual artist, from an interview with Eleanor Wachtel for CBC Radio One that was published in the Winter 2016 issue of Brick. Her work Pas…

The Spy Who Came

From oral evidence given in 2013 by Mark Kennedy, a former undercover British police officer, to the British Home Affairs Committee. Between 2003 and 2010, Kennedy used a fake identity,…

Hygge

by Dorthe Nors, Misha Hoekstra,

By Dorthe Nors, from an unpublished collection of short stories. Nors is the author of four novels and one previous story collection. A volume of her novellas, So Much for…

Plowing the Field

by Philip Freeman,

From How to Grow Old, by Marcus Tullius Cicero. The work was written in 44 b.c. and was published in a new edition this month by Princeton University Press. Translated…

All My Children

by Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Karl Grammer,

From “The Case of Moulay Ismael — Fact or Fancy?” an Austrian study coauthored by Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer and published in Plos One.

Last fall, young people gathered in protest at dozens of universities across the country. Students of color spoke about feeling unwelcome or invisible, of being stereotyped, slighted, excluded, harassed. One…

Weary Oracle

by Dawn Lundy Martin,

By Dawn Lundy Martin. Martin is the author of four books of poetry, including Good Stock, which will be published by Coffee House Press in 2016. She teaches at the…

Blanket Security

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

By Thomas Chatterton Williams. Williams is the author of the memoir Losing My Cool, published by Penguin Press in 2010.

A Kind of Grace

by Hannah Black,

By Hannah Black. Black is an artist and writer from the U.K. She is the author of Dark Pool Party, which was published last month by Dominica/Arcadia Missa.

Common Cause

by Alix Rule,

By Alix Rule. Rule is a doctoral student in sociology at Columbia University.

Political Correction

by Osita Nwanevu,

By Osita Nwanevu. Nwanevu is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and the editor of the South Side Weekly.

We Out Here

by Wesley Yang,

By Wesley Yang. Yang has written for New York magazine, the New York Times, and n+1. He is at work on his first book.

Double Shadow LIV

by John Stezaker,

Imaginary August

by C.D. Wright,

By C. D. Wright (1949–2016), from ShallCross, which will be published next month by Copper Canyon Press. Wright was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry. She…

Signed and Dated

by Erica Boas, Jason A. Laker,

From a relationship contract created by a first-year male undergraduate and signed by him and a girlfriend. The contract is part of ongoing research for Consent Stories, a project by…

Apple Tree

by Alex Kanevsky,

A Child to the State

by Jacqueline Waters,

By Jacqueline Waters, from Commodore, which will be published next year by Ugly Duckling Presse. Waters is the author of two previous volumes of poetry, including, most recently, One Sleeps…

Parties Foul

by Laura Bates,

From themes of parties that have been held by college students in the United States and the U.K., collected by Laura Bates. Her book Everyday Sexism will be published in…

Never Never Man

by Laurencia Perales Blum,

From “Severe Growing-Up Phobia,” a paper that was coauthored by Laurencia Perales Blum and published in Case Reports in Psychiatry, in 2014. The paper discusses a Mexican boy who suffered…

White Rhino, Namibia, 2015

by Maroesjka Lavigne,

The Odd Couple

by Jean Stein,

From West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by Jean Stein, published this month by Random House. Stein is the author of Edie:…

Mad Maxims

by Gordon Pennycook,

From a list of aphorisms generated by randomly recombining the tweets of Deepak Chopra, and used in a study on “the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” by Gordon Pennycook,…

[Untitled]

by Mishka Henner,

Slow Feud

by Kimberly Davis, Shawn Musgrave,

From messages between Shawn Musgrave, a reporter for MuckRock.com, and Kimberly Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who defied an August 2015 court order to issue marriage licenses to…

Demoniac Babble

by Estelle Hanania,

Recipe for Success

From complaints, some of which have been dismissed or settled, detailing the alleged theft or misappropriation of trade secrets since 2009.

Tomorrow Never Knows

by Stefan Kürten,

My Diagnosis

by Jeremy M. Davies,

By Jeremy M. Davies, from The Knack of Doing, a collection of short stories that David R. Godine will publish next month. Davies is the author of two novels, Rose…

Readings

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

Death Watch

The Spy Who Came

Sitting Bear (near Zarnesti)

Hygge

Plowing the Field

All My Children

Sporting

Introduction

Weary Oracle

Blanket Security

A Kind of Grace

Common Cause

Political Correction

We Out Here

Double Shadow LIV

Imaginary August

Signed and Dated

Apple Tree

A Child to the State

Parties Foul

Never Never Man

White Rhino, Namibia, 2015

The Odd Couple

Mad Maxims

[Untitled]

Slow Feud

Demoniac Babble

Recipe for Success

Tomorrow Never Knows

My Diagnosis

Debug

Readings

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

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Death Watch

The Spy Who Came

Sitting Bear (near Zarnesti)

Hygge

Plowing the Field

All My Children

Sporting

Introduction

Weary Oracle

Blanket Security

A Kind of Grace

Common Cause

Political Correction

We Out Here

Double Shadow LIV

Imaginary August

Signed and Dated

Apple Tree

A Child to the State

Parties Foul

Never Never Man

White Rhino, Namibia, 2015

The Odd Couple

Mad Maxims

[Untitled]

Slow Feud

Demoniac Babble

Recipe for Success

Tomorrow Never Knows

My Diagnosis

April 2016

Debug