Readings Archives

Con Voyage

by Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

Rallying Tries

From posters painted by North Korean artists and sold internationally by an Italian company.

In The Tower

by Thomas Bernhard, James Reidel,

By Thomas Bernhard, from the short story “Montaigne,” which appears in Goethe Dies, a collection that was published last month by Seagull Books. Bernhard was the author of numerous novels…

Two Martyrs

by Alan Felsenthal,

By Alan Felsenthal, from the December 2015 issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Felsenthal cofounded The Song Cave, a small press. His first collection of poems is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling…

Certain Age

by Ottessa Moshfegh, Kristine McKenna,

Dialogue

From nicknames given to participants on Let Me In, a South Korean reality-television show, in which a panel of beauty experts approves contestants for a plastic-surgery makeover. The nicknames describe…

Interior: Zebra with Two Chairs and Funky Fur

by Mickalene Thomas,

Body Politic

by Eileen Myles,

From a mailing sent out by Eileen Myles in October 1992 as part of a presidential campaign in which she ran as an “openly female” write-in candidate. Myles is a…

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,…

Sitting Bear (near Zarnesti)

by Tamas Dezso,

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By Dorthe Nors, from an unpublished collection of short stories.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.

Sporting

by Caspar Claasen,

Introduction

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,

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Con Voyage

Has It

Rallying Tries

In The Tower

Two Martyrs

Avalanche

Certain Age

The Middle Ages

Rift and Taught Wrong

Pretty Hurts

Interior: Zebra with Two Chairs and Funky Fur

Body Politic

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

Debug

Readings

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

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Con Voyage

Has It

Rallying Tries

In The Tower

Two Martyrs

Avalanche

Certain Age

The Middle Ages

Rift and Taught Wrong

Pretty Hurts

Interior: Zebra with Two Chairs and Funky Fur

Body Politic

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

May 2016

Debug