Readings Archives

Readings

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

Worried sisters

by Sigrid Nunez,

The damnedest things

by Takayuki Yamamoto,

Stink different

by Nate Hill,

Regime Changes

by Lamis Omar,

From emails sent last year, purportedly to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, by Lamis Omar, a Ph.D. student working as his translator. The emails were among hundreds recovered by WikiLeaks and…

No one looks the same

by Harper’s Staff,

Lake Union WA 4

by Matthew Brandt,

Rethinking the Kool-Aid

by Leigh Fondakowski,

Cold cocked

by G. Murray (George Murray) Levick,

Watching humans watching XIV

by Inka Lindergård, Niclas Holmström,

Chore List of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut,

From a January 26, 1947, contract between Kurt Vonnegut and his pregnant wife, Jane, to whom he had been married for sixteen months. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, edited by Dan Wakefield,…

Brazil nots

by Harper’s Staff,

Corner with shadows, Wildwood, NJ

by Lisa Kereszi,

War Dogs

by Aleksandar Hemon,

A varying divergency

Art by Reed Danziger,

Blast rites

by Harper’s Staff,

Randy

Art by Henry Taylor,

[untitled]

Art by Henry Taylor,

Brother A

Art by Henry Taylor,

Angola

Art by Henry Taylor,

Doug, Byron Bay, NSW 2011

by Joni Sternbach,

The man who was buried standing up

by Rosemary Sullivan,

Over the moon

by Steven Lee Beeber,

Readings

by Ralph Lemon,

Single-player mode

by Tracy Fullerton,

Reb surfing

by Yosef Viener,

Screening baggage

by Harper’s Staff,

Going Dutch

by Harper’s Staff,

Just Us League

From recent emails sent to Roman Daniels, also known as Red Voltage, a leader of the Black Monday Society, a crime-fighting group that has been patrolling Salt Lake City in…

Hound’s socket

Art by Melanie Authier,

The Scientists

by Marco Roth,

From a memoir published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Roth is an editor at n+1. Secrecy came easily, at first. It felt like the natural condition of adolescence,…

Readings

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

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Worried sisters

The damnedest things

Stink different

Regime Changes

No one looks the same

Lake Union WA 4

Rethinking the Kool-Aid

Cold cocked

Watching humans watching XIV

Chore List of Champions

Brazil nots

Corner with shadows, Wildwood, NJ

War Dogs

A varying divergency

Blast rites

Randy

[untitled]

Brother A

Angola

Doug, Byron Bay, NSW 2011

The man who was buried standing up

Over the moon

Readings

Single-player mode

Reb surfing

Screening baggage

Going Dutch

Just Us League

Hound’s socket

The Scientists

September 2012

Debug