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Readings

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

Unwilling spectator 2

Art by Carlos Irijalba,

The first wife

by Rona Amir Mohammad,

I, etcetera

by Susan Sontag,

[untitled]

Art by Norbert Bisky,

Stampede

Art by Norbert Bisky,

Tunnel

Art by Norbert Bisky,

The Art of Waiting

by Belle Boggs,

From the March/April 2012 issue of Orion. Boggs is the author of the short-story collection Mattaponi Queen. It’s spring when I realize that I may never have children, and around…

Owls

Art by Olive Ayhens,

The baby

by James Tate,

I Can’t Read

by Roberto Bolaño,Translated by Chris Andrews,

From The Secret of Evil, a collection of writing found on Bolaño’s computer after his death in 2003, out in April from New Directions. Translated from the Spanish by Chris…

Mopey Dick

by Harper’s Staff,

Electric ladyland

by Craig Taylor,

Our hole

by Walter Martin, Paloma Muñoz,

Terms of release

by Harper’s Staff,

Singing soprano

by Harper’s Staff,

Grim repo

by Harper’s Staff,

Heart of snarkness

by Harper’s Staff,

In Kurt’s proximity II

Art by Razvan Boar,

The archduke’s assassin

by John Ralston Saul,

Anders the crusader

Family history

by Valérie Mréjen,Translated by Lorin Stein,

Royal Netherlands Army #10

by Jeroen Hofman,

Fuss budgeting

by Harper’s Staff,

London falling

by Harper’s Staff,

Hail to the thief

by Harper’s Staff,

Blagging rights

by Harper’s Staff,

Water spray

by Harper’s Staff,

Not with a bang

Translated by Xiyun Yang,

Dreamboat

Art by Cecily Brown,

Timetable

by Winfried Georg Sebald,Translated by Iain Galbraith,

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