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Readings

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

Cruise control

Translated by Ryan Healey,

Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring?

by Michael Ross,

Male, Sil, and Flor, 1983-2010, Buenos Aires

by Irina Werning,

Back to the future

by Irina Werning,

Fer Farias, 1981-2011, Buenos Aires

by Irina Werning,

Ian, 1983-2010, Buenos Aires

by Irina Werning,

Tommy, 1977-2010, Buenos Aires

by Irina Werning,

Friday or Saturday

by Jack Spicer,

Homage to Caspar David Friedrich

Art by Silke Schöner,

Smooth move

by Harper’s Staff,

Beatrixpark

by Dario Voltolini,Translated by Anne Milano Appel,

An illumination

Group calling

Art by Michael Harrington,

The blood king

by Hua Yu,Translated by Allan Hepburn Barr,

Family Ties

From character descriptions for the Afghan television show The Ministry, written by the show’s producers, Kaboora Productions. The show, which aired on Afghanistan’s Tolo TV in August, is shot in…

Body politic

by Kirk Butts,

N-1 #1

by Andrea Galvani,

My brother’s keeper

by Harper’s Staff,

Cat match fever

by Ali Abdel Mohsen,

Never, Again

by Harper’s Staff,

From letters rejecting Art Spiegelman’s Maus, sent by editors at publishing houses to his agent in 1983. MetaMaus, a collection of interviews and documents about the development and publication of…

Launch special

by Harper’s Staff,

Into the Blackwoods II

Art by Andy Denzler,

Radisson confidential

by Jonathan Lethem,

Notes from Elmina IV

Art by Radcliffe Bailey,

Untitled 11, cinema play house

by Nandita Raman,

Heel, Hitler

by Reiner Kreutzwald, Willy Erkelenz,Translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer,

Learning from Sting

by Ariel Dorfman,

Eye for an I

by Ross Diskin,

String study 4

Art by Lisa Lozano,

Inwood Hill Park

Thy parishioner’s wife

by Harper’s Staff,

Six feet over

by Harper’s Staff,

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