Readings Archives

Readings

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

Readings

by Jared Moossy,

Status Update

From a February 2010 Facebook chat between Christopher Winfield and his son Adam, an Army specialist with a Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan. According to Army investigators, two more…

Golden Parachutes and Ladders

Janus mask, Nkim Village, Nigeria

by Phyllis Galembo,

The party of loss

by Corey Robin,

The chairs

by Lydia Davis,

Pouchet’s wife

by Lydia Davis,

Suez Canal, Egypt

by David Burdeny,

Were I a Periwinkle

by Uljana Wolf,Translated by Susan Bernofsky, Timothy Donnelly, Ute Schwartz, Matthea Harvey,

Five Stories from Flaubert

by Lydia Davis,

Rooster and Turkey (after Hondecoeter)

Art by Shelley Reed,

Cloacadoodledoo

From Food and Drug Administration inspection reports on Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg Farms, filed in August after the Iowa farms voluntarily recalled over 500 million eggs due to…