Readings Archives

Readings

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

Afraid to be men

by Padgett Powell,

Sheiks and geeks

by Harper’s Staff,

Dimma

by Riitta Päiväläinen,

Coin Strategy

by Harper’s Staff,

From statements included in more than 800 claims for compensation submitted to the U.S. Army by the families of civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2007. The…

Xenicus longipes

by Kimiko Hahn,

Westmuenster

by Harper’s Staff,

From a March 3 meeting of the British Parliament’s House of Lords. Lord Brabazon of Tara is the chairman of committees. baroness finlay of llandaff: What measures are being considered…

Crystal metaphors

by Harper’s Staff,

The coming solitude

Art by Hernan Bas,

Why I write

by Barry Hannah,

Readings

by Miroslav Tichy`ý,

Night of the giving dead

by Harper’s Staff,

Man in airport

Art by Tim Gardner,

Just like heaven

by Paul Ford,

Problem behavior

by Mie Lewis,

Readings

by Alexander Gronsky,

Loaner Hearts

Translated by Spencer Woodman,

From personals posted in January to online classified sites in China. Chinese New Year was celebrated on February 14. Translated from the Chinese by Spencer Woodman. I’m looking for a…