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Readings

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

Arabian night

by Sophia Al-Maria,

A Supposedly Fun Thing

by Harper’s Staff,

The academic marketplace

by Harper’s Staff,

Equestrian portrait of the Count-Duke Olivares

Art by Kehinde Wiley,

Sonnet for a tango in the twilight

by Jorge Luis Borges,Translated by Stephen Kessler,

Pennies to heaven

by Joachim Kalka,

Readings

Art by David Maisel,

History’s shadow

Art by David Maisel,

Readings

Art by David Maisel,

Readings

Art by David Maisel,

Readings

Art by David Maisel,

Immersed

Art by Kristine Moran,

I, sexbot

by Harper’s Staff,

The history of The History of Death

by Paul La Farge,

The sorrows of young Umar

by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,

Protect and preserve

by David Knepper,

Atlas bugged

by Harper’s Staff,

Blickpunkt 3

by Forian Bachmann,Art by Vera Ida Müller,

Six more considerations

by Lydia Davis,

Garçon!

From an October 27, 2009, statement by the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, based in Bangkok. In a 2005 book, The Bad Life, French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand wrote…

Desperation Theology

by Tim Jones,

From “A Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent,” delivered by Rev. Tim Jones on December 20, 2009, at the Church of St. Lawrence in York, England. The life of…

Aurora, Detroit, 2008

by Andrew Moore,

Nobody’s Detroit

by Philip Levine,

Lamb cam

by Sam Easterson,

Chick cam

by Sam Easterson,

Animal-borne imaging

by Sam Easterson,

Duck cam

by Sam Easterson,

Armadillo cam

by Sam Easterson,

Pheasant cam

by Sam Easterson,

Wolf cam

by Sam Easterson,

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