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Readings

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

Vanishing point

Art by Sean Yelland,

Police dog and stripes

Art by Michael Harrington,

The truth is out there

by Harper’s Staff,

Sick soldier at your door

by Barry Hannah,

Lehmbruck 9-11

by Harper’s Staff,

G.O.P.Y.T.

by Ronald Reagan,

A letter from Ronald Reagan to Michael Jackson, dated February 1, 1984, five days after the singer’s hair was set afire by pyrotechnics during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.…

Known Knowns

Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya,

From a May 10, 1988, letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to all Party members. The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan began…

Child’s play

by Harper’s Staff,

How lovely wetness makes the flesh

by Tennessee Williams,

Oranges & peanuts for sale

by Eliot Weinberger,

The less you know–corrected

by Harper’s Staff,

Polar

Art by Barbara Navi,

Reasonable people

by Jay S. Bybee,

The jungle is obscene

by Werner Herzog,Translated by Krishna Winston,

Credit gone away

by Alain Mabanckou,Translated by Helen Stevenson,

Justice is blind drunk

by Harper’s Staff,

The remote viewer #03

Art by Gil Heitor Cortesão,

Can you hear me now?

by Harper’s Staff,

Objectif lune

by Charles Dantzig,Translated by Lorin Stein,

They have more money

by Doug Gollan,

The imp of the perverse

by Edgar Allan Poe,

The transparent city #88

by Michael Wolf,

Slum Pudding

by Harper’s Staff,

The education of Mr. Bumby

by Ernest Hemingway,

Sign 3

Art by Katsutoshi Yuasa,

Highgate cemetery

by Christine Schutt,

Slow peel

Art by Zohar Lazar,

Beds are burning

by Harper’s Staff,

The quivering upper lip

by Theodore Dalrymple,

The cloud corporation

by Timothy Donnelly,

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