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Obamandela

From a lecture delivered in January at the Gorée Institute, in Senegal. Breytenbach’s essay “Mandela’s Smile” appeared in the December 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine. First it was the voice. It…

Wow, Fiction Works!

by Colson Whitehead,

By Colson Whitehead, from “James Root on How to Read,” part of a talk delivered last July at the Tin House Writers Workshop, in Portland, Oregon. Sag Harbor, Whitehead’s fourth…

Krisuvik geothermal field, Iceland

by Joan Myers,

You didn’t have to shoot the kid

by Harper’s Staff,

God Is My Shelter

by Daniel Rothenberg,

By Kazim, a Shia resident of Amara, Iraq, from a personal narrative recorded by the Current Violations in Iraq Project. Directed by Daniel Rothenberg of the International Human Rights Law…

Always another word

by Zadie Smith, George Saunders, Don DeLillo,

X, the scourge

by Susan Sontag,Edited by David Rieff,

“Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” released October 22 by Focus on the Family Action, an activist group affiliated with James Dobson’s conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family. October…

The times, they are a-changin’

by Harper’s Staff,

Bauhaus

Art by Peter Waite,

Previews

by Rae Armantrout,

Origins of poetry

by Joel Lipman,

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Obamandela

Study for memory lane

Wow, Fiction Works!

Briefly noted

Krisuvik geothermal field, Iceland

Smooth operator

Otherwhere

The estrangement

You didn’t have to shoot the kid

Hard labor

Plaza

By chance, of course

The war on telephone poles

Ill NiÃ±o/Irving Plaza

Dream studio

Tool time

God Is My Shelter

Floating away

Country club II

Always another word

Readings

My first real home

War is helmet

Flood at DeKalb Ave.

X, the scourge

Barack to the Future

The times, they are a-changin’

Bauhaus

Previews

Origins of poetry

Debug

Readings

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

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Obamandela

Study for memory lane

Wow, Fiction Works!

Briefly noted

Krisuvik geothermal field, Iceland

Smooth operator

Otherwhere

The estrangement

You didn’t have to shoot the kid

Hard labor

Plaza

By chance, of course

The war on telephone poles

Ill NiÃ±o/Irving Plaza

Dream studio

Tool time

God Is My Shelter

Floating away

Country club II

Always another word

Readings

My first real home

War is helmet

Flood at DeKalb Ave.

X, the scourge

Barack to the Future

The times, they are a-changin’

Bauhaus

Previews

Origins of poetry

March 2009

Debug