Readings Archives

The joke is gone

by Giles Coren, Mia Aimaro Ogden, Joanna Duckworth,

These days

Art by Ida Tursic, Wilfried Mille,

On the Economy of the Dead

by John Berger,

From Left Curve: No. 31. Berger’s most recent work of fiction, From A to X, is out this month from Verso. His “Portrait of a Masked Man” appeared in the…

A new paradise, or a new hell

by José Saramago,Translated by Margaret Jull Costa,

Pity the elderly gray translator

by Vladimir Nabokov,

God Does Play Dice

by Stephen Haliczer,

From cards used in the board game Vatican: Unlock the Secrets of How Men Become Pope, created by Stephen Haliczer, a professor at Northern Illinois University. The game, which purports…

Paper Pushkin

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin,Translated by Simona Schneider,

From two 1824 letters by Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Kaznacheev. The first is in response to an assignment to investigate the extermination of locusts that Pushkin refused to undertake; the…

Teen Beat

From a February 2003 video recording of an interrogation by Canadian officials of Omar Khadr, a Canadian national accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and currently held at…

Inhuman Resources

From the minutes of a Counter Resistance Strategy Meeting, held October 2, 2002, at Guantánamo Bay. The minutes, which paraphrase comments and questions from the meeting, were released June 17…

Made-to-measure on site–laymen and professionals

Art by Goran Djurovic,

From a video recording of a July meeting in London between Stephen Payne and Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov. Payne is president of the lobbying firm Worldwide Strategic Partners. Dosmukhamedov, a.k.a. Eric Dos,…

The Naughts

by Roger D. Hodge,

This essay appears as the introduction to Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine, to be published this month by the New Press. Hodge is the…

Icy prospects #7

by Jorma Puranen,

Readings

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

Fires in the Gila

Words into hype

Quill bill

The joke is gone

Subway

Untitled (Niemandsland)

The Monk of Abu Ghraib

Unreal Estate

All that you can’t be

A perfect circle

Philosopher kings

These days

A sea-change

The only place to go

Houston 45

On the Economy of the Dead

Wall view

A new paradise, or a new hell

Pity the elderly gray translator

God Does Play Dice

Paper Pushkin

Memories of the factory

Teen Beat

Inhuman Resources

Beds

The western cannon

Made-to-measure on site–laymen and professionals

Many People Have Done Worse

The Naughts

Icy prospects #7

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Readings

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

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Fires in the Gila

Words into hype

Quill bill

The joke is gone

Subway

Untitled (Niemandsland)

The Monk of Abu Ghraib

Unreal Estate

All that you can’t be

A perfect circle

Philosopher kings

These days

A sea-change

The only place to go

Houston 45

On the Economy of the Dead

Wall view

A new paradise, or a new hell

Pity the elderly gray translator

God Does Play Dice

Paper Pushkin

Memories of the factory

Teen Beat

Inhuman Resources

Beds

The western cannon

Made-to-measure on site–laymen and professionals

Many People Have Done Worse

The Naughts

Icy prospects #7

October 2008

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