Readings Archives

Fear Review

by Luis Sancho,

From an affidavit submitted March 21 by Luis Sancho to the U.S. District Court of Honolulu in support of a lawsuit against the Department of Energy, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,…

Contempt of Court

by Aaron Wider,

From a deposition given over two days last year by Aaron Wider, CEO of HTFC, a mortgage investor, to Robert Bodzin, a lawyer for GMAC Bank. In February, U.S. District…

Cheaper Cell

by Muhammad Atef,

From a memorandum by Mohammed Atef, a.k.a. Abu Hafs, an Egyptian-born Al Qaeda leader who died in Afghanistan in 2001, to Abu Khabab, an Al Qaeda member. Translated from the…

Breathing Is for Closers

From a lawsuit filed in January by Chad Hudgens against Joshua Christopherson and Prosper, Inc., a motivational-coaching firm based in Utah. Hudgens, who worked at Prosper as a salesman under…

Trailer of Tears

by Leonard Samuel Shoen,

From a December 16, 1976, management bulletin by L. S. Shoen, founder of U-Haul and company chairman from 1945 to 1986. The document was obtained by the Los Angeles Times,…

From testimony delivered March 12 before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce. Rowe is codirector of West Marin Commons, a community-organizing group, in California.…

Cigarette

by Sarah Pickering,

Grid

Art by Nicholas Evans-Cato,

The death of Lazarus Averbuch

by Aleksandar Hemon,

Search and destroy

by Harper’s Staff,

A conspiracy of dunces

by Harper’s Staff,

My metaphor weighs tons

by William Davies King,

Official probe

by Gloria Squitiro,

Readings

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

Graphic violence

The poll tax riots

The city of Boston

The boy from Shanghai

Bluebird Canyon

How beautiful the mountain

Go directly to jail

The searchers

Endless reasons to die

A servant to my chief

Untitled recoil

Fear Review

Contempt of Court

Cheaper Cell

The doctor is out

Breathing Is for Closers

Trailer of Tears

Death be not green

Sweeping through

The stoned leading the blind

Management

Generation why?

Our Phony Economy

Cigarette

Grid

The death of Lazarus Averbuch

Search and destroy

A conspiracy of dunces

My metaphor weighs tons

Official probe

Debug

Readings

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

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Graphic violence

The poll tax riots

The city of Boston

The boy from Shanghai

Bluebird Canyon

How beautiful the mountain

Go directly to jail

The searchers

Endless reasons to die

A servant to my chief

Untitled recoil

Fear Review

Contempt of Court

Cheaper Cell

The doctor is out

Breathing Is for Closers

Trailer of Tears

Death be not green

Sweeping through

The stoned leading the blind

Management

Generation why?

Our Phony Economy

Cigarette

Grid

The death of Lazarus Averbuch

Search and destroy

A conspiracy of dunces

My metaphor weighs tons

Official probe

July 2008

Debug