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Readings

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

Book/nest

by Rosamond Wolff Purcell,

Notes for the time of ultimate candor

by Laura (Riding) Jackson,Edited by John Nolan,

Kinder, gentler

by George Bush,

God has been cloned!

by Enrique Valiente Noailles,Translated by Chris Turner,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Heroes

From complaints submitted by four San Diego firemen who were ordered to drive a fire truck in a July 21 gay-pride parade. While I was sitting there waiting for the…

To the Bat Closet

by Perry Moore,

From a list of homosexual comic-book characters and their fates. The list was compiled by Perry Moore, the author of Hero, a young-adult novel about a gay teenage superhero, published…

Tooth and consequences

by James M. Johnson,

Elbows

by Tiziano Scarpa,Translated by Gregory Conti,

No shoes, no service

by Harper’s Staff,

The dangerous book for boys

by Mohammed Irman,

Take my knife, please!

by Harper’s Staff,

Constituent outreach

by Michael D. Polensek,

Stars and stripes

Art by Ben Grasso,

The spy who came in and was cold

by Harper’s Staff,

Red beard

by Ignacio Ramonet,Translated by Andrew Hurley,

Slight of the living dead

by Amir Vehabovic,Translated by Michael Leidig,

Eld

Art by Karin Mamma Andersson,

Vivoleum

by Harper’s Staff,

Salida VI

Art by Luis E. Camejo,

Autonauts of the cosmoroute

by Anne McLean,

Why don’t you change your life?

by Harper’s Staff,

I know what you read last summer

by Ursula K. Le Guin,

The red and the black

by Harper’s Staff,

In the United States of Africa

by Abdourahman A. Waberi,

The handmaid’s tool

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood,

View of study room with books, desk and window (two parts)

Art by Robert Longo,

The writers in the silos

by Harper’s Staff,

Rehabilitation

by Daniil Kharms,Translated by Matvei Yankelevich,

She still belonged to him

by Harper’s Staff,

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