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20th century

Page Turner

by John Crowley,

The time is close at hand when the scattered members of the civilized communities will be as closely united, as far as instant telephonic communication is concerned, as the various…

Harlem Is Nowhere

by Ralph Ellison,

To live in Harlem is to dwell in the very bowels of the city; it is to pass a labyrinthine existence among streets that explode monotonously skyward with the spires…

Each According to His Ability

by Andrei Platonov,

From responses by Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) to authors who submitted manuscripts in 1920 to The Red Village, a newspaper that he edited. Platonov’s novels include Chevengur and The Foundation Pit;…

Say Watt?

by Samuel Beckett,

From a letter by Samuel Beckett, dated February 14, 1957, responding with what he called “heart-felt sympathy” to queries from a German translator of his 1935 poetry collection Echo’s Bones…

The Seductive Catastrophe

by Frederic Morton,

Why the world went to war in 1914

Armed and Dangerous

by William Pfaff,

The inexorable rise of American militarism

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Library of Dribble

by Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Ferrari,Translated by Jason Wilson,

From Conversations, a collection of dialogues conducted in 1984 and 1985 between Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Osvaldo Ferrari, out next month from Seagull Books. Translated from the…

AUTOMOBILE. Field sobriety test. Photographer unknown. 07-06-1958

A Portrait of the Artist as a Syphilitic

by Kevin Birmingham,

Revisiting James Joyce’s medical record

Stop Time

by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Geoff Dyer,

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

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