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20th century

Othello’s Son

by Frederic Morton,

A racial education

Bartleby on the Prairie

by Paul Elie,

The unspent life of J. F. Powers

Regarding the Fame of Others

by Jonathan Cott, Susan Sontag,

From previously unpublished excerpts of a 1978 interview with Susan Sontag by Jonathan Cott. An edited version of the interview appeared in the October 4, 1979, issue of Rolling Stone.…

Ad Absurdum

by Thomas Frank,

Suppose we decide to take a look at the Sixties from a fresh perspective. Suppose we start not with politicians, or soldiers in Vietnam, or civil rights protesters, or Woodstock…

Other Types of Poison

by Rebecca Makkai,

Three legends

Brush with History

From a June 7, 1923, letter sent to the personal secretary of Leon Trotsky, then Russian minister of defense, by the Nestle Laboratory for Hair Research in New York City,…

Pitch and Moan

by Henry Jaglom, Orson Welles,

From a recording of a 1983 meeting between Orson Welles, the film director Henry Jaglom, and an HBO executive. Beginning in 1978, Jaglom met Welles regularly for lunch, and at…

The Age of Cruelty

by Jeff Madrick,

Following heavy Democratic losses in the 2010 congressional elections, Barack Obama announced that he was reading a biography of Ronald Reagan to see how the great man had handled his…

Fei Fei

by Liao Yiwu,Translated by Wenguang Huang,

By Liao Yiwu, from For a Song and a Hundred Songs, out next month from New Harvest. Liao, who was born in China in 1958, spent four years in prison…

Untitled 1970-1973

by William Eggleston,

Our Town

by Ariel Sabar,

How Roger Barker made Oskaloosa, Kansas, his laboratory

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