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The Address Book

by Sophie Calle,

In June 1983, Calle found an address book on the street in Paris and photocopied the contents before returning it to its owner, Pierre D. She then began to contact…

Bore of the Worlds

From a December 2008 email by the last UFO desk officer of the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, included in files released in July by the British National Archives. The…

The Longest Days

by Richard Burton,

From actor Richard Burton’s diary entries recording a trip with his wife Elizabeth Taylor to visit Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in preparation for The Battle of Sutjeska, a 1973…

Finger in the fuse

by Robert Polito,

Becoming Pauline Kael

The great communicator

by Seth Rosenfeld,

Revelations from Ronald Reagan's FBI file

Rethinking the Kool-Aid

by Leigh Fondakowski,

Cold cocked

by G. Murray (George Murray) Levick,

Chore List of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut,

From a January 26, 1947, contract between Kurt Vonnegut and his pregnant wife, Jane, to whom he had been married for sixteen months. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, edited by Dan Wakefield,…

War Dogs

by Aleksandar Hemon,

The last distinction? Talking to the animals

by Benjamin Hale,

Breeds of America

by William Melvin Kelley,

Coming of age and coming of race

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