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20th century

American Imperium

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

Wilt Thou not Walk

I never knew just when I passed the border into Germany because no frontier official stopped me. I thought it odd that there should be a border warfare so recently…

Body Politic

by Eileen Myles,

From a mailing sent out by Eileen Myles in October 1992 as part of a presidential campaign in which she ran as an “openly female” write-in candidate. Myles is a…

Legalize It All

by Dan Baum,

How to win the war on drugs

Swedish Snaps

by Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck,

In 1930 we went to live in Sweden. Before we had unpacked, and while I was still in that baffled mood that always comes on me when forced to tackle…

Something Big

by Geoff Dyer,

The legend of the Watts Towers

Political Correction

by Osita Nwanevu,

By Osita Nwanevu. Nwanevu is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and the editor of the South Side Weekly.

Rule, Britannica

by John Crowley,

They look like a segment of Borges’s Library of Babel: twenty-four volumes almost uniform in bulk (a thousand pages each, give or take a few), identically bound in a reddish-brown…

The Odd Couple

by Jean Stein,

From West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by Jean Stein, published this month by Random House. Stein is the author of Edie:…

Rebellion in The Corn Belt

by Mary Heaton Vorse,

The picketing had not been stopped when we arrived in Sioux City. We had come through Indiana and Illinois into Iowa. In two days we had not passed through wild…

Family Business

by David Lipsky,

Mr. and Mrs. Nabokov’s half-century

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