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Miles to Go

From a comment posted on the website elaph.com in March by the “digital outreach team” of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs. The team, which consists of…

11. The National Character

by Earl Shorris,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” The undoing of the American character has a long history. It took more than half a century from a summer’s day in August, when the…

Yelp

by Allen Ginsberg,

Dearest Bug

by Martha Gellhorn,

The Still Point of the Turning World

by Jennifer Szalai,

Joan Didion and the opposite of meaning

“Don’t Watch the News”

by Frederick Busch,

A Marine’s family lives from phone call to phone call

Out of Iraq

by Adam Davidson,

The rise and fall of one man's occupation

Strangely Familiar

by Harper’s Staff,

From a list of plots and. themes of stories submitted “too frequently” to Strange Horizons, an online magazine of “speculative fiction.” The document was compiled in order to provide guidance…

Chronicle of a War Foretold

by Charles Glass,

On the move with Ahmad Chalabi, the man who would be king

New Books

by Guy Davenport,

The frequency

by Paul Limbert Allman,

Solving the riddle of the Dan Rather beating