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My Holy Land Vacation

By Tom Bissell,

i. stand with israelI listen to a lot of conservative talk radio. Confident masculine voices telling me the enemy is everywhere and victory is near — I often find it…

From a previously unpublished journal entry by Allen Ginsberg, dated February 18–19, 1965, and collected in The Essential Ginsberg, which will be published next month by Harper Perennial. In 1965, Ginsberg accepted…

“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”

By Benjamin Busch,

What makes Argia different from other cities is that it has earth instead of air. The streets are completely filled with dirt, clay packs the rooms to the ceiling .…

Nuclear Meltdown

From a report by the inspector general of the Air Force concerning allegations against Major General Michael J. Carey of professional misconduct during a trip to Russia last July. In…

Our Man in Jabberlon

From a September 12, 2012, post by The Mittani, a member of the Goonswarm alliance in the role-playing game Eve Online, on a website that provides news about the fictional…

The one in front of you

By Sallie Tisdale,

Thirty Days as a Cuban

By Patrick Symmes,

Straight Man’s Burden

By Jeff Sharlet,

A young man who called himself Blessed had agreed to meet me in front of the Speke Hotel, the oldest in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, but he was late, very late,…

A Supposedly Fun Thing

By Harper’s Staff,

Lonesome doves

By Harper’s Staff,

I was a Chinese internet addict

By McKenzie Funk,

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