Humor

On the Shoulders of Giants

by Héctor Alvarez Castillo, Translated by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,

From a February 2, 1985, interview with Jorge Luis Borges, by Argentine poet and essayist Héctor Alvarez Castillo, included in Camino a Babel, self-published by Alvarez Castillo last year. Translated…

Just blew it

by Harper’s Staff,

Heckuva job, Dog Eater

by Rakhat Aliyev, Translated by James Addison White,

The Ironic Cloud

by D. Graham Burnett, Jeff Dolven,

By D. Graham Burnett and Jeff Dolven, from “Irony in the National Defense.” Last winter, Lockheed Martin Corporation approached Princeton University with a request for research initiatives. In April, Burnett,…

Wow, Fiction Works!

by Colson Whitehead,

By Colson Whitehead, from “James Root on How to Read,” part of a talk delivered last July at the Tin House Writers Workshop, in Portland, Oregon. Sag Harbor, Whitehead’s fourth…

The times, they are a-changin’

by Harper’s Staff,

Recantorium

by Charles Bernstein,

The men he didn’t like

by Will Rogers,

Words into hype

by Chris Offutt,

God Does Play Dice

by Stephen Haliczer,

From cards used in the board game Vatican: Unlock the Secrets of How Men Become Pope, created by Stephen Haliczer, a professor at Northern Illinois University. The game, which purports…

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