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The Absent Reader

by Eileen Myles,

From an essay that appeared in Spike Art Magazine in December. The thing I will say about being young is I hated it. I wasn’t anybody, I was broke, my…

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…

Unger v. Madison

by Harper’s Staff,

The highlighter crisis

by Lawrence A. Beyer,

III. How many computers have you got

by James Traub,

A reader

by Jorge Luis Borges,

Retarding Shakespeare

by Milton Allen Kaplan,

A college for one

by Philip Everett Curtiss,

The only use he knew

by Harper’s Staff,

Reading

by Edward Sandford Martin,

The five little pigs

Art by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott,

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