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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…

Hot Air Balloon Wedding Ceremony, Taos, New Mexico

by Lucas Foglia,

Greetings

by Jon Cotner,

By Jon Cotner, from issue 5 of Gigantic magazine. Cotner is an artist and poet who teaches at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn. The following lines are spoken by participants in…

In Gabrovo

by Patrick Leigh Fermor,

By Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), from The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, to be published in March by New York Review Books. Edited by Colin Thubron…

Chicago Is the Future

by Thomas Frank,

It was in 1988 that I moved to the bedraggled neighborhood of Hyde Park in order to study American history at the University of Chicago. I left the city ten…

Jump Juan Crow

by Duncan Murrell,

A Southern family struggles to avoid deportation

Cocoa Buff

by Edward Montagu,

From a passage dated December 30, 1668, in the journal of Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich, discovered earlier this year by Kate Loveman and partially quoted in The Journal…

Showing a Little Leg

by Dan Keane,

A pilgrimage to Ellen Altfest’s body paintings

Voice in the Night

by Jennifer Percy,

From Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism, by Jennifer Percy, to be published in January by Scribner. The book is an account of the two summers Percy spent reporting on a…

Bartók’s Monster

by Jay Kirk,

Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania