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Obamandela

From a lecture delivered in January at the Gorée Institute, in Senegal. Breytenbach’s essay “Mandela’s Smile” appeared in the December 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine. First it was the voice. It…

Achievetrons

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Few men are so disinterested as to prefer to live in discomfort under a government which they hold to be right, rather than in comfort under one which they hold to be…

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark,

Caught in the Web, 1860. President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and unveiled a $275 billion plan to help some of the 6 million homeowners…

Sick in the Head

by Luke Mitchell,

Why America won't get the health-care system it needs

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…

Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth president of the United States.NY TimesIn his inaugural remarks, President Obama attributed many of the nation’s problems to a “collective failure…

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Obamandela

Achievetrons

Weekly Review

Sick in the Head

Wow, Fiction Works!

Briefly noted

The war on telephone poles

Tool time

A quibble

Untitled

Weekly Review

Debug