Notebook
"The Boys Next Door" : Lewis H Lapham dismisses the CIA
Readings
"Letter to Jerzy Andrzejewski (1942)" by Czeslaw Milosz; letter from
Timothy McVeigh to Bruce Friedrich, the vegan campaign coordinator of PETA; a
memorandum delivered to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962
on Operation Mongoose; selected messages from www.hellomrpresident.com;
an excerpt from Truax,
a children's book by Terri Birkett modeled on Dr. Suess's Lorax
and funded by the Hardwood Forest Foundation and that National Oak Flooring
Manufacturers Association; excerpt from novel "Yonder Stands Your
Orphan"; an arrest affidavit; a series of short speeches by Texas State
Senators; an essay on the accordion.
Folio
short story "Revenge" by Steven Millhauser
Report
Dr. Daedalus: "A radical plastic surgeon wants to give you wings"
Annotation
How the oil tanker Condoleezza Rice lived up to its name
Miscellany
Now
Hear This: a visit to the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife Programs
& Cultural Studies.
Reviews
Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Trabel.
Map
"Cruel and Unusual Punishment" : Features of a Supermax Cellblock: A
Composite
