The American Reader

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Dear Readers,   It has been a joy to serve you for the past three years. Unfortunately, though sales and subscriptions have been robust, the magazine required a foundational investment to move forward into the future we were unable Continued This essay has been drawn from Vol. 1 No. 4 of the American Reader, available here. Our October 2012 interview with Veselka can be found here. ✖ In the November 2012 GQ I wrote an essay detailing some of my Continued This essay was drawn from the lost issue of the American Reader. “It’s amazing how people like judging.” —Michel Foucault In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, there was an immense showing of solidarity on the Internet. Journalists, activists, Continued This essay appears in Vol. 1 No. 1 of The American Reader (available here). ✖ J. Edgar Hoover’s “Charismatic Bureaucracy” Ellen Schrecker, liberalism’s semi-official chronicler of McCarthyism, hints that this dark episode of modern American history deserves a name change.  “Had observers Continued This novella has been drawn from Vol. 1 No. 5/6 of the American Reader, available here. ✖ season 1 “Payback”: Stabler and Benson investigate the murder and castration of a New York City cab driver. They discover that the victim Continued To mark the one-year anniversary of the Snowden leaks, the PEN Center has invited a number of journals to participate in a collaborative project on the theme of living in a surveillance society. For theAmerican Reader scontribution,AR editors Alyssa Loh,Uzoamaka Maduka, Continued In Robert Burton s mammoth 1621 The Anatomy of Melancholy, a meandering discourse on soul-sickness, Burton treats melancholy as a universal phenomenon, endemic to the human condition: “Kingdoms and provinces are melancholy, cities and families, all creatures, vegetable, sensible, and rational—that Continued Penguin Press HC •496pp. •$28.95 •17 September 2013 This review has been drawn from the Anniversary Issue of the American Reader, available in our Shoppe. If you came of age in the 1990s, as I did, you grew up reading Continued In the opening chapters of The Double, Dostoevsky’s 1846 novella of social anxiety, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin crashes his boss’s party. Walking nervously “through two rows of inquisitive and wondering spectators,”  “our hero” finds that Yes! every one in the room, Continued This poem has been drawn from Vol. 1 No. 5/6 of the American Reader. ✖ for Filip Marinovich 3/2011This seven-year-old yells well I’m gonna kill you at her friendafter a cold hosingin warm weather. I can’t stay­­in this apartment any Continued This story has been drawn from Vol. 1 No. 1 of The American Reader, available here.  My brother was the first man to come for me. The first man I saw in the raw, profuse with liquor, outside a brothel Continued This essay has been drawn from the Anniversary Issue of the American Reader, available in our Shoppe, as well as in independent booksellers and Barnes Nobles nationwide. ✖ Nothing in the public debate on schooling suggests that education matters. Continued   These Upworthy Titles Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity. But You Won’t Believe What Happens Next. Clickbait is bad. Clickbait is ruining journalism. Everyone knows this. Everyone hates the formulaic success that BuzzFeed has generated with endless listicles about Continued Selections from Dean Young s portfolio of seven new poems, appearing in Vol. 1 No. 1 of the American Reader, available here.  I Don’t Think We Can Still Be Friends So few fathom what I take in my tea Yet Continued A case must be made, every once in a while, for the necessity of distaste—or else criticism risks turning into yet another way of enjoying commodities. The way we encounter the relatively recent phenomenon of TED is a good example, Continued The American Reader is proud to feature ten emerging writers, whose work speaks not only to the variety but the vitality and inventiveness of contemporary American literature. Each of the writers answered a brief questionnaire explaining their background, work, and Continued In less propitious times, the poet X would have become a popular hack. As a function of the times, however, X has become a bad Expressionist. Consequently, his work causes intellectual short-circuiting.                                                    Continued Some Positive Thoughts on The Power of Positive Thought One time I was in therapy for being sad, and while I was there I learned about The Power of Positive Thought. I know this sounds like magic and/or fake and/or Continued We are pleased to introduce the curious and terrifying work of Szilárd Borbély to an American readership. The poems that follow have been drawn from two collections, The Sequences of Amor and Psyche and Berlin-Hamlet, and are translated from the Continued Why is poetry these days so hard to remember? In my twenties, I decided to try my hand at memorizing an entire poem—mostly because I seemed to constantly find myself stuck at some boring public event (panel, seminar, concert) where Continued 1 I am at the Paris Correctional Tribunal in the Boulevard du Palais, on the Île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine just across from Notre Dame. Today, October 17, 2013, is a big day. The convicted Continued What does a critic oppose, exactly, when she takes a stand “against world literature”? Emily Apter takes that polemic as the title of her latest book (Verso, 2013), but she uses it to advance a thesis that requires no argument Continued Dear Readers,   It has been a joy to serve you for the past three years. Unfortunately, though sales and subscriptions have been robust, the magazine required a foundational investment to move forward into the future we were unable Continued This essay was drawn from the lost issue of the American Reader. “It’s amazing how people like judging.” —Michel Foucault In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, there was an immense showing of solidarity on the Internet. Journalists, activists, Continued This essay will appear in Vol. 2, No. 3 of the American Reader, forthcoming later this month.  Everyone appropriates landscapes that are not their own. That’s what it means to exist in the shadow of late-stage capitalism—everything is up for grabs; every Continued This story will appear in Vol. 2, No. 3 of the American Reader. Jenny woke to Eli, their youngest, slapping his hand repeatedly down on her pillow; he did this with an air of full entitlement and a lack of Continued I.  After hours of wafting through the Whitney Biennial last spring, I was startled to find a piece on the top floor that grounded me: a dichromatic print divided in two called Regarding Venus (2012). The left half was all Continued Walker Percy here writes to fellow  Shelby Foote about the reception of his new novel, Love in the Ruins. A dystopian satire about a genius, lapsed-Catholic inventor and his lapsometer (a kind of stethoscope of the soul that can read a person s Continued This October, the American Reader is going (almost) all print. In celebration of this shift, the editors have put together an unranked list of twenty of our favorite stories, poems, plays and essays that have appeared in our print edition Continued This story has been drawn from Vol 2. No. 2 of the American Reader, available in Barnes and Nobles and in independent bookstores nationwide, as well as in our Shoppe. It will appear in the collection, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Continued This essay is the final installment of a three part series. The first installment, Dead or in Jail: Ferguson and the Bounty on Black Life, can be read here, and the second installment, Gaza, Ferguson, and the Perils of White Guilt, can be Continued “I must confess I have enjoyed nothing. I have been bored my entire life.”—Lawrence Durrell  Early last year I found myself standing inside Strand bookstore, an entire city block of new, vintage and rare books, and one of the major Continued

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