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“The Wild Woman and the Fashionable Coquette” by Charles Baudelaire

  From his collection of prose poetry, Paris Spleen (Le spleen de Paris):   “Really, my dear, you weary me beyond endurance and I have no pity for you; to hear you sighing one would think you were as...

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“The sicario: A Juárez hit man speaks” by Charles Bowden (Harpers)

I am ready for the story of all the dead men who last saw his face. As I drank coffee and tried to frame questions in my mind, a crime reporter in Juárez was cut down beside his eight-year-old daughter...

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“Did atheist philosopher see God when he ‘died’?” by William Cash

National Post March 3, 2001 “I haven’t told this to anybody before,” said Dr. Jeremy George, senior consultant in the Department of Thoracic Medicine at London University’s Middlesex Hospital. On the...

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“This is Water” by David Foster Wallace

Below is a transcription of the late David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address to the Graduating Class of Kenyon College – May 21, 2005 (If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I’d advise you to go...

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