Arcade Publishing

ONE I look in the mirror and scare myself. My hair is stringy, my eyes are mapped by red lines, and my skin is the color of newspaper. But I just piss out my ninth or tenth or whatever cup of coffee it is, wash my hands, wash my face, comb my hair, and step back out to the smoke and...

Between 1901 and 1932, Germany won a third of all the Nobel Prizes for science. With Hitler's rise to power and the introduction of racial laws, starting with the exclusion of all Jews from state institutions, Jewish professors were forced to leave their jobs, which closed the door on Germany’s...

In his new novel, Peter Ustinov has chosen as his protagonists two of the most unusual characters of recent fiction. The Old Man is somewhat overweight and out of shape, wearing slightly tattered robes and sporting a pair of tennis shoes. Mr. Smith is small and dark, with a foul temper only...

1 "Morir por la patria es vivir" Fear of the future lessens the fear of death. ^^^ —Marguerite Yourcenar HE COMES FROM AN ISLAND that had wanted to build paradise. Thefire of aggression consumes herface. Her eyes are almost always moist, her mouth is imploring, like a bronze statue, her...