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THE BATTLE THAT NEVER HAPPENED

By David M. Glantz
Copyright ©
Read by: Vi Benner
Length: 40 minutes

COUNTDOWN

John Adams and Peer Sellars creat an atomic opera.
By Alex Ross
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by: Alex Ross
Length: 68 minutes

CRIMSON TIDE

What is blushing? No one knows for sure, but it can ruin your life.
By Atul Gawande
Copyright © 2001 The New Yorker
Read by: David Zinn
Length: 33 minutes

PURSUING HAPPINESS

Two scholars explore the fragility of contentment.
By John Lanchester
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Read by: Vi Benner
Length: 19 minutes

THE DEPOSITION

By Tobias Wolff
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Read by: Bob Starring
Length: 24 minutes

MILLION-DOLLAR MURRAY

Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage.
by Malcolm Gladwell
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Read by Katie Walter

BIG RIVER

In eighteenth-century Brooklyn, a girl has a dream.
by Joan Acocella
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Read by Katie Walter

THE CHANNEL DASH

By Michael H. Coles
Copyright © Michael H. Coles
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 36 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

PATROLLING GUADALCANAL

By William H. Whyte
Copyright © William H. Whyte
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 23 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

THE DAY THE HORNET SANK

By Alvin Kernan
Copyright © Alvin Kernan
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 17 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

IN DARWIN'S WAKE

The author travels to the Galapagos-a place he never wanted to be-and follows the footsteps of the nature writer he never wanted to read.
By David Denby
Copyright © 1997 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 57 minutes

THE RESIDENT PATIENT

By Arthur Conan Doyle
Copyright © Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by Ken Phufer
Length: 30 minutes

THE BEST LITTLE MOVIE STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD

By Kim Masters
Copyright © 2001 Esquire
Read by Matthew Phenix
Length: 16 minutes

ARTISTS MODEL

Zola was Cezanne's oldest friend-until he wrote a novel about him.
By Rachel Cohen
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 38 minutes

THE SECRET GOLDFISH

By David Means
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 29 minutes

EARTHS EYE

By Edward Hoagland
Copyright © Sierra
Read by Matthew Phenix
Length: 14 minutes

ON PLAYING PIANO

By Charles Rosen
Copyright © 1999 New York Review of Books
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 49 minutes

JUSTICE TO PISSARRO

By Dana Gordon
Copyright © 2005 Commentary
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 23 minutes

LORD OF THE FLIES

What one of the century's great unsung scientists has discovered about bugs, genes, and us.
By Jonathan Weiner
Copyright © 1999 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 34 minutes

GREAT FUGUE

Secrets of a Beethoven manuscript.
By Alex Ross
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Read by
Length: 12 minutes

HEAVEN AND NATURE

By Edward Hoagland
Copyright © Harper's Magazine
Read by G. Goldstern
Length: 32 minutes

THE AUTISM FIGHT

A family with autistic children found a treatment that seemed to help. They didn't know what they'd have to go through to get it.
By Susan Sheehan
Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker
Read by Marlene Bednarz
Length: 74 minutes

AMERICAN MASTER

How I.B. Singer translated himself into American literature.
By Jonathan Rosen
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Read by Ken Phefer
Length: 36 minutes

GREAT THINGS ARE UNDERWAY! PART I

By Robert A. Caro
Copyright © 1997
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 55 minutes

GREAT THINGS ARE UNDERWAY! PART II

By Robert A. Caro
Copyright © 1997
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 45 minutes

SENIORITY AND THE SOUTH PART I

By Robert Caro
Copyright © 1997
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 41 minutes

SENIORITY AND THE SOUTH PART II

By Robert Caro
Copyright © 1997
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 55 minutes

THE SYNTHETIC SUBLIME

By Cynthia Ozick
Copyright © 2000 The New Yorker
Read by Sara VonBonn
Length: 30 minutes

THE GENE HUNTERS

Cloning is on the origins of Alzheimer's disease.
By Sue Halpern
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Length: 56 minutes

WHAT TEACHERS WANT

The hazardous ritual of classroom gift-giving.
By Caitlin Flanagan
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Length: 16 minutes

STALKING THE BILLION-FOOTED BEAST

By Tom Wolfe
Copyright © 1988 Harper's Magazine
Read by Steve Easter
Length: 56 minutes

BATTLE LESSONS

What the generals don't know.
By Dan Baum
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by Ken Phifer
Length: 38 minutes

IVY DAY IN THE EMPTY ROOM

By James A. McPherson
Copyright © 1994 The Iowa Review
Read by Ken Phifer
Length: 39 minutes

LINCOLN'S GREAT DEPRESSION

Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life and if he were alive today his condition would be treated as a “character issue”-that is as a political liability.
By Joshua Wolf Shenk
Copyright © 2005 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 53 minutes

SAIL AWAY

Six days to New York on the Queen Mary 2.
By Simon Shama
Copyright ©2004 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 27 minutes

LITTLE FROGS IN A DITCH

By Tim Gautreaux
Copyright © `1996 Gentleman's Quarterly
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 33 minutes

NO ORDINARY TOME

Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin's much anticipated book about Abraham Lincoln marks he return to the arena after a devastating scandal.
By Thomas Mallon
Copyright © 2005 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 35 minutes

BLOOD SPORT

How foxhunting became the most divisive issue in England
By Jane Kramer
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by Steve Easter
Length: 45 minutes

THE WRATH OF KHAN

How A Q. Khan made Pakistan a nuclear power-and showed that the spread of atomic weapons can't be stopped.
By William Langewiesche
Copyright © 2005 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by Steve Easter
Length: 101 minutes

TEN MILES OF VENUS

By Judy Troy
Copyright © 1997 The New Yorker
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 11 minutes

WHAT HELEN KELLER SAW

The curse of Akkad.
By Cynthia Ozick
Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 36 minutes

DATING YOUR MOM

By Ian Frazier
Copyright © 1978
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 6 minutes

MELUNGEONS

By Chris Offutt
Copyright © 2002 Story
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 24 minutes

PROCTOR BEMIS: ELECTION EVE

By Evan Connell
Copyright © 2002 The Threepenny Review
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 22 minutes

THE GOOD JAILER

By David Sheff
Copyright © 2004 The New York Times
Read by Marlene Bednarz
Length: 21 minutes

PATH LIGHTS

By Tom Drury
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 28 minutes

THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK

By Alice Munro
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by: Bob Starring
Length: 80 minutes

THE PITCHER AND THE PLUTOCRAT

By P.G. Wodehouse
Copyright ©
Read by: Ken Phefer
Length: 26 minutes

THE CRIMINAL MASTERMIND IS CONFINED

By Peter Ho Davies
Copyright © 2004 Harper's Magazine
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 14 minutes

ADAMS

By George Saunders
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 11 minutes

CODE BREAKER

The life and death of Alan Turing.
By Jim Holt
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Read by: Vi Benner
Length: 29 minutes

THE THIRTY-ONE DAY PRESIDENCY

By Marty Jones
Copyright © 2006 American History
Read by: Steve Easter
Length: 31 minutes

THE CROOKED MAN

By Arthur Conan Doyle
Copyright © Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by Ken Phifer
Length: 33 minutes

From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes collection

BRAIN-CELL MEMORIES

By Spencer Nadler
Copyright © Harper's Magazine
Read by Steve Easter
Length: 28 minutes

THE ZOMBIE HUNTERS

On the trail of cyberextortionists.
by Evan Ratliff
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Read by Katie Walter

BARBOSSA

By Williamson Murray
Copyright © Williamson Murray
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 41 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

KING OF BATAAN

By Thaddeus Holt
Copyright © Thaddeus Holt
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 38 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

FUHRER III

By Janet Flanner
Copyright © 1936 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 21 minutes

COME RAIN OR COME SHINE

The bittersweet life of Harold Arlen.
By John Lahr
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by Matthew Phenix
Length: 31 minutes

ICE MEMORY

Does a glacier hold the secret of how civilization began-and how it may end?
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 34 minutes

THE PRICE OF VALOR

We train our soldiers to kill for us. Afterward, they're on their own.
By Dan Baum
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 41 minutes

THE USES OF DISASTER

Notes on bad weather and good government.
By Rebecca Solnit
Copyright © 2005 Harper's Magazine
Read by Sarah Van Bonn
Length: 24 minutes

THE MIDDLE EAST PREDICAMENT

By Dennis Ross
Copyright © 2005 Foreign Affairs
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 38 minutes

NOBODIES

Does slavery exist in America?
By John Bowe
Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 43 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

AFTER DUNKIRK

By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
Copyright ©
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 31 minutes

UNDAUNTED BY ODDS

By William Manchester
Copyright ©
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 55 minutes

THE POINT OF NO RETURN

First Pakistan's A.Q. Khan showed that any country could have mad a nuclear bomb. Then he showed-not once but three times-why the nuclear trade will never be shut down.
By William Langewiesche
Copyright © 2006 The Atlantic
Read by
Length: 93 minutes

LIVING IN TONGUES

By Luc Sante
Copyright © The New York Times Magazine
Read by Dalynn Park
Length: 21 minutes

UNCLE BEN

Americans cannot seem to get enough of Benjamin Franklin.
By Gordon S. Wood
Copyright © 2003 The New York Review of Books
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 26 minutes

ANIMAL ACTION

The movie-star treatment for nonhumans.
By Susan Orlean
Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker
Read by David Zinn
Length: 22 minutes

THE ART OF THE NAP

By Joseph Epstein
Copyright © The Atlantic Monthly
Read by David Zinn
Length: 41 minutes

A COMET'S TALE

On the science of Apocalypse
By Tom Bissell
Copyright © 2002 Harper's Magazine
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 74 minutes

FATHER DAUGHTER

By Jim Harrison
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 24 minutes

NEW LIFE FOR CARS

Part mechanic, part artist, part detective, Paul Russell restores antique automobiles to their original condition-once he has determined what that was.
By David C. Holzman
Copyright © 2000 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by Mathew Phenix
Length: 15 minutes

MARITO IN CITTA

By John Cheever
Copyright © 1964
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 32 minutes

HOW OLD HOW YOUNG

By John O'Hara
Copyright © 1967
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 20 minutes

FROM THE LEASH TO THE LABORATORY

Medical-research institutions draw on a thriving black market in stolen and fraudulently obtained pets.
By Judith Reitman
Copyright © 2000 The Atlantic Montlhy
Read by Dalynn Park
Length: 26 minutes

FILM AND TV IN ANXIOUS TIMES

By Thomas S. Hibbs
Copyright © 2004 The New Atlantis
Read by Dalynn Park
Length: 49 minutes

THE DESKS OF THE SENATE I

By Robert A. Caro
Copyright © 2002
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 90 minutes

THE DESKS OF THE SENATE II

By Robert A. Caro
Copyright © 2002
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 73 minutes

RED-HOT MOMA

The Museum of Modern Art New York
By Charles Rosen Henri Zerner
Copyright © 2005 The New York Review of Books
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 34 minutes

THE SOUL SINGER

A mezzo with the most potent voice since Callas.
By Charles Michener
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Read by V. Benner
Length: 34 minutes

NEMESIS

First published in Super Science Stories March 1950 as 'Exile of the Eons.'
By Arthur C. Clarke
Copyright © 1950
Read by Ken Phifer
Length: 37 minutes

LOGIC DNA AND POETRY

By Steve Talbott
Copyright © 2005 The New Atlantis
Read by Ken Phifer
Length: 34 minutes

COAL TRAIN - I

Disassembling the planet for Powder River coal.
By John McPhee
copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
read by David Henry

COAL TRAIN - II

Going into Thunder.
By John McPhee
copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
read by David Henry

THE CLIMATE OF MAN I

Disappearing islands thawing permafrost melting polar ice. How the earth is changing.
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 74 minutes

THE CLIMATE OF MAN II

The curse of Akkad.
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 45 minutes

CLIMATE OF MAN III

By Elizabeth Kolbert
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 60 minutes

FUGUE

By Lillian Ross
Copyright © 1963
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 14 minutes

THE DARK STAGE

By David Plante
Copyright ©1997
Read by Pamela Lewis
Length: 13 minutes

THE MURROW DOCTRINE

Why the life and times of the broadcast pioneer still matter.
By Nicholas Lemann
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Read by: Gregory Garretson
Length: 30 minutes

LEASING THE RAIN

By William Finnegan
Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Vi Benner
Length: 43 minutes

THE GREEN FIELDS OF THE MIND

By Bartlett Giamatti
Copyright ©
Read by: Ken Phefer
Length: 10 minutes

ANDY

For E.B. White's readers and family, a sense of trust came easily.
By Roger Angell
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by: Bob Starring
Length: 48 minutes
SECURITY CHECK
Collected in Tales fom the White Hart
By Arthur C. Clarke
Copyright © 1957 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Read by: Ken Phefer
Length: 9 minutes

THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEENS OF PEARL HARBOR

By Eliot A. Cohen
Copyright © Eliot A. Cohen
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 10 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

TOKYO DECEMBER 8, 1941

By Theodore F. Cook Jr.
Copyright © Theodore F. Cook Jr.
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 30 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

THE OTHER PEARL HARBOR

By D. Clayton James
Copyright © D. Clayton James
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 25 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

EIGHT ARMY EYEWITNESS TO EL ALAMEIN

By George Greenfield
Copyright ©
Read by Vi Benner
Length: 37 minutes

From the No End Save Victory collection

LULU QUEEN OF THE CAMELS

In its loopy way the dromedary camel is already perfect but in recent years biologists have been competing to refine it.
By Cullen Murphy
Copyright © 1999 The Atlantic Monthly
Length: 39 minutes

THE MUTABLE BRAIN

Score one for believers in the adage “Use it or lose it.” Targeted mental and physical exercises seem to improve the brain in unexpected ways.
By Marguerite Holloway
Copyright © 2003 Scientific American
Read by Steve Easter
Length: 28 minutes

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING

By James A McPherson
Copyright © 2005 Witness
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 26 minutes

KING COLE

The not so merry soul of Cole Porter.
By John Lahr
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Read by Robert Starring
Length: 20 minutes

THE SILVER THIEF

For one obsessive burglar only sterling will do.
By Stephan J. Dubner
Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker
Read by David Henry
Length: 59 minutes

CONFIDENCE MAN

By David Samuels
Copyright © 1999
Length: 53 minutes

CLIMBING THE REDWOODS

A scientist explores a lost world over Northern California.
By Richard Preston
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Read by David Henry
Length: 74 Minutes