Harper's Magazine: 1979

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1979

January	Selected Articles Annual report: Letter to the readers By Lewis H. Lapham The sinking ark: Protecting God's creatures two by two By William Tucker Poetry No country for the young By Eugene J. McCarthy Mouse By Eugene J. McCarthy
February	Selected Articles Spiritual obedience: The transcendental game of follow the leader By Peter Marin Lost horizon: Intimations of immortality in California By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Minutes of a village meeting By Beñat LeCagot To the Campanile: A short story By Ella Leffland Poetry Going West By David R. Slavitt Going home By Linda Mizejewski
March	Selected Articles Fiction Race relations: A short story By Joseph Epstein Poetry The training bra By David Ray The cenote at Chichen Itza By David Ray
April	Selected Articles The mandate of heaven: Further remarks on the heirs to the American fortune By Lewis H. Lapham For capital punishment: The morality of anger By Walter Berns Fiction Origami aeroplane: A short story By Lowell B. Komie Poetry Bullhead By John Engels Conch By Amy Boesky
May	Selected Articles An eye for an eye: Reflections on equality By Earl Shorris Cleveland without tears: Remembering the Mistake on the Lake By Ann Bayer Fiction Women in a Roman courtyard: A short story By Nancy Hallinan Poetry This ego in the wilderness By Geof Hewitt Zimmer's last gig By Paul Zimmer
June	Selected Articles Snake oil: On failing to go to the medicine show By David Sanford Winding up: Winter's child plays the summer game By Robert H. Zieger Fiction Willie and Wade By Donald Barthelme Poetry What Pig Clemons told my mother By David Huddle Bill Spraker's store, or the day Geronimo couldn't find the scoop By David Huddle
July	Selected Articles Living to be old: The first generation of full-timers By Ronald Blythe Jerry Brown: Nothing to everyone By T.D. Allman Fiction In the abyss: A short story By Gilbert Rogin
August	Selected Articles Hiding from the bomb—again: Civil defense is back By Ed Zuckerman Rooms without windows: The death of a mailman By Richard Selzer Fiction Weekend: A short story By Fay Weldon
September	Selected Articles The money vanishes: Certain matters relating to T. Bertram Lance and various financial institutions By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis Zahedi's affairs: The shah's receiving line in Washington By Nicholas Burnett Fiction Rendezvous with Margret or: Happy ending By Heinrich Böll Poetry There are things I tell to no one but to the poem By Galway Kinnell
October	Selected Articles Fooling with the budget: How Congress causes inflation By Tom Bethell Fiction Rags & bones: A short story By Nadine Gordimer Poetry Moonlight By Geof Hewitt Some of my dearest friends By Geof Hewitt
November	Selected Articles Seeing nature whole By John Fowles Pomp and civil engineering: Image advertising By Samuel C. Florman Fiction Storyteller: A short story By Lewis Nordan
December	Selected Articles Edward Kennedy and the romance of death: The making of a minotaur By Lewis H. Lapham Too few good men: The volunteer (mercenary) army By Seth Cropsey Fiction The stove man: A short story By John Bart Gerald Poetry Lucky By Hilda Morley The seaweed By Hilda Morley