Harper's Magazine: August 1985

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August 1985

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	Illustration Fan Garden and Spruce, Late Afternoon By Nell Blaine SEE ALSO: Flowers; Gardens PDF IMAGES
6-77	Letters/Department Letters On Advertising as agitprop, from January 1985: Letter By David B. Zoellner On Monkeys and Shakespeare, from February 1985: Letter By Marc G. Schramm On What are the consequences of Vietnam?, from April 1985: Letter By Lough O'Daly PDF IMAGES
9-10	Notebook/Article Glass houses By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career in Soviet espionage; Espionage, Soviet; Government information; Walker, John Anthony; Spies PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article Atrocity and imagination By Leslie Epstein SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Imagination (Philosophy); National socialism and art PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Map Readings SEE ALSO: Iran; Maps; Persian Gulf Region; Political and social views; Khomeini, Ruhollah; Territorial expansion PDF IMAGES
16-18	Readings/Article Guatemala: The price of protest By María del Rosario Godoy de Cuevas SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Disappeared persons; Family; Guatemala; del Rosario Godoy de Cuevas, María; State-sponsored terrorism PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Map The Reagan-Bush map of the Western Soviet Empire SEE ALSO: Communist countries; Maps; 1981-1989 PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Character studies By Julius Bengtsson SEE ALSO: Costume; Friends and associates; Bengtsson, Julius; Statesmen PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Judicial quiz By Orrin Hatch, Jeremiah Denton, and John P. East SEE ALSO: Career in law; Rodriguez, Joseph; Political and social views; Political questions and judicial power; Selection and appointment PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article The art of special pleading By James W. (James Wadsworth) Symington SEE ALSO: Amusements; Correspondence; Baker, James Addison; Sports; Taxation PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Readings By George Harrison SEE ALSO: Atomic bomb; Correspondence; Stimson, Henry Lewis; Nuclear weapons information; Testing PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Murderers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The future of reading By George Steiner SEE ALSO: Literacy PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Timbuktu on $44 a day SEE ALSO: Officials and employees PDF IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article Calvin Klein's obsession SEE ALSO: Career as model; Borain, Jose; Models (Persons) PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Fiction How to look at a naked bosom By Italo Calvino and William Weaver (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Sunday nocturne By August Kleinzahler PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article Bob & Ray By Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding SEE ALSO: Collectors and collecting; Hobbies PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Fiction On parking lots By Frederick Barthelme PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Gilbert & George PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Comedians; Islands PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction No one's a mystery By Elizabeth Tallent PDF IMAGES
29-32	Readings/Article Ode to 7-Eleven By Henry Rollins PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article Eye gouging in the backwoods By Elliott J. Gorn SEE ALSO: Hand-to-hand fighting PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Karal Ann Marling (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character); Folk art; Minnesota; Statues PDF IMAGES
35-44	Collection Will books survive? PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham, Howard Kaminsky, Jack Shoemaker, William P. Edwards, Hillel Stavis, Tom Peters, Philip M. Pfeffer, Elizabeth Sifton, and Phyllis Grann SEE ALSO: Booksellers and bookselling; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
39	Quotation On the principles of publishing By Honoré de Balzac and Herbert James Hunt (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
41	Article Balancing the books By Richard Curtis SEE ALSO: Prices; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article Cultivating the American garden: Toward a secular view of nature By Frederick W. Turner SEE ALSO: Effect of human beings on; Human ecology; Landscape; Nature; Philosophy of nature PDF IMAGES
53-59	Article Stalking the criminal mind: Psychopaths, 'moral imbeciles,' and free will By David Kelley SEE ALSO: Silberman, Charles E.; Criminal behavior; Criminal psychology; Criminal violence, criminal justice (Book); Criminology; Cressey, Donald Ray; Lewis, Dorothy Otnow; Sutherland, Edwin Hardin; Fatal vision (Book); Free will and determinism; Genetic aspects; Cleckley, Hervey M. (Hervey Milton); Inside the criminal mind (Book); McGinniss, Joe; Konner, Melvin; Yochelson, Samuel; Samenow, Stanton E.; The criminal personality (Book); The tangled wing (Book); Vulnerabilities to delinquency (Book) PDF IMAGES
60-61	Article The list of lists: What's black and white and read and golden? By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Booksellers and bookselling; New York times PDF IMAGES
62-63	Article The fate of the survivor: Hiroshima and the fire that time By Robert Karl Manoff SEE ALSO: Takahashi, Akihiro; Atomic bomb; Atomic bomb victims; Bombardment, 1945; Health; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Physiological effect PDF IMAGES
64-67	Fiction Zero dB By Madison Smartt Bell PDF IMAGES
68-69	Article A shaggy duck story: Burgled but not alarmed By Charles Simmons SEE ALSO: Burglary; Burglary protection; Farmhouses; Long Island; Long Island (New York) PDF IMAGES
70	Double acrostic/Department No. 32 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Biased opinion II By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES