Harper's Magazine: 1986

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1986

January	Selected Articles Even the bad guys wear white hats: Cowboys, ranchers, and the ruin of the West By Edward Abbey Noises off By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The symbol By Virginia Woolf Poetry Preparation By Czeslaw Milosz
February	Selected Articles Warming to the cold snow: The satisfactions of a New Hampshire winter By Donald Hall Brand names By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction It had wings By Allan Gurganus
March	Selected Articles The face of the city: Reading consciousness in its tics and wrinkles By William H. Gass Why Star Wars software won't work By David Lorge Parnas Fiction In the name of the good By Vasilii Semenovich Grossman Children of the wind By Primo Levi
April	Selected Articles Map of Israel, map of Palestine By Meron Benvenisti Fiction Joyce made easy By Gordon Lish No, no, and no By Julio Cortázar Poetry A personal history of the curveball By Jonathan Holden
May	Selected Articles The Star Wars swindle: Hawking nuclear snake oil By Fred Reed Is arms control really necessary? By Michael Eliot Howard Fiction Mistake By Russell Banks Poetry Humility By Fred Chappell
June	Selected Articles The diagnostic novel: On the uses of modern fiction By Walker Percy A pig for all seasons By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Love and the branch manager By Ikko Shimizu Dogs By Thomas McGuane
July	Selected Articles Mexico's American children By Richard Rodriguez Fiction Roses of Eden By Helen Jones Poetry Children: Fourth of July By Liz Rosenberg
August	Selected Articles Mitterrand and Duras on Reagan's America By François Mitterrand and Marguerite Duras Fiction A field guide to American poets By George P. Garrett Easy By Christopher Coe Poetry Northern summer By György Faludy
September	Selected Articles Dreams gone to rust. The Monongahela Valley mourns for steel By David Corn “Traditional values”: Left, right, and wrong By Christopher Lasch Fiction Bacon's man By Mario Vargas Llosa Story By Lydia Davis Poetry The ballad of English literature By Terry Eagleton
October	Selected Articles A drunkard's progress. AA and the sobering strength of myth By Elpenor In praise of illiteracy By Hans Magnus Enzensberger Fiction Anis del mono By Quim Monzó The real story By Pamela Painter Poetry Victims of the latest dance craze By Cornelius Eady
November	Selected Articles The military: A loose cannon? By John Kenneth Galbraith Fiction Blue ground By Carolyn See Dreams of distant lives By Lee K. Abbott Poetry Hymn By John Updike
December	Selected Articles Le Carré: The dishonorable spy By John Le Carré Black men and public space By Brent A. Staples Fiction Nebraska By Ron Hansen The art of cartography By J.S. Marcus