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Archive: 1987

Variations on a Yuletide theme

by E.R. Galli,

Gazing Into Bergdorf’s Window

by Peter Freundlich,

Reflections on the higher shopping

Imagine a day at the end of your life

by Ann Beattie,

Wishing It Was Just the Thought

by Theodore Friend,

The business of Christmas cards

Panama Fallen Among Thieves

by Guillermo Sánchez,

Of General Noriega and a country convulsed

Manufacturing the next president

by Lesley Stahl, Robert Beckel, Harrison Hickman, Raymond Strother,

About forty years ago, in a high-school English class, I learned that talking about literature, like talking about yourself, incurs some small dangers of self-revelation, even though literary talk is…

The dialectics of dissent

by Miklós Haraszti,

Royal Gorge, Colorado

by David Graham,

The Weathermen, twenty years on

by Peter Marin,

Why Prague?

by Harper’s Staff,

Foggy Bottom agit prop

by Johnathan Miller,

Losing control of our economy

by Michael Moffitt,

The zone of no salutes

by Kent A. Womack,

The geography of election news

by William C. Adams,

Standing up for the banana

by Robert M. Moore,

The black vote

by Harper’s Staff,

We deliver

Readings

Drawn by Edward McLachlan,

Hard sell

by T. C. Boyle,

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Spoils of war

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

Art by Seymour Chwast,

Jigsaw

by E.R. Galli,

No. 59

by Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton,

Archive: 1987

Variations on a Yuletide theme

No. 60

Gazing Into Bergdorf’s Window

Imagine a day at the end of your life

Wishing It Was Just the Thought

Panama Fallen Among Thieves

Manufacturing the next president

Miami to New York

Bret, like brainstorms

Readings

Fall’s end

Literary Talk

The dialectics of dissent

Royal Gorge, Colorado

The Weathermen, twenty years on

Why Prague?

Foggy Bottom agit prop

Losing control of our economy

The zone of no salutes

The geography of election news

Standing up for the banana

The black vote

Readings

Hard sell

Harper’s index

Spoils of war

Letters

Untitled

Jigsaw

No. 59

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Archive: 1987

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Variations on a Yuletide theme

No. 60

Gazing Into Bergdorf’s Window

Imagine a day at the end of your life

Wishing It Was Just the Thought

Panama Fallen Among Thieves

Manufacturing the next president

Miami to New York

Bret, like brainstorms

Readings

Fall’s end

Literary Talk

The dialectics of dissent

Royal Gorge, Colorado

The Weathermen, twenty years on

Why Prague?

Foggy Bottom agit prop

Losing control of our economy

The zone of no salutes

The geography of election news

Standing up for the banana

The black vote

Readings

Hard sell

Harper’s index

Spoils of war

Letters

Untitled

Jigsaw

No. 59

December 1987

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