Harper's Magazine: October 1989

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October 1989

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Horror PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On In deepest gringolandia, from July 1989: Letter By Louis E.V. Nevaer Letter By Richard Boucher Letter By Adrian Lajous Letter By Richard Fenske On Heartbreak motels, from August 1989: Letter By Patricia Stoll Letter By Richard Ford PDF IMAGES
8-12	Notebook/Article Walter Karp (1934-1989) By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Obituaries; Periodical editors; Political and social views; Karp, Walter PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-28	Readings/Article True confession? SEE ALSO: Clearwater; Confession (Law); Interrogation for murder, 1986; Investigation; Murder; Police questioning; Sawyer, Tom F. PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Gloria DeFilipps Brush (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Ladders; Windows PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Filet of food critic SEE ALSO: Errata; New York times (American newspaper); Restaurants PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article The art of the insult By Donald Trump SEE ALSO: Career as hotelkeeper; Correspondence; Trump, Donald; Hotelkeepers; Invective; Helmsley, Leona; Real estate developers PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Poem Howls By John W. Hart PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A brief history of the Reagan years By Paul Slansky SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president—Indexes; Indexes; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Sex, drugs, rock & roll By Robbie Conal SEE ALSO: Bush, George; Tower, John G.(John Goodwin); Atwater, Lee; Portraits PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Desecrating America (part II) By Richard Durbin SEE ALSO: Baseball bats PDF IMAGES Readings/Article De-Stalinizing the Soviet past By Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina Vanden Heuvel SEE ALSO: Glasnost; Historians; Historiography; Afanas'ev, IUrii Nikolaevich; Interviews PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article Baseball suicides SEE ALSO: Baseball players; Suicide victims PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article Bless this game SEE ALSO: Baseball for children; Prayers PDF IMAGES
38-42	Readings/Article Lives of the body By Sallie Tisdale SEE ALSO: Aging; Body, Human; Mind and body PDF IMAGES
40	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Parent and child; Piano; Urination PDF IMAGES
42	Readings/Fiction Dr. Ordinary By Padgett Powell PDF IMAGES
43	Readings/Photo On the wing By Kjell Bloch Sandved (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Alphabet; Butterflies; Protective coloration (Biology) PDF IMAGES
45-53	Article In pursuit of pure horror By Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Suzy McKee Charnas, and Gahan Wilson SEE ALSO: Poe, Edgar Allan; Film and video adaptations; Horror; Horror films; Horror tales, American PDF IMAGES
55-61	Fiction Jump By Nadine Gordimer PDF IMAGES
62-68	Article Never again? Cambodia: Still haunted by the Khmer Rouge By Alan Berlow SEE ALSO: Berlow, Alan; Cambodia; Civil War, 1970-1975; Journeys—Cambodia; 1975- PDF IMAGES
70-76	Capital letter/Article Contempt for the little colony: How Barry and Bush run Washington By Christopher Hitchens SEE ALSO: Capital and capitol; Career as mayor of Washington, D.C.; Barry, Marion; Mayors PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 82 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Biased opinion By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES