Harper's Magazine: February 1990

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February 1990

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration Le cueur d'amours espris By King of Naples and Jerusalem René I PDF IMAGES
4-13	Letters/Department Letters On The senate, from January 1990: Note/correction On Stalking the billion-footed beast, from November 1989: Letter By Philip Roth Letter By Walker Percy Letter By Scott Spencer Letter By Alison Lurie Letter By Madison Smartt Bell Letter By Mary Gordon Letter By Jim Harrison Letter By T. Coraghessan Boyle Letter By John Hawkes PDF IMAGES
14-15	Notebook/Article Wind from the East By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Yoshikawa, Eiji; Foreign economic relations; Foreign public opinion; Foreign public opinion, American; Foreign public opinion, Japanese; Musashi (Book) PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article Language, lies, and Latin democracy By Eduardo H. Galeano SEE ALSO: Democracy; Latin America PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Cartoon Gift mugs for near-total strangers PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article A little neighborly advice SEE ALSO: City and town life; Des Moines; Iowa PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The last patriot SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Poindexter, John M. PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Any questions? SEE ALSO: Actresses; Career in acting; Interviewing in journalism; Redgrave, Vanessa PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Avoiding the Temple of Doom SEE ALSO: Parodies, imitations, etc.; Posters; Regulations PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo My mother posing for me By Larry Sultan (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Mothers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Reunion duds SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Class reunions; Princeton; Princeton University PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article How he earned his wings SEE ALSO: Animals; Homing pigeons; War use PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Buy fur! Save lives! SEE ALSO: Fur garments; Fur trade PDF IMAGES
28-33	Readings/Article Can Perestroika be salvaged? By Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Anthony Barnett, and Boris Kagarlitsky SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich; 1985-1991; Perestroika PDF IMAGES Readings/Article This just in SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Corrections; New York times (American newspaper); Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article A hand is a terrible thing to waste SEE ALSO: Parliamentary practice; Rules and practice PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] SEE ALSO: Crime scenes PDF IMAGES
33-34	Readings/Fiction Promotion report By Hengchu Chen and Howard Goldblatt (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Communist parties; 1949-; Political fiction PDF IMAGES
34-36	Readings/Article The stones of Jerusalem By Zvi Jagendorf SEE ALSO: Brecht, Bertolt; Jerusalem; The exception and the rule (Book) PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Cartoon Automatic psychoanalysis SEE ALSO: Psychoanalysis PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article The writer's reader SEE ALSO: Burgess, Anthony; Authors and readers; Welty, Eudora; Donleavy, J.P. (James Patrick); Cocteau, Jean; Steinbeck, John; Updike, John; Drabble, Margaret; Miscellanea; Gass, William PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Article A uniform to die for By Tory Hirshfield, Shannon Whitaker-Burke, Maggie Heller, and Jennifer Kim SEE ALSO: Uniforms PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A woman's work By Marguerite Duras and Barbara Bray (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Housewives PDF IMAGES
42	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Henry Bowles (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Ireland, David; Homes and haunts—California—San Francisco—Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
43-44	Readings/Fiction Charity By Mark Richard SEE ALSO: Grotesque PDF IMAGES
45-51	Article What's the word for . . . ? By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: New words PDF IMAGES
53-60	Article The rehumanization of the heart: What doctors have forgotten, poets have always known By Charles Siebert SEE ALSO: Diseases; Heart; Hypochondria; Mind and body; Psychosomatic aspects PDF IMAGES
61-65	Fiction The varieties of romantic experience By Robert Cohen SEE ALSO: College stories; Teacher-student relationships PDF IMAGES
70-78	Article Daniel, Doña Violeta, democracy: On the campaign trail in Nicaragua By Francisco Goldman SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Ortega, Daniel; Elections; 1990-; Nicaragua; Chamorro, Violeta PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 86 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Craftsmanship By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES