Harper's Magazine: 1996

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1996

January	Selected Articles Say it ain't so, Huck: Second thoughts on Mark Twain's “masterpiece” By Jane Smiley The middle-class backlash By Edward Luttwak Fiction You studio people By Eugene Stein
February	Selected Articles A kiss is still a kiss (even if the sex is postmodern and the romance problematic) By Edwin Dobb The war on the West By Rick Bass Fiction The drowned son By David Guterson
March	Selected Articles Vanishing knowledge By David Ehrenfeld The real Republican revolution By T.R. Goldman Fiction Louisiana By Padgett Powell PU-239 By Ken Kalfus Poetry Sparrows By William Kloefkorn
April	Selected Articles Perchance to dream: In the age of images, a reason to write novels By Jonathan Franzen Ma and Ba By Thi Diem Thuy Lê
May	Selected Articles Collecting the stuff of life By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Fiction A (very strange) day at the races By Salvador Dalí Shortcut By Stephen Dixon Poetry The foreman's wallet By Martin Espada A mistake was made By Stuart Ross
June	Selected Articles Oh, how happy we will be: Pills, paradise, and the profits of the drug companies By Greg Critser What's wrong with “rights” By Richard Rorty Fiction Sister Rose By Tom House Layle, halfway By Lee Durkee Poetry The barrenness of home By Francis Gallagher Chips By Francis Gallagher
July	Selected Articles Masters of the game: How the U.S. protects the traffic in cheap Mexican labor By Wade Graham An afternoon in Tel Aviv By Joseph M. Hochstein Fiction Remote feed By David Gilbert
August	Selected Articles Lights, camera, democracy! On the conventions of a make-believe republic By Lewis H. Lapham One tough lama By Chris Helm Fiction Sympathy for the despot By Muammar Qaddafi Nothing by comparison By Lisa Roney Poetry Coinages: A fairy tale By Albert Goldbarth
September	Selected Articles True west: Relocating the horizon of the American frontier By Richard Rodriguez Back to school By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Silicon Valley of the dolls By Michael S. (Michael Shawn) Malone The shape of water By Mark Slouka Poetry The good son By Kim Robert Stafford
October	Selected Articles Missing children: One couple's anguished attempt to conceive By Bob Shacochis Taking stock of what we have left By Barry Holstun Lopez Fiction A representative sublimates his anger By Neil Abercrombie 1913 By Albert Goldbarth
November	Selected Articles Wedded to an illusion: Do gays and lesbians really want the right to marry? By Fenton Johnson Painted fire By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Death by a salesman By Matthew Sharpe
December	Selected Articles An American yearning: Seeking cures for freedom's terrors By Peter Marin Hiding behind the ban By Arjun Makhijani and Hisham Zerriffi Fiction Baby By Eugène Savitzkaya Je reviens By Stuart Dybek Poetry Ross Perot's swan songs By Linda Grant De Pauw

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THE WRECKING CREW
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