Harper's Magazine: September 1999

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September 1999

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	Photography [Cover art] By Laszlo Stern (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Alphabet PDF IMAGES
8-13	Letters/Department Letters On Death squad diary, from June 1999: Letter By Susan J. Murphy Letter By Barbara Bocek On Who needs men? Addressing the prospect of a matrilinear millennium, from June 1999: Letter By Robert Bly Letter By Nancy L. Locklin Letter By Jennifer Parsons Letter By Paul Geisert Letter By Cathy M. Sidlowski Letter By Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Letter By Eric Iannelli Letter By Lucia Perri Letter By Elizabeth Fekete Letter By O. Von Huten Letter By Jean Linton On Fowl trouble, from August 1999: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
15-17	Notebook/Article Shadowboxing By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Paranoia; Privacy; Scandals; Secrecy PDF IMAGES
19	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: AIDS; Agriculture; Animals; Clinton, Bill; Great Britain; Business; California; China; Crime; Cuba; Death; Democracy; Drugs; EastTimor; Education; Family; Fiji; Firearms; Florida; Bush, George W. (George Walker); Clinton, Hillary; India; Iowa; Justice; Massachusetts; Medicine; Music; New York City; Gingrich, Newt; Hatch, Orrin; U.S. Department of Defense; Propaganda; Science; Scotland; Shopping; Sierra Leone; South Africa; Sport; Taiwan; Television; Texas; Transportation; Washington, D.C.; Wyoming PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
21-24	Readings/Article Why Johnny can't fail By Jerry Jesness SEE ALSO: Grading and marking (Students); Standards; Teaching PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article What oft was thought SEE ALSO: Haiku, American; Interviews; Lizards; Hass, Robert PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photography Densified oil drums #4 By Edward Burtynsky (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Drums (Containers) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Tiny, tiny, tiny whips of leather SEE ALSO: Curricula; Pornography PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Art/illustration Culture wars By Ron English SEE ALSO: Culture conflict; Picasso, Pablo PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Great books for dummies SEE ALSO: Huxley, Aldous; Brave new world (Book); English literature; Steinbeck, John; Stories, plots, etc.; The pearl (Book) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Review Movie most foul SEE ALSO: Christianity; Motion pictures; Motion pictures and children; South Park: bigger, longer and uncut (Motion picture : 1999) PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Umpire, strike back SEE ALSO: Assault and battery; Crimes against; Sports personnel PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The troubles I've seen By John Weir SEE ALSO: Irish Republican Army; Northern Ireland; Paramilitary forces; Police misconduct; Political violence; Terrorism PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Poetry The nail By C.K. (Charles Kenneth) Williams PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Article Tune in, turn on, rat out By Timothy Leary SEE ALSO: Hippies; Imprisonment, 1974; Informers; Timothy Leary PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Art/illustration Stereotypeface By Paul Chan SEE ALSO: Police brutality; Racism PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Art/illustration Young life By Bo Bartlett SEE ALSO: Couples; Deer; Hunters; Trucks PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Solitary vices SEE ALSO: Prison discipline; Solitary confinement PDF IMAGES
36-40	Readings/Article Keeping time By Edward W. Said SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Said, Edward W.; Identity (Psychology); Sleep disorders; Time management PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article Eggs a la Nabocoque By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov SEE ALSO: Cookery (Eggs); Recipes PDF IMAGES
40-43	Readings/Fiction Sisters without mercy By Lynda Barry PDF IMAGES
42	Readings/Art/illustration Audrey By Jenny Scobel PDF IMAGES Readings/Art/illustration Oh Jackie By Jenny Scobel PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings By Jenny Scobel PDF IMAGES
45-60	Article How to peel a poem: Five poets dine out on verse By Charles Simic, Donald Hall, Cynthia Huntington, Paul Muldoon, and Heather McHugh SEE ALSO: American poetry; Appreciation; “During wind and rain” (Poem); English poetry; Pound, Ezra; O'Hara, Frank; MacNeice, Louis; “Music” (Poem); “The lake isle” (Poem); “The taxis” (Poem); Hardy, Thomas; “Traveling through the dark” (Poem); Stafford, William PDF TEXT IMAGES
61-74	Article A boy's life: For Matthew Shepard's killers, what does it take to pass as a man? By JoAnn Wypijewski SEE ALSO: McKinney, Aaron; Crimes against; Death and burial; Gay men; Hate crimes; Homophobia; Masculinity; Shepard, Matthew; Henderson, Russell; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Murder); Wyoming PDF IMAGES
76-84	Review I know why the caged bird cannot read: How American high school students learn to loathe literature By Francine Prose SEE ALSO: Alano, Becky; McGowen, Carolyn Smith; Harper Lee; I know why the caged bird sings (Book); Literature; Dodson, Margaret; Angelou, Maya; Teaching literature by women authors (Book); Teaching the novel (Book); Teaching values through teaching literature (Book); To kill a mockingbird (Book) PDF IMAGES
84-85	Review Thus spoke Jedediah: The distilled wisdom of a cornpone prophet By Roger D. Hodge SEE ALSO: For common things: irony, trust and commitment in America (Book); Irony; Purdy, Jedediah; Philosophy, American PDF IMAGES
86-90	Article The future of English By H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken PDF IMAGES
91-96	Fiction Watch the animals By Alice Elliott Dark PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Printer's devilry By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Article Beyond Columbine SEE ALSO: Maps; School violence PDF IMAGES