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Archive: 1979

15, rue du Sommerard

by DeWitt Beall,

Crocus

by Joan Murray,

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Cleveland without tears

by Ann Bayer,

Remembering the Mistake on the Lake

Yes, We Can Stand All These Nobel Prizes, Comets, Universes, Epics, They Keep Coming Our Way

by John Tagliabue,

Thirty childbirths

by Millen Brand,

An eye for an eye

by Earl Shorris,

Reflections on equality

Zimmer’s last gig

by Paul Zimmer,

This ego in the wilderness

by Geof Hewitt,

Invitation to a Hanging

by Simon Winchester,

An encounter with Islamic justice

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

Biological imperative

by Jeffrey Burke,

Writing about science for laymen

Victims of Yalta

by Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik,

The fatal repatriation of Russian soldiers

Impetus and invention

by Hayden Carruth,

Poetic tradition and the individual talent

Goodness incarnate

by Terrence Des Pres,

Sheltering Jews in Vichy France

In our time

by Harper’s Staff,

The national pastime

by Tom Wolfe,

The mistresses of Singer

by Tova Reich,

A fantasy

Other things being equal

by Harper’s Staff,

Eyes only

by David Suter,

Women in a Roman courtyard

by Nancy Hallinan,

A short story

Lewis Carroll’s letters to little girls

by Lewis Carroll,

Dr. Kissinger goes to war

by William Shawcross,

Dr. Kissinger goes to war

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Harper’s Staff,

Killing Jamaica with kindness

by T.D. Allman,

An island between the devil and the deep blue sea

Arms bazaar

SALT was never intended to disarm

Childhood’s end

by Scott Spencer,

A hopeless future inclines the young toward death

Program notes

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The early afternoon of the gods

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

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