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Archive: 1981

First time out

by Jeffrey Burke,

The perils of the fictional debut

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

International types

Drawn by David Suter,

The mind’s eye

by Harper’s Staff,

One summer night

by Michelangelo Antonioni,Translated by Lawrence Venuti,

I am a camera

Interior, the studio, morning light

by Jeremy Larner,

A story

A James Watt national park

Drawn by Steve Brodner,

Ars politica

by Harper’s Staff,

The islands of the blessed

Art by Michael Kidron, Ronald Segal,

Geography 105

by Harper’s Staff,

Shreds of evidence

by Cullen Murphy,

Science confronts the miraculous--the shroud of Turin

Journey’s end

by Paul Fussell,

Nirvana on five dollars a day

The Energy Crisis Is Over!

by William Tucker,

How we beat OPEC

The silence of the Jews

by Jacobo Timerman,

Israel's own anti-Semitism

Pomp and desperation

by T.D. Allman,

England's retreat from civility

Letter from abroad

by Harper’s Staff,

The compleat American

by Harper’s Staff,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Diametricode

by E.R. Galli,

Random harvest

by Don Sharp,

Reaping where thou hast not sown

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Blackboard art

by Frances Taliaferro,

The novel goes to school

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

The train to Kompong Sam

by Simon Winchester,

Seeing the world with Thomas Cook

Plato in Vermont

by Hugh Kenner,

The ideal tree, and how to count it

The art of moving pictures

by Bruno Bettelheim,

Man, Superman, and myth

Vacation reading safety tips

Drawn by David Suter,

The mind’s eye

by Harper’s Staff,

Beastly debates

by Robert Silverberg,

The dialectic of science

Government income

Art by Michael Kidron, Ronald Segal,

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