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Archive: 1981

Writing by numbers

by Hugh Kenner,

Hemingway's letters

The White House redecorates

Drawn by David Suter,

The mind’s eye

by Harper’s Staff,

Runway

by Jim Shepard,

A story

An American fortune

by L. J. Davis, Bill Dolce, Steve Dolce,

The Hunts of Dallas

The public record

by Harper’s Staff,

The public record

by Harper’s Staff,

American complicated with integrity

by John Tagliabue,

Homage to Muriel

The rush for second place

by William Gaddis,

Missed victories in America

The pursuit of wholiness

by Shiva Naipaul,

Letter from San Francisco

Trading Poland for the Gulf

by Robert W. Tucker,

Order, not justice

Washington

by Harper’s Staff,

Feet of clay

by Harper’s Staff,

Celebrities of defeat

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

The Harper’s international travel planner 1981

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Bill Dolce, Steve Dolce,

Overlapplique

by E.R. Galli,

Aristotle’s garage

by Don Sharp,

A mechanic's metaphysics

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

In Duran’s corner

by Sally Helgesen,

The press takes a dive

Ordinary critics

by Benjamin DeMott,

Immanuel Kant and the Talking Heads

The TBR 500

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Selling space

The two thousand years’ war

by Walter Karp,

Thucydides in the cold war

Revisions

by Harper’s Staff,

Juvenalia et alia

by Jeffrey Burke,

The hope of satire

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

Emblems of adversity

by Terrence Des Pres,

Seamus Heaney

Dividends

by Earl Shorris,

Little man, what now?

For Mozart, from the beginning

by John Engels,

Water and power

by Page Stegner,

The Owens Valley water war

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