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Archive: 1985

TV puritans

by George V. Higgins,

Who killed J.R.'s sex life?

The Temple of Boredom

by Lucy Sante,

Science fiction, no future

Before the hammer falls

by Samuel Pennington,

Prelude to an auction bid

Lost samurai

by Henry Scott-Stokes,

The withered soul of postwar Japan

by Jonathan Lieberson, Mervyn F. Silverman, Mathilde Krim, Ronald Bayer, Gerald H. Friedland, Gary B. MacDonald, Ann Giudici Fettner, Stephen J. Schultz, Allan M. Brandt, Mathew J. Shebar,

AIDS: what is to be done?

by Harper’s Staff,

Reaching for the Red Star Sky

by Denise Dixon,

Appalachian visions

Edited by Wendy Ewald,

On salvation by deeds

by Jorge Luis Borges,

I am Dolly Parton

by Denise Dixon,

On the road with Borges

by Jorge Luis Borges,

Ars magna

by Jorge Luis Borges,

Hotel Esja, Reykjavik

by Jorge Luis Borges,

Lives of the artists

by Harper’s Staff,

The dead as a living

by F. Crussi-Gonzalez,

The seance

by Sergei Dovlatov,Translated by Anne Frydman,

Capitalist realism

Art by Aleksandr Melamid,

JFK, Soviet hero

by Fedor Mikhaæilovich Burlaëtìskiæi,Translated by Arlo Schultz,

The Caribbean basin stomp

by George Starbuck,

With the “Contras”

by Dieter Eich, Carlos Rincón, Jose Aquiliano Sarmiento Martinez, Mauricio Sanchez Garcia,

Save the Contras

by Harper’s Staff,

Disinvestment nightmare

by Alan Paton,

Cookie mix, dry

by Harper’s Staff,

Computer-nerd heaven

Drawn by R. Crumb,

‘My truth’

Translated by Amy Wilentz,

Bokassa on Giscard

Archive: 1985

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TV puritans

The Temple of Boredom

Before the hammer falls

Lost samurai

Freedom and pestilence

The spreading contagion

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AIDS: what is to be done?

Reaching for the Red Star Sky

Appalachian visions

On salvation by deeds

I am Dolly Parton

On the road with Borges

Ars magna

Hotel Esja, Reykjavik

Lives of the artists

The dead as a living

The seance

Capitalist realism

JFK, Soviet hero

The Caribbean basin stomp

With the “Contras”

Save the Contras

Disinvestment nightmare

Cookie mix, dry

Computer-nerd heaven

‘My truth’

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Archive: 1985

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Untitled

No 1 across

No. 34

TV puritans

The Temple of Boredom

Before the hammer falls

Lost samurai

Freedom and pestilence

The spreading contagion

Untitled

AIDS: what is to be done?

Reaching for the Red Star Sky

Appalachian visions

On salvation by deeds

I am Dolly Parton

On the road with Borges

Ars magna

Hotel Esja, Reykjavik

Lives of the artists

The dead as a living

The seance

Capitalist realism

JFK, Soviet hero

The Caribbean basin stomp

With the “Contras”

Save the Contras

Disinvestment nightmare

Cookie mix, dry

Computer-nerd heaven

‘My truth’

November 1985

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