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Archive: 1986

Signs in the supermarket

by Milton Glaser,

Intellectuals and power

Translated by Richard E. Allen,

Red Music

by Josef Skvorecky`,

Anbetung des Inhalts

Art by Jorg Immendorff,

A field guide to the Yakuza

by Harper’s Staff,

Play money

by Gregg Leslie,

Why Star Wars software won’t work

by David Lorge Parnas,

An exercise in tact

by Robert K. Dornan,

Star dances

Art by A.K. Dewdney,

Readings

Drawn by Ben Sargent,

Have you ever owed a bar bill?

by Harper’s Staff,

In the name of the good

by Vasilii Semenovich Grossman,

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Pictures at an exhibition

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Jan Staller,

Hearts & embraces

by E.R. Galli,

No. 38

by Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton,

Beware of the dog

by Vicki Hearne,

Thurber, Rex, and the making of a hero

What gets made in Congress

by Gregory A. Fossedal,

Disclosure and the secrets it keeps

Tanked

by Fred Reed,

Test-driving the Army’s M1

Warming to the cold snow

The satisfactions of a New Hampshire winter

The rudiments of teacher education

by Evelyn Waugh,

The schooling of America

by Harper’s Staff,

Charting state reforms

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Mark Danner, Walter Karp,

How not to fix the schools

by Harper’s Staff,

Return to sender

by Harper’s Staff,

It had wings

by Allan Gurganus,

Cupid’s disease

by Oliver Sacks,

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