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Archive: 1989

Americana

by Mona Simpson,

Muck and Its Entanglements

by John Berger,

Cleaning the outhouse

A Nation of Certified Killers

by Joseph D. McNamara,

Federal gun registration neither protects nor deters

Mmm, mmm, simulacrum

by Frank Gannon,

Barbeque

Users, like me

by Gail Regier,

Membership in the Church of Drugs

Our frail planet in cold, clear view

by Barry Lopez,

The South Pole as global laboratory

The Cuyahoga Valley

by Robert Glenn Ketchum,

Harold and Louie

by Tony Parker,

Sculpting a Louisville Slugger

by Mike Bryan,

A foul off the handle

by Harper’s Staff,

Castro’s curveball

by J. David Truby,

In praise of lawns

by Harper’s Staff,

Wonder woman skit

by Raisa Fastman,

Great books and Gumbel

by Bryant Gumbel,

After oil

by Rick Bass,

Elevate or escalate?

by Jerry Herron,

Employee-owned franchise

Drawn by P.S. Mueller,

Obsession

by Harper’s Staff,

Grandpa Isaak

by Sergei Dovlatov,Translated by Anne Frydman,

When you visit Prague

Prostitution goes public

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

Art by Krzysztof Wodiczko,

Homeless chic

by Ruth La Ferla,

The cholesterol lobby fights back

by Louis B. Raffel,

Sense and etymology in settlers’ English

by Dan Quayle, William A. Llewellyn,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Just say no, Bill

by William Novak,

If only Ollie’d had one

by Gregg Shupe,

Sacred truth, novelistic truths

by Carlos Fuentes,

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by Harper’s Staff,

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