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Archive: 1999

Satchmo’s home remedy

by Louis Armstrong,

Eddie’s invite

Art by Fiona White,

Portrait of the artist

Art by Eric Fischl,

The Falun Gong show

by Harper’s Staff,

Writers afoot

by Edward Hoagland,

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Curtain calls

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

Art by Dugald Stermer,

Beyond Columbine

by Harper’s Staff,

Printer’s devilry

by Harper’s Staff,

Watch the animals

by Alice Elliott Dark,

The future of English

by H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken,

Thus spoke Jedediah

by Roger D. Hodge,

The distilled wisdom of a cornpone prophet

I know why the caged bird cannot read

by Francine Prose,

How American high school students learn to loathe literature

A Boy’s Life

by JoAnn Wypijewski,

For Matthew Shepard’s killers, what does it take to pass as a man?

How to peel a poem

by Cynthia Huntington, Heather McHugh, Paul Muldoon, Charles Simic,

Five poets dine out on verse

Audrey

Art by Jenny Scobel,

Oh Jackie

Art by Jenny Scobel,

[untitled]

Art by Jenny Scobel,

Sisters without mercy

by Lynda Barry,

Eggs a la Nabocoque

by Vladimir Nabokov,

Keeping time

by Edward W. Said,

Solitary vices

by Harper’s Staff,

Young life

Stereotypeface

Art by Paul Chan,

Tune in, turn on, rat out

by Timothy Leary,

The nail

by C.K. Williams,

Umpire, strike back

by Harper’s Staff,

The Troubles I’ve Seen

by John Weir,

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