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By an anonymous teenager, excerpted from the January 1963 issue of Seventeen magazine. Craftsmanship shown by female letter writers is infinitely superior to that of males, and for a good…

A fountain pen, an empty page, and thou

by Lynda Barry, Julie Garwood, Mark Leyner,Edited by Jack Hitt,

Eros at sea

by Joel Agee,

Shipping out to see the world, but still seeing Sylvia

Foreign policy

by Harper’s Staff,

The grass-roots approach

Is there a doctrine in the house?

by Aryeh Neier,Edited by Jack Hitt,

The book thief

by Philip Weiss,

A true tale of bibliomania

Choice academic pork

by Benjamin DeMott,

Inside the leadership-studies racket

Adieu, Big Bird

by Lewis H. Lapham,

On the terminal irrelevance of public television

Can an ape tell a joke? Learning from a Las Vegas orangutan act

by Vicki Hearne,

Tales from the Cutting-Room Floor

by Debra Seagal,

The reality of “reality-based” television

The song-and-dance remains the same

by David Segal,

Selling Congress planes we don't need to fight enemies we don't have

America skips school

by Benjamin R. Barber,

Why we talk so much about education and do so little

Faulty diagnosis

by Willard Gaylin,

Why Clinton's health-care plan won't cure what ails us

Going to see the dragon

by Paul Theroux,

A journey through south China, land of capitalist miracles, where yesterday's rice paddy becomes tomorrow's metropolis, and a thousand factories bloom

Deep Clean

by Ed Zuckerman,

In Los Angeles, car washing gets beneath the surface

The Question Bush Never Got Asked

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Did he, as a Navy pilot, strafe a lifeboat?

A twelfth-century affair

by Peter Abelard,

New rules about sex on campus

by William Kerrigan,Edited by Jack Hitt,

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The bear in the Caucasus

The lame-duck state

Making a killing

Cybercad

How to write an erotic love letter

How to Correspond with a Boy