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The end of empire

by Pico Iyer,

Inside the revolving door of dreams

Down and out at the Hotel Providence

by Guy Lawson,

Scenes from a Bowery flophouse

This is Your Bill of Rights, on Drugs

by Graham Boyd, Jack Hitt,

How we the people became the enemy

Soldiers of great fortune

by Bob Shacochis,

Is America's military training warriors or humanitarians?

All systems go: mission poesy

Art by Thomas Woodruff,

5 rms, Love Canal vu

by Sarah Smith,

Rock Is Dead

by David Samuels,

Sex, drugs, and raw sewage at Woodstock 99

The sweet hereafter

by Paul Roberts,

Our craving for sugar starves the Everglades and fattens politicians

In defense of the book

by William H. Gass,

On the enduring pleasures of paper, type, page, and ink

[untitled]

Art by John Currin,

Tarnished gold

by Marc Herman,

At Walden Pond

by E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White,

Supply-side journalism

by Seth Ackerman,

An all-American prescription for German unemployment

Your Constitution Is Killing You

by Daniel Lazare,

A reconsideration of the right to bear arms

The kingdom of apples

by David Guterson,

Picking the fruit of immortality in Washington's laden orchards

[untitled]

Art by Barry Moser,

Beyond Columbine

by Harper’s Staff,

The future of English

by H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken,

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

[untitled]

Art by Jenny Scobel,

Untitled

by Michael Steele,

Fowl trouble

by Christopher D. Cook,

In the nation's poultry plants, brutality to worker as well as to bird

My countryside, then and now

by Malcolm Cowley,

A study in American evolution

Busted flush

by David Plotz,

South Carolina's video-poker operators run a political machine

Dispatches from a dead war

by Sebastian Junger,

On the island of Cyprus, a hateful peace emerges

Wheaties

by Shane DuBow,

Chasing the ripening harvest across America's Great Plains

Untitled

by Sarah Smith,

Brand you

by Thomas Frank,

Better selling through anthropology

What Hitler wants

by Leon Trotsky,

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The end of empire

Down and out at the Hotel Providence

This is Your Bill of Rights, on Drugs

Soldiers of great fortune

All systems go: mission poesy

5 rms, Love Canal vu

Rock Is Dead

The sweet hereafter

In defense of the book

[untitled]

Tarnished gold

At Walden Pond

Supply-side journalism

Your Constitution Is Killing You

The kingdom of apples

[untitled]

Beyond Columbine

The future of English

A Boy’s Life

How to peel a poem

[untitled]

Untitled

Fowl trouble

My countryside, then and now

Busted flush

Dispatches from a dead war

Wheaties

Untitled

Brand you

What Hitler wants

December 1999

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