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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,

A Fountain Pen, an Empty Page, and Thou

by Lynda Barry, Mark Leyner, V.K. McCarty, A. R. Gurney, Julie Garwood,Moderated By Jack Hitt,

February brings with it the romantic chance of Valentine’s Day, but who remembers how to write a love letter? The form was never an easy one, not even for poets,…

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by Harper’s Staff,

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Art by Kenji Kawakami,

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by Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher,

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,

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Death of a giant

Can separate be equal? New answers to an old question about race and schools

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On the examining table

Witness to another execution

The art of self

The electronic hive: two views

Truth Serum

Death News

The great San Diego fire sale

Fighting in the schoolyard

Arguing with the pope

Yellow in spectrum

The bear in the Caucasus

On Not Being a Victim

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The lame-duck state

Making a killing

Cybercad

How to write an erotic love letter

How to Correspond with a Boy

A fountain pen, an empty page, and thou

A Fountain Pen, an Empty Page, and Thou

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Eros at sea

Foreign policy

Is there a doctrine in the house?

June 1994

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