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Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

Sacred truth, novelistic truths

by Carlos Fuentes,

Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School near Goulding, Utah, 1985

by Skeet McAuley,

A tail

by Tseng-ch°I Wang,Translated by Howard Goldblatt,

Gorbachev’s crisis of faith (II)

Translated by Michael Davies,

Gorbachev’s crisis of faith (I)

The Supreme Court doing the difficult legal research on the abortion case

Drawn by Tom Toles,

From an Internal Revenue Service memorandum distributed to regional and assistant commissioners. date: January 4, 1989 subject: Taxpayers Taken Hostage in Terrorist Action The Service has had procedures for some…

With friends like these . . .

by Melana Brand,

Al likes it hot

by Ruth Chandler,

Salvadoran death threats

by Harper’s Staff,

A dialogue

My brother

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood,

Writing without conflict

by Ursula K. Le Guin,

The stuff of life

by Neil Winokur,

Fighting words

by Jane P. Tompkins,

It’s not only rock ‘n’ roll

by Harper’s Staff,

Proposal

by Raymond Carver,

Transposed Hamlet

by Kenneth Koch,

Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

Just say no, Bill

If only Ollie’d had one

Sacred truth, novelistic truths

Meet Bob Bussinger

Under this very mall

Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School near Goulding, Utah, 1985

Graphic Winces

A tail

Don’t need a weatherman?

Museology

To the border

The two Americas

The art of deskcaping

The future of work

War weave

Remembering AIDS

Gorbachev’s crisis of faith (II)

Gorbachev’s crisis of faith (I)

The Supreme Court doing the difficult legal research on the abortion case

A Tax Break for Hostages

With friends like these . . .

Al likes it hot

Salvadoran death threats

My brother

Writing without conflict

The stuff of life

Fighting words

It’s not only rock ‘n’ roll

Proposal

Transposed Hamlet

Debug

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Just say no, Bill

If only Ollie’d had one

Sacred truth, novelistic truths

Meet Bob Bussinger

Under this very mall

Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School near Goulding, Utah, 1985

Graphic Winces

A tail

Don’t need a weatherman?

Museology

To the border

The two Americas

The art of deskcaping

The future of work

War weave

Remembering AIDS

Gorbachev’s crisis of faith (II)

Gorbachev’s crisis of faith (I)

The Supreme Court doing the difficult legal research on the abortion case

A Tax Break for Hostages

With friends like these . . .

Al likes it hot

Salvadoran death threats

My brother

Writing without conflict

The stuff of life

Fighting words

It’s not only rock ‘n’ roll

Proposal

Transposed Hamlet

May 1989

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