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Readings

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

Poetry in solitary

by Paul Ray Sheffield,

Peddling purity

by Abbot Mead Vickers,

Ear culture

by Hugh Kenner,

The course of laughter and forgetting

by Harper’s Staff,

Casting presidents

by Jon Wiener,

Chemical peels and nasal saws

by Harper’s Staff,

Count Dracula makes an offer

by Rainer Rene Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden,Translated by Elliott Rabin,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

To Be Black, in ‘Vogue’

by Spike Lee,

Rockmath

by David M. Abramson,

Don’t ax the mayor

by Ed Koch,

Readings

by Robert Rattner, David C. Ring,

Call me the hunter

by Teresa L. Gibbs, Ted Nugent,

Beware the exploding falafel

by Samuel R. President,

Readings

Drawn by John Callahan,

Six (more) crises

by Richard M. (Richard Milhous) Nixon,

The sex life

by David Cale,

Bucolic

Art by Rhonda Zwillinger,

To die for one’s country is glorious

by Danilo Kis,Translated by Michael Henry Heim,

A writer’s journal

by Edward Hoagland,

Beetlemania

Translated by Raymond Rosenthal,

Love bytes

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Lump it, lady

by Michiko Fukazawa,

Distant neighbors

by Dan Higgins,

Notes on your Central Europe–and mine

Putting a lid on the PLO

by Harper’s Staff,

A valentine for Ron

by John S. Herrington,

A Gag on Nuclear Workers

by Harper’s Staff,

Bush’s Lips

by Stan Lee,

A historical note

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