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Readings

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

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,

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,

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