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Readings

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

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

D.C.’s “Scream”

by Harper’s Staff,

Collecting Ollie & Co.

Art by Paul Brancato, Salim Ibn Ya°qub,

Why I won’t go to Germany

by Cynthia Ozick,

Words for my daughter

by John Balaban,

Monogrammed landscapes

by Adrienne E. Morgan, Cherie Semans, James Jerome Parsons,

Lime-congealed salad

by Jimmy Carter,

A writer’s blocks

by John Updike,

Ultimate nudity

by E.J. Kahn,

What it be

by Harper’s Staff,

Pop culture, auto-canonized

by Jonathan Freedman,

Thorns

by Eugenia Rendón de Olazabal,

Experienced, qualified–and stupid

by Esther Vilar,Translated by Joel Agee,

In the spirit of Spiro

by John M. Snyder,

Gorby the Antichrist

by Robert W. Faid,

Advice for refuseniks

by Harper’s Staff,

Maggie gets even

Art by Peter Rix,

Bravo 20 bombing range near Fallon, Nevada, 1986

by Richard Misrach,

Are you cut out for the CIA?

by John Patrick Quirk,

Uranium, in moderation

by Harper’s Staff,

Where the people are nice and the trains run on time

by Geoffrey Atheling Wagner,

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