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Readings

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

Zapatos

by Filéncio Salmón,Translated by T. C. Boyle,

At least we spelled your name right

by Harper’s Staff,

Politics and the character factor

by Nicholas Xenos,

How do you feel about women’s centers?

by Harper’s Staff,

The geography of political volatility

by Ellen R. White,

The magician Baron Lavelle in his home theater (1962)

by Stern J. Bramson,

From “Peace Shield Meditation/Prayer Campaign: Spiritual Defense Initiative,” a brochure distributed by the Pentagon Meditation Club. About two hundred Defense Department employees have participated in Friday lunchtime meditation sessions at…

The geography of one-party rule

by Rodger Doyle,

Insider nukespeak

by Steven Kull,

Spotting spooks

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

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

A grove of birches

Ruminant

Quabbin

Cow project

President Makers

Zapatos

Miss Manners goes to Seoul

At least we spelled your name right

Politics and the character factor

How do you feel about women’s centers?

Sing along with Rehnquist

Readings

Contempt in court

The geography of political volatility

Great books and bayonets

A Jew’s grief

Inheritance

Against PCs

Through a Glass, Cleanly

Theology

The magician Baron Lavelle in his home theater (1962)

Dialectical materialism

The ugly tourist

Punk Nicaragua

Readings

Seoul with Gas

Be All That You Can Be

The geography of one-party rule

Insider nukespeak

Spotting spooks

Debug

Readings

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

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A grove of birches

Ruminant

Quabbin

Cow project

President Makers

Zapatos

Miss Manners goes to Seoul

At least we spelled your name right

Politics and the character factor

How do you feel about women’s centers?

Sing along with Rehnquist

Readings

Contempt in court

The geography of political volatility

Great books and bayonets

A Jew’s grief

Inheritance

Against PCs

Through a Glass, Cleanly

Theology

The magician Baron Lavelle in his home theater (1962)

Dialectical materialism

The ugly tourist

Punk Nicaragua

Readings

Seoul with Gas

Be All That You Can Be

The geography of one-party rule

Insider nukespeak

Spotting spooks

October 1988

Debug