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Readings

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

Readings

Drawn by Mike Lane,

Panama

by Chicho Donato,Translated by Karen Hoffman,

What the stars foretell

[untitled]

by Jeffrey T. Brouws,

Panda bears

by Jeffrey T. Brouws,

Down the midway

by Jeffrey T. Brouws,

Love’s progress

by Michael Ignatieff,

In praise of degeneration

by Sidney Wade,

Computer botany

Art by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz,

The credible word

by John Berger,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Sneak

by Charlie Smith,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Uncle Miltie v. mass man

by Walter Karp,

The Bruce nun of Istanbul

by Sebla Tekli,

In Defense of “Da Butt”

by Spike Lee,

I sing of Norman P.

by Robert Stewart, Rebekah Presson Mosby,

Banking After the Big One

by Harper’s Staff,

From “Continuity of Business—Global Nuclear War,” a chapter in the 1988 Citicorp policy manual. The manual is distributed to all bank officers. In the event of a global nuclear war,…

Botha’s Bible–and mine

by Desmond Tutu,

Readings

Drawn by Bill Plympton,

Atlanta, Warts and All

by Harper’s Staff,

From the February 15 Chamber Report, published by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. This list of story ideas about Atlanta was developed by the chamber’s Convention Task Force as part…

How to talk to the PLO

by Harper’s Staff,

A Salvadoran’s plea

by María Teresa Tula,

Readings

by Margaret Bourke-White,

Toward something American

by Peter Marin,

The world in a few states

by Stuart Klipper,

Accommodations

by Richard Ford,

A bad day for the young composer

by Ernst Toch,

Serpent Mound, Ohio

by Suzanne Williamson,

[untitled]

by Andrea Modica,

Croton-on-Hudson, New York, 1987

by Andrea Modica,

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