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Readings

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

A Presidential flubometer

by Louis A. (Louis August) Gottschalk, Regina L. Uliana, Ronda Gilbert,

Voice of the uprising

Translated by David Kuttab,

Shopping with the contras

by Robert W. Duemling,

Readings

Drawn by Tom Toles,

The President’s script

by Harper’s Staff,

Call me Moby

by Paul West,

Observing the observer

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt,Translated by Joel Agee,

But enough about you

by Gordon Lish,

Readings

Art by Arthur Tress,

There goes Zane

by Raymond H. Ring,

Meeting Zappa

by Nicolas Slonimsky,

Readings

by William Irvine,Art by Steven Guarnaccia,

Tangled up in Bob

by Bruce Springsteen,

The church of the secular humanist

by Harper’s Staff,

Warhol’s Mortal Legacy

by Arthur Coleman Danto,

Fans shed light on the game

by Scott Mutter,

Otherwise known as

by Harper’s Staff,

Idleness in South Africa

by J. M. Coetzee,

Haystack beefcake

by Harper’s Staff,

Sensitive men, unite!

by Harper’s Staff,

Interrogation made easy

by John E. Hess, Stephen D. Gladis,

Blue bloods, shotguns, and pickups

by Harper’s Staff,

Go stand by that wall

Translated by Willis Johnson,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Army float, Independence Day, Nebaj, QuichÃ©

by Jean-Marie Simon,

The specter of nationalism

by Conor Cruise O’Brien,

St. George’s, Granada, West Indies

by Mitch Epstein,

Ocean Beach, Connecticut

by Alfred Seiland,

Arabesque

by Anton Shammas,

The spurious trombone

by Harper’s Staff,

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