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FAA: the Jeans Question

From memoranda issued by the Federal Aviation Administration establishing a dress code for its employees at the Los Angeles Air Traffic Control Center. The distinction made in the May 15…

The Right to Shop

by Harper’s Staff,

From a segment broadcast on radio station WOR in New York on September 15. announcer: Celebrating the bicentennial of the United States Constitution, this is A More Perfect Union: Prominent…

Sins of the father

by Peter Sichrovsky,Translated by Jean Steinberg,

About forty years ago, in a high-school English class, I learned that talking about literature, like talking about yourself, incurs some small dangers of self-revelation, even though literary talk is…

The dialectics of dissent

by Miklós Haraszti,

Royal Gorge, Colorado

by David Graham,

The Weathermen, twenty years on

by Peter Marin,

Why Prague?

by Harper’s Staff,

Foggy Bottom agit prop

by Johnathan Miller,

Losing control of our economy

by Michael Moffitt,

The zone of no salutes

by Kent A. Womack,

The geography of election news

by William C. Adams,

Standing up for the banana

by Robert M. Moore,

The black vote

by Harper’s Staff,

We deliver

Readings

Drawn by Edward McLachlan,

Hard sell

by T. C. Boyle,

Toussaint

by Ronald F. Turner,

Short stories

by Daniel Boulanger,Translated by Penny Million Pucelik, Marijo Despréaux Schneider,

Weapons of pessimists

Prophecy

Beijing’s popcorn entrepreneur

by W.J.F. (William John Francis) Jenner, Zhang Xinxin, Sang Ye,Edited by Delia Davin,

Readings

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

Big business takes the first

FAA: the Jeans Question

Wages of depression

UK school report

The Right to Shop

The joy of working

The bishop orders his tomb

Readings

Sins of the father

Miami to New York

Bret, like brainstorms

Readings

Fall’s end

Literary Talk

The dialectics of dissent

Royal Gorge, Colorado

The Weathermen, twenty years on

Why Prague?

Foggy Bottom agit prop

Losing control of our economy

The zone of no salutes

The geography of election news

Standing up for the banana

The black vote

Readings

Hard sell

Toussaint

Short stories

Prophecy

Beijing’s popcorn entrepreneur

Debug

Readings

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

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Big business takes the first

FAA: the Jeans Question

Wages of depression

UK school report

The Right to Shop

The joy of working

The bishop orders his tomb

Readings

Sins of the father

Miami to New York

Bret, like brainstorms

Readings

Fall’s end

Literary Talk

The dialectics of dissent

Royal Gorge, Colorado

The Weathermen, twenty years on

Why Prague?

Foggy Bottom agit prop

Losing control of our economy

The zone of no salutes

The geography of election news

Standing up for the banana

The black vote

Readings

Hard sell

Toussaint

Short stories

Prophecy

Beijing’s popcorn entrepreneur

January 1988

Debug