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Readings

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

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by Bill Burke,

Readings

by Bill Burke,

Readings

by Bill Burke,

Readings

Drawn by Robert Haverluck,

Arab walls, reflecting change

by Anton Shammas,Translated by Yael Lotan,

“Who’s had who”

by Susan Bell, Helen Fielding,

Revising Lenin’s legacy

by Fedor Mikhaæilovich Burlaëtìskiæi,

Regan and the rug merchants

by Alan Furman,

Charting the U.S. economy

by Stephen J. (Stephen Jay) Rose,Art by Dennis Livingston,

Cutting it in kindergarten

by Keith Osborn,

One question

by Mark Salzman,

Readings

Drawn by Mark Alan Stamaty,

Praise Madison and pass the ammunition

by Harper’s Staff,

Gorbachev

by Jonathan Koziol,

The great counter-reformer

Weightless

Postcard folder from suburbia

Drawn by Roz Chast,

Readings

by Chikako Oyama,

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by Chikako Oyama,

Redneck secrets

by William Kittredge,

The gamecockers’ call to arms

by Buck Haws,

Ads for ourselves

by Jean Baudrillard,Translated by Barry Schwabsky,

My dinner with Imelda

by Richard Howard,

Readings

Art by Alfred Kantor,

Belfast: the Allure of the “Troubles”

by Sally Belfrage,

Drab shutters

by John Ashbery,

Arrest me

by Denis Hirson,

Readings

Drawn by Bill Plympton,

AIDS and eros

by Julia Kristeva,Translated by Leon Samuel Roudiez,

Mrs. American Homemaker

by Harper’s Staff,

“Let’s take love step-by-step”

by Harper’s Staff,

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