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Readings

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

Hope for the small farmer

Drawn by P.S. Mueller,

Nixon

by Sam Snead, George Mendoza,

The fairway tapes

Gorbachev’s next move

by Matthew Evangelista,

Call me entrepreneur

by Harper’s Staff,

I like Harper’s!

by Harper’s Staff,

Pet rocks

by Harper’s Staff,

The Tao of Marin County

by Harper’s Staff,

Jesus freak meets pothead

by Jack Reynolds,

Black-out time

by Harper’s Staff,

The whole town’s whining

Drawn by Peter Hannan,

Outside history

by Lawrence Weschler,

I am bigfoot

by Ron Carlson,

Philip Larkin, with books

by Christopher Barker,

Nebraska

by Ron Hansen,

Little manifesto

by Lori M. Carlson,

Muir on deer

by John Muir,

Readings

Drawn by Sidney Harris,

A woman and her dog

by Harper’s Staff,

Tammy Bakker

by Tammy Faye Bakker,

Maureen Reagan

by Betty Beale,

The Meaning of Chewing

by Daniel Martin Varisco,

Readings

Art by H.O. Peitgen, P.H. (Peter H.) Richter,

Getting high, getting hysterical

by Andrew Weil,

Pinochet and you

by Harper’s Staff,

Party politics

by Thomas Byrne Edsall,

Money changes everything

AIDS

by Martin E. Zweig, James McKeever,

The view from Wall Street

Black men and public space

by Brent A. Staples,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Military reform

by Harper’s Staff,

Le Carré: the Dishonorable Spy

by John le Carré,

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