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Readings

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

Shopping malls

by David Byrne,

Assembly lines

by David Byrne,

Skatezine review

by Harper’s Staff,

Mob wisdom

by Gennaro Anguilo, Robert A. Bertsche,

Readings

Drawn by Bill Plympton,

Schoolyard law

by David Mamet,

In re

by Nancy Capasso,

Capasso v. Capasso

Red Bait

by Dinesh D’Souza,

Apartheid

by William Minter,

Could things be worse?

Selling a line to Washington

by Harper’s Staff,

Kudos for condos

by Gary L. Ackerman,

Character in ’86

by Geoffrey Garin,

Driving made complicated

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

Drawn by P.S. Mueller,

In praise of illiteracy

by Michael Lipson,

First love

by T.R. Pearson,

British groups

by Neal Slavin,

Senior nurses, Norland Nursery Training College, Hungerford, Berkshire

by Neal Slavin,

Custodial staff, Stonehenge Ancient Monument, Amesbury, Wiltshire

by Neal Slavin,

Story

by Lydia Davis,

The ballad of English literature

by Terry Eagleton,

A visit from Dr. Bazelon

by Don DeLillo,

Bacon’s man

by Mario Vargas Llosa,Translated by Elena Brunet,

Sketchbook voices

Edited by Eric Fischl,

Tell me what fish do

Edited by David Greenberger,

AIDS stories

by John Weir,

Ten American shrines

by Jack Barth, Doug Kirby, Mike Wilkins,

My short career as an adman

by Clive James,

“The Tudors are nibbling”

by Harper’s Staff,

A mother’s plea

by Margaret Dolan,

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