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Readings

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

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,

Kill the censor!

by Crad Kilodney,

A guide to the fashions of Beirut

by Oliver Maxwell,

“Traditional values”

by Christopher Lasch,

Left, right, and wrong

Easy

by Christopher Coe,

Real travel

by Edward Hoagland,

Loon tune

by William E. Barklow,

Northern summer

by György Faludy,Translated by Eric Johnson,

Two cheers for exile

by Leszek Kolakowski,

A field guide to American poets

by George P. Garrett,

Amerika (baseball)

Art by R.B. Kitaj,

A better mousetrap

by Robert K. Dornan,

Idiot words

by Erwin Chargaff,

Criminal’s apology

by Harper’s Staff,

The Boers’ war

by Norman Rush,

Inquiring mind wants to know

by Larry King,

The roaring eighties

by Robert Lekachman,

Readings

Drawn by Michael Heath,

Take a letter to Savimbi

by Harper’s Staff,

On campus

by Harper’s Staff,

Guerrillas of the Right

by Harper’s Staff,

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