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Readings

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

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,

At the pump

by Harper’s Staff,

Chernobyl

by Patricia Wells,

The gourmet angle

Readings

Drawn by M. Stivers,

Mitterrand and Duras on Reagan’s America

by Marguerite Duras,

Delmore caught by the camera’s eye

by Delmore Schwartz,

Children

by Liz Rosenberg,

Fourth of July

Fish story

by William L. Baker,

Swimming to Philadelphia

“Jeune fille sur la plage”

by Fritz Paneth,

“Just show me the mouse”

Drawn by H.L. Schwadron,

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