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Readings

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

Revisionism run amok

by Harper’s Staff,

Debray: Beyond the Soviet Threat

Liberalism’s Last Hope

by Mario Cuomo,

Dementia and Mrs. Thatcher

by Ian J. Deary, Simon Wessely, Michael Farrell,

Lasers

by Harper’s Staff,

The Star Wars offense

Readings

Drawn by E. Mark Stern,

Map of Israel, map of Palestine

by Meron Benvenisti,

Trunk lines

Edited by David Gucwa, James Ehmann,

Children of the wind

The mind of the hunter

by Barry Lopez,

Painted backdrops

by Edgardo Cozarinsky,

The aesthetic of the series

by Umberto Eco,

The corporate portrait

by Michael Clegg, Martin Guttmann,

Signs in the supermarket

by Milton Glaser,

Intellectuals and power

Translated by Richard E. Allen,

Red Music

by Josef Skvorecky`,

Anbetung des Inhalts

Art by Jorg Immendorff,

A field guide to the Yakuza

by Harper’s Staff,

Play money

by Gregg Leslie,

Why Star Wars software won’t work

by David Lorge Parnas,

An exercise in tact

by Robert K. Dornan,

Star dances

Art by A.K. Dewdney,

Readings

Drawn by Ben Sargent,

Have you ever owed a bar bill?

by Harper’s Staff,

In the name of the good

by Vasilii Semenovich Grossman,

Return to sender

by Harper’s Staff,

It had wings

by Allan Gurganus,

Cupid’s disease

by Oliver Sacks,

The tumbling of worms

by Stanley Kunitz,

A country soundscape

by R. Murray Schafer,

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