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

Who was Marx Square named after?

by Harper’s Staff,

Eighteen minutes

by Axel Schulze,Translated by Roger C. (Roger Cecil) Norton,

The humble administrator’s garden

by Vikram Seth,

The writer and unfreedom

by Ivan Klima,Translated by George Theiner,

The vanishing nuclear firebreak

by Michael T. Klare,

Ethics on the nuclear battlefield

by Jeffrey L. House,

Excerpted from “How to Start and Operate a Pro-Life Out-Reach Pregnancy Service Center,” a manual prepared and distributed by the Pearson Foundation, an anti-abortion group. Many anti-abortion activists have set…

How to talk small

by Letitia Baldrige,

Reflections of a rivethead

by Ben Hamper,

Detroit

by Maryann Keller, Kathryn M. Welling,

Heavy traffic ahead

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Drawn by Bill Plympton,

Twisted Sister and the senators

by Dee Snider, John C. Danforth, John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller,

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Art by Akira Kurosawa,

Body politic

by Peter Marin,

It soon became apparent that this was young Lambton’s first tournament

Drawn by Glen Baxter,

Two actors

by Anthony Haden-Guest,

In praise of tuxedos

by Stanley Elkin,

A professional exercise

by Howard Brenton, David Hare,

Men at sea

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood,

Readings

by Richard Avedon,

Readings

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

Who was Marx Square named after?

Not the Royal Canadians

Prisoners’ progress

Media courtesans

Readings

Beirut Elegy

One man’s meat

Eighteen minutes

Murder in the academy

The humble administrator’s garden

Mobil’s amusement and concern

Readings

The writer and unfreedom

The vanishing nuclear firebreak

Ethics on the nuclear battlefield

Deer in a Black Car

Pro-Life ‘Abortion Clinics’

How to talk small

Reflections of a rivethead

Detroit

Readings

Twisted Sister and the senators

Readings

Body politic

It soon became apparent that this was young Lambton’s first tournament

Two actors

In praise of tuxedos

A professional exercise

Men at sea

Readings

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Readings

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

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Who was Marx Square named after?

Not the Royal Canadians

Prisoners’ progress

Media courtesans

Readings

Beirut Elegy

One man’s meat

Eighteen minutes

Murder in the academy

The humble administrator’s garden

Mobil’s amusement and concern

Readings

The writer and unfreedom

The vanishing nuclear firebreak

Ethics on the nuclear battlefield

Deer in a Black Car

Pro-Life ‘Abortion Clinics’

How to talk small

Reflections of a rivethead

Detroit

Readings

Twisted Sister and the senators

Readings

Body politic

It soon became apparent that this was young Lambton’s first tournament

Two actors

In praise of tuxedos

A professional exercise

Men at sea

Readings

January 1986

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