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Readings

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

“Indiana Jones”

by Harper’s Staff,

The abridged version

The perils of inattention

by Alberto Moravia,Translated by John Satriano,

The politician’s plight

by Harper’s Staff,

Mirage

by Alan Lightman,

Borders and the modern mind

by George Steiner,

Márquez on the Fear of Flying

by Gabriel García Márquez,Translated by Lisa Wyant,

Hudney, Sutej

by Paul Violi,

An index

Taxpayer revolt, English style

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

Drawn by S. Kelley,

Are altruism and cooperation natural?

by Lewis Thomas,

The view from the dugout

by Thomas Boswell,

The sex appeal of names

by Deborah Linville,

Phenomenology of the yawn

by Linda Bell,

Yuppie lottery ticket

Drawn by Bob Englehart,

Barthes

by Roland Barthes,Translated by Linda Coverdale,

Dare to be lazy

Africa’s comic book heroes

by Harper’s Staff,

I try to explain to my children a newspaper article . . .

by Baron Wormser,

De Beauvoir on the “new femininity”

by Simone de Beauvoir,

Stuff of the stars

by Ron West,

Mistakes and the death penalty

by Howard M. Metzenbaum,

Conventional wisdom

by T.L. (Terry L.) Brink,

The day before

by Jerry Falwell,Edited by Joe Cuomo,

A hitchhiker’s guide to Central America

by Nick Blake,

Modern manners

by Fay M. Blake, H. Morton Newman,

Crime and punishment

by Francis T. Murphy,

Inside a Death Squad

by Allan Nairn, Rene Hurtado,

Argentina’s ghosts

To General Kiszczak

Readings

Drawn by Tom Toles,

Arthur Miller on McCarthy’s legacy

by Arthur Miller,

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