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Clowning Achievement

by Bernhard Paul,Translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer,

From an open letter written in March by Bernhard Paul, founder and director of Germany’s Circus Roncalli, to Peer Steinbrück, the Social Democratic candidate for German chancellor, who in February…

Circus music

by Edward Hoagland,

For clowns, lions, and solo trapeze

P.T. Barnum and my great-great-granddad’s slaves

by Allan Gurganus,

How do you stop an elephant?

by Robert C. Smith,

Big Apple circus

Art by Lynn Saville,

Dying argots

by Edward Hoagland,

Last call for screechie, shandy, and the sneeze mob

Forecast

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,

The improbable circus

by Harper’s Staff,

Solved at last

by Harper’s Staff,

Unfair

by Harper’s Staff,

Circus day

Drawn by R. Van Buren,

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Clowning Achievement

Circus music

P.T. Barnum and my great-great-granddad’s slaves

How do you stop an elephant?

Big Apple circus

Dying argots

Forecast

The improbable circus

Solved at last

Unfair

Circus day

July 1915

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