Harper's Magazine: April 1986

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April 1986

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration Orchard Street By David Levine SEE ALSO: City and town life PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On What gets made in Congress, from February 1986: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
8-9	Notebook/Article Scorecard By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Communism; Debts, External; Foreign economic relations; World politics PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-15	Readings/Article Map of Israel, map of Palestine By Meron Benvenisti SEE ALSO: Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; Maps; 1949-; Names, Geographical; Palestine PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Alienation (Social psychology); Suicidal behavior PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Lasers: The Star Wars offense SEE ALSO: Strategic Defense Initiative PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Liberalism's last hope By Mario Cuomo SEE ALSO: Interviews; Cuomo, Mario Matthew; Political and social views PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Dementia and Mrs. Thatcher By Ian J. Deary, Simon Wessely, and Michael Farrell SEE ALSO: Aged; Thatcher, Margaret; Recollection (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article Debray: Beyond the Soviet threat By Régis Debray and Nathan Gardels SEE ALSO: Cold War; Developing countries; Interviews; 1945-1989; 1945-1991; Political and social views; Debray, Régis; World politics PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Revisionism run amok SEE ALSO: Physiological effect; Quotations; Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article The one-minute misanthrope By Karl Kraus and Harry Zohn (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Aphorisms and apothegms; Humor; Kraus, Karl PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Joyce made easy By Gordon Lish PDF IMAGES
23-25	Readings/Article Truth, but without respect for truth By George Swift Trow SEE ALSO: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Degeneration; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Face the nation SEE ALSO: Facial expression; Television journalists; Training of PDF IMAGES
25-27	Readings/Article Frameworks By Sue Hubbell SEE ALSO: Biography; Botany; Classification; Divorce; Divorced women; Hubbell, Sue PDF IMAGES Readings/Map A colloquial geography SEE ALSO: Maps; Spoken English PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame, Hayward, Wisconsin, 1984 By David Graham (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article Inspired discretion By Marguerite Duras SEE ALSO: Duras, Marguerite; Views on man-woman relationships; Views on marriage PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Collection Readings By Julio Cortázar PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction No, no, and no By Julio Cortázar and Thomas Christensen (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo L.A. car wash By David Shuler (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Automobiles in art; Volkswagen automobile PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Baudelaire's new leaf By Charles Baudelaire and Rosemary Lloyd (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Aupick, Caroline Archimbault-Dufays Baudelaire; Baudelaire, Charles; Correspondence; Finance, Personal; Psychology PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Stairs again By Julio Cortázar and Thomas Christensen (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article The Howard Rose story SEE ALSO: Biography; Book jackets; Rose, Howard N.; Private I (Book) PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem A personal history of the curveball By Jonathan Holden PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Cartoon Toro, Toro, Toro meet the lawn nymphs of Nyack, New York PDF IMAGES
35-47	Collection What does the government owe the poor? PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Jesse Jackson and Charles A. Murray SEE ALSO: Murray, Charles A.; Jackson, Jesse; Political and social views; Poor; Poverty; Public welfare PDF IMAGES
39	Graphs and Charts The war against poverty SEE ALSO: Charts, diagrams, etc.; Poverty; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
43	Quotation The millionaire and the dishwasher By George Orwell SEE ALSO: Social conflict PDF IMAGES
46	Quotation The projects of poverty By James Baldwin SEE ALSO: Harlem (New York, New York); Public housing PDF IMAGES
48-56	Article A study in red: Zambia succumbs to its debts By Ed Zuckerman SEE ALSO: Debts, External; Foreign economic relations; 1964; Zambia PDF IMAGES
57-61	Fiction The impresario By Isaac Bashevis Singer PDF IMAGES
62-63	Article Who profits in designing genes?: The invention of a patented success By Joe Alper SEE ALSO: Contributions in genetic engineering; Genetic engineering; Boyer, Herbert W.; Patents; Cohen, Stanley PDF IMAGES
64-69	Article Less is less: The dwindling American short story By Madison Smartt Bell SEE ALSO: Hempel, Amy; Beattie, Ann; Mason, Bobbie Ann; Cathedral (Book); Leavitt, David; Distortions (Book); Family dancing (Book); Barthelme, Frederick; Moon deluxe (Book); Taylor, Peter Hillsman; Carver, Raymond; Reasons to live (Book); “Shilo” and other stories (Book); Short stories, American; “The Old Forest” and other stories (Book) PDF IMAGES
70-73	Collection Three cocktail parties By Brian McCormick PDF IMAGES Drama I. Pain By Brian McCormick PDF IMAGES
71-73	Drama II. Situation zero By Brian McCormick PDF IMAGES
73	Drama III. Adultery By Brian McCormick PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 40 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Bar hopping By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES