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August 1986

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THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Eve Arnold (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Farms PDF IMAGES
4-77	Letters/Department Letters On Anthropology's native problems, from May 1986: Letter By Thomas H. Fitzgerald Letter By Jay Joyce Letter By Tibor R. Machan Letter By Keith A. Weinberger Letter By Terrence Dunst Letter By Linda A. Rabben On Harper's index, from June 1986: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
7-8	Notebook/Article Band music By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Business and politics; Career in entrepreneurship—Humor; Wolper, David L. PDF IMAGES
9	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
10-14	Readings/Article Mitterrand and Duras on Reagan's America By François Mitterrand, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Philippe Antoine (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Mitterrand, François; Duras, Marguerite; 1981-1989; Political and social views; Psychology; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
11	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Cowboys; Horses PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Chernobyl: The gourmet angle By Patricia Wells SEE ALSO: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986; Radioactive contamination of food; Ukraine PDF IMAGES
16-20	Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES Readings/Article At the pump SEE ALSO: Angola; Civil War, 1975-; Gulf Oil; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Political activists; Social responsibility of business PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Take a letter to Savimbi SEE ALSO: Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro; On postage stamps PDF IMAGES Readings/Article On campus SEE ALSO: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Jewish-Arab relations; Lectures and lecturing; Palestine Liberation Organization; Palestinian Arabs PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Political ethics; Political oratory; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The roaring eighties By Robert Lekachman SEE ALSO: Credit; Debt; Depressions; 1929; 1981- PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Inquiring mind wants to know By Larry King SEE ALSO: Celebrities; King, Larry PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article The Boers' war By Norman Rush SEE ALSO: Afrikaners; 1961-; 1978-1989; South Africa PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Criminal's apology SEE ALSO: Alternatives to imprisonment; Apologizing; Burglars; Newport; Oregon; Portraits; Kirby, Thomas E.; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article A better mousetrap By Robert K. Dornan SEE ALSO: Interviews; Lie detectors and detection; Dornan, Robert K. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Idiot words By Erwin Chargaff SEE ALSO: Terms and phrases; Usage PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Amerika (baseball) By R.B. Kitaj SEE ALSO: Baseball; Baseball players PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Fiction A field guide to American poets By George P. Garrett PDF IMAGES
28-31	Readings/Article Two cheers for exile By Leszek Kolakowski SEE ALSO: Exiles PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Poem Northern summer By György Faludy and Eric Johnson (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Graphs and Charts Loon tune SEE ALSO: Birdsongs; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Loons; Voiceprints PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Real travel By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Hoagland, Edward; Health aspects; Journeys; Travelers PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Fiction Easy By Christopher Coe PDF IMAGES
35-45	Collection A stubborn sense of place PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: American literature PDF IMAGES
36	Article [Untitled Article] By Mary Hood SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Hood, Mary PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Madison Smartt Bell SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Bell, Madison Smartt PDF IMAGES
38	Article [Untitled Article] By Lee Smith SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Smith, Lee PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Harry Crews SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Crews, Harry PDF IMAGES
39	Quotation A visit to Richmond: 1905 By Henry James SEE ALSO: Southerners PDF IMAGES
40-41	Article [Untitled Article] By William Price Fox SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Fox, William Price PDF IMAGES
41-42	Article [Untitled Article] By Leon V. Driskell SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Driskell, Leon V. PDF IMAGES
42-43	Article [Untitled Article] By Richard Ford SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Ford, Richard PDF IMAGES
43-45	Article [Untitled Article] By Lee K. Abbott SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Abbott, Lee K. PDF IMAGES Article The Sahara of the Bozart: A second look SEE ALSO: Arts; Intellectuals; -Statistics PDF IMAGES Quotation The Sahara of the Bozart: A second look By H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken SEE ALSO: Arts; Intellectuals PDF IMAGES Article The Sahara of the Bozart: A second look PDF IMAGES
44	Quotation The Southern writer observed: 1956 By Edmund Wilson SEE ALSO: Southerners PDF IMAGES
45	Article [Untitled Article] By Leigh Allison Wilson SEE ALSO: American literature; Authorship; Wilson, Leigh Allison PDF IMAGES
47-53	Article Up against it. The Berlin Wall, concrete symbol of the divided self By Peter Schneider and Joel Agee (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Berlin (Germany); Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Identity (Psychology); 1945-1990 PDF IMAGES
54-60	Article The Pizza Hut papers. A plaintiff parable By Eric Treisman SEE ALSO: Career in law; Cases; Treisman, Eric; Food contamination; New Mexico; Personal injuries; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
61-65	Advertising Supplement Fall 1986 catalogue showcase PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article For the Contras, after a fashion. Selling a new line By Eric Alterman SEE ALSO: Advertising, Political; Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense; 1979-; 1981-1989; Nicaragua PDF IMAGES
68-72	Fiction In search of the rattlesnake plantain By Margaret Eleanor Atwood PDF IMAGES
73-75	Article Reflections in a glass eye. A videocassette best-seller list By David Black PDF IMAGES
76	Double acrostic/Department No. 44 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Marginal observation By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES