Harper's Magazine: October 1987

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October 1987

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	Photo [Cover art] By Alex Webb (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Grenada; Grenadians; Men PDF IMAGES
1-14	Advertising Supplement The Harper's vacationer. 1987 fall & winter travel planner By Abby Rand PDF IMAGES
6-11	Letters/Department Letters On The erotic stripped bare. Romanians are prisoners of sexlessness, from March 1987: Letter By III and James A. Morgan On Cultivating virtue. Compost and its moral imperatives, from May 1987: Letter By Allen Lacy On The terrorist aesthetic. Of artists, stockbrokers, and other Jacobins, from June 1987: Letter By Eddie Stern On Parson Weems' fable, from July 1987: Letter By Lloyd N. Dendinger On Addressing Gettysburg, from July 1987: Letter By Jack Duvall Letter By Martin Shockley Letter By Phillip Leininger On A republic of souls. Puritanism and the American presidency, from July 1987: Letter By William M. Sullivan Letter By Louise Hazlett Letter By Katherine Lieber Letter By Lori Buzzell PDF IMAGES
12-14	Notebook/Article Wall painting By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Conceptual art; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; 1981-1989; Lewitt, Sol PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article A “contra” democracy By Robert W. Owen SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Military assistance, American; Nicaragua; North, Oliver; Owen, Robert W. PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Sakharov: The folly of SDI By A.P. (Alan Patrick) McGowan and Andrei Sakharov SEE ALSO: Sakharov, Andrei; Interviews; Military policy; Strategic Defense Initiative PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Map The Republicans' race to lose SEE ALSO: Maps; 1945-1989; The Republican Party; Voting PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Mark Twain on the safest sex By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Masturbation PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Song “Let's take love step-by-step” SEE ALSO: Sexual abstinence; Sexual ethics; Songs and music; Tatiana and Johnny (Musical group) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article AIDS and eros By Julia Kristeva and Leon Samuel Roudiez (Trans.) SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Sex customs; Sexual ethics PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Mrs. American Homemaker SEE ALSO: Awards; Competitions; Housewives PDF IMAGES
25	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Drugs; Testing; Treatment; United States. Food and Drug Administration PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Arrest me By Denis Hirson PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Poem Drab shutters By John Ashbery PDF IMAGES
27	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Alfred Kantor SEE ALSO: Kantor, Alfred; Concentration camp inmates; Concentration camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Imprisonment—Pictorial works; Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Belfast: The allure of the “troubles” By Sally Belfrage SEE ALSO: Mental health; 1969-; 1969-1994; Northern Ireland; Political violence; War PDF IMAGES
29-32	Readings/Article My dinner with Imelda By Richard Howard SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Authors; Marcos, Imelda Romualdez; Journeys—Phillipines—Anecdotes; 1945-1980; Philippines; Political crimes and offenses; Howard, Richard PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Ads for ourselves By Jean Baudrillard and Barry Schwabsky (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Marathon running; New York City Marathon, New York, New York; Performance PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article The gamecockers' call to arms By Buck Haws SEE ALSO: Animal rights activists; Animal welfare; Cockfighting PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Redneck secrets By William Kittredge SEE ALSO: Rednecks PDF IMAGES
35	Collection [untitled] By Chikako Oyama (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Chikako Oyama (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Chikako Oyama (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Pit bull terriers PDF IMAGES
36	Cartoon Postcard folder from suburbia SEE ALSO: Postcards; Suburbanites; Suburbs PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article Weightless By Primo Levi and Piers Spence (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Flight; Physiological aspects; Physiological effect; Space flight; Weightlessness PDF IMAGES
41-49	Article Yesterday's revolution. Grenada, Mr. Reagan, and the hangman By Bob Shacochis SEE ALSO: American Invasion, 1983; Assassination; Shacochis, Bob; Grenada; Journeys—Grenada; Bishop, Maurice; New Jewel Movement (Grenada); People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada); Political crimes and offenses; Saint George's; Trials (Assassination) PDF IMAGES
50-57	Fiction Sorry fugu By T. Coraghessan Boyle PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Crates of fresh poison. The perils of imported produce By Richard M. Caplan SEE ALSO: Commerce; Government policy; Haiti; Pesticides; Produce trade; United States. Food and Drug Administration PDF IMAGES
61-65	Article The hard-boiled go to brunch. Detective fiction in our time By Charles Nicol SEE ALSO: Bitter medicine (Book); Hammett, Dashiell; Detective and mystery stories, American; MacDonald, John D. (John Dann); Pale kings and princes (Book); Chandler, Raymond; Parker, Robert Brown; Macdonald, Ross; Paretsky, Sara; The lonely silver rain (Book); The long goodbye (Book); The Maltese falcon (Book); The moving target (Book) PDF IMAGES
66-70	Article We do abortions here. A nurse's story By Sallie Tisdale SEE ALSO: Abortion; Abortion applicants; Abortion services; Career as abortion services employee; Career in nursing; Nurses; Tisdale, Sallie PDF IMAGES
71	Double acrostic/Department No. 58 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
74	Puzzle/Department Word shuffle By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES