Harper's Magazine: September 1988

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September 1988

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photography [Cover art] By C. Patricia Williams (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chairs; Parks PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The road to Shaaraim, from June 1988: Letter By R.M. Koster Letter By Gail Dreyfuss Letter By Lawrence Fast On The view of me from Mars, from June 1988: Letter By Susan Kenney Letter By Lee K. Abbott On America competes, from July 1988: Letter By Barbara Bedway PDF IMAGES
8-11	Notebook/Article Leviathan in trouble By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Corporations; Orwell, George; 1981-1989; Nineteen eighty-four (Book); Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article Are the homeless crazy? By Jonathan Kozol SEE ALSO: Homeless persons; Homelessness; Housing; Mental health PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon The last Meese cartoon SEE ALSO: Attorneys general; Caricatures and cartoons; Meese, Edwin; Paper dolls PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Leave your fur at the door SEE ALSO: Costume; Detroit; Dress codes; High school students; Regulations PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article An evening in jail SEE ALSO: Amateur theater; Beckett, Samuel; San Quentin State Prison (Calif.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Against health fascism SEE ALSO: Antismoking movement; Cigarette smokers; Civil rights; Legal status, laws, etc. PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Labor pains SEE ALSO: Industrial safety; Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Art/illustration Spotting spooks SEE ALSO: Security measures; Subversive activities; United States. Dept. of Treasury PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Insider nukespeak By Steven Kull SEE ALSO: Military policy; Nuclear weapons; Officials and employees PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Map The geography of one-party rule SEE ALSO: Elections, 1986; Maps; Political parties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article Be all that you can be SEE ALSO: Meditation; Peace; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
28-32	Readings/Article Seoul with gas By James Fenton SEE ALSO: Demonstrations; Fenton, James; Journeys—Korea (South)—Seoul; Korea (South); Riots; Seoul PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photography [Untitled Photography] By Douglas Kent Hall (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Brooms and brushes; Chairs; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Punk Nicaragua By Jane Guskin SEE ALSO: 1979-1990; Nicaragua; Punk culture PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article The ugly tourist By Jamaica Kincaid SEE ALSO: Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Poetry Dialectical materialism By Bruce Weigl PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Photography The magician Baron Lavelle in his home theater (1962) By Stern J. Bramson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Lavelle, Baron; Conjuring; Magicians; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Theology By Margaret Eleanor Atwood PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Article Through a glass, cleanly SEE ALSO: Career in window washing; Steccone, Emma; Steccone, Ettore; Interviews PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Against PCs By Wendell Berry SEE ALSO: Ethics; Berry, Wendell PDF IMAGES
38-42	Readings/Fiction Inheritance By Larry Woiwode PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article Plotting the perfect murder By Tony Hillerman, Donald E. Westlake, Sarah Caudwell, Peter Lovesey, and Nancy Pickard SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Murder; Technique PDF IMAGES Collection Plotting the perfect murder PDF IMAGES
48	Article Buchanan arrested SEE ALSO: Murder; Murder of his wife; Buchanan, Robert PDF IMAGES
51	Article Facts against Buchanan SEE ALSO: Murder of his wife; Buchanan, Robert; Trials (Murder) PDF IMAGES
52	Article Dr. Buchanan killed SEE ALSO: Executions and executioners; Murder of his wife; Murderers; Buchanan, Robert PDF IMAGES
55-59	Article Is there a Europe? After empire, Yalta, and malaise By Peter Schneider PDF IMAGES
61-63	Fiction The runner By Don DeLillo PDF IMAGES
64-65	Article The system that brought down Flight 655: Zeroing in on a Pentagon boondoggle By Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn SEE ALSO: Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988; Naval operations, American; Vincennes (Ship) PDF IMAGES
67-73	Article Dive, he said: Beneath the sea in a nuclear sub By Fred Reed PDF IMAGES
74-76	Article Summer storms: Wind, thunder, rain By Peter M. Leschak SEE ALSO: Minnesota; Storms; Summer PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 69 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Spiral nebulas By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES