Harper's Magazine: December 1988

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December 1988

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Victoria Kann SEE ALSO: Censorship; Official secrets PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Just like us?, from August 1988: Letter By Alice Crawford On Against PCs, from September 1988: Letter By Gordon Inkeles Letter By James Rhoads Letter By Nathaniel S. Borenstein Letter By Toby Koosman Letter By Bradley C. Johnson Letter By Wendell Berry On The new god will fail, from October 1988: Letter By Ralph Slovenko PDF IMAGES
12-15	Notebook/Article Politics nouveau By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1981-1989; 1988-; Postmodernism PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
21-24	Readings/Article History outside of history By Greil Marcus SEE ALSO: Baccalaureate addresses; Historiography; 1960-1970; Nineteen sixties; Rolling Stones (Rock group); Social history; University of California at Berkeley PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Developing countries; Military government PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Newsroom chivalry By George Cotliar SEE ALSO: Forms of address; Los Angeles times (American newspaper); Obituaries; Style PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The story of his life SEE ALSO: Career as author; McInerney, Jay PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article And they'll smell of Russian vodka SEE ALSO: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional; Revolutionaries; Terrorists PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Collect 'em, trade 'em SEE ALSO: Qaddafi, Muammar; Portraits; Terrorism; Trading cards PDF IMAGES Readings/Article VIP's and sea turtles By Allen Neuharth SEE ALSO: Neuharth, Allen; Correspondence; Homes and haunts; Homes and haunts—Florida—Cocoa Beach; Law enforcement; Publishers and publishing; Sea turtles; Wildlife conservation PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ted Spagna (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Polar bear; Rhinoceroses; Sleep behavior in animals; Zoo animals PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Out of Vietnam By N. SEE ALSO: Abduction; Pirates; Rape; Thailand; Vietnam; Women refugees PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Economic justice—for us and them By Samuel Bowles SEE ALSO: International economic relations; Internationalism; Labor movement; 1981-1993; Nationalism PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article McReading By Roger W. Shuy SEE ALSO: Business names; McDonald's Corporation; Mc (Prefix); Trademarks; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Heavy weather By Jane Feuer SEE ALSO: Television weathercasting PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Courts; Hypnotists; Trials PDF IMAGES
35-36	Readings/Article A river's route By Gretel Ehrlich SEE ALSO: Hiking; Nature (Aesthetics) PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Photo Lanesboro #8 By Thomas Bremer (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aerial photographs; Cities and towns; Landscape PDF IMAGES
37-38	Readings/Fiction In our state By Tom Drury PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article Hot golf spots SEE ALSO: Golf; Golf courses PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Barbara Stauffacher Solomon SEE ALSO: Château de Marly-le-Roi (Marly-le-Roi, France); Gardens; Villa Lante (Bagnaia, Italy) PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem The future as a cow By Lucie Brock-Broido PDF IMAGES
43-52	Collection Inside M16 PDF IMAGES Article An introduction By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Cavendish, Anthony; Censorship; Inside intelligence (Book); Official secrets PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article Inside M16: A spy's memoir banned in Britain By Anthony Cavendish SEE ALSO: Cavendish, Anthony; Career as intelligence officer; Intelligence officers; Intelligence service PDF IMAGES
53-59	Fiction Untime of the Imam By Salman Rushdie PDF IMAGES
60-61	Article Nicaragua, on the back burner: The iguana-stew issue By Veronica Geng SEE ALSO: Nicaragua; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
62-71	Article The muses are heard: Dancing in the heart of regional arts By Stanley Elkin SEE ALSO: Dance PDF IMAGES
73-76	Article Bodies: After the last battle of the Iran-Iraq war By Tony Horwitz SEE ALSO: Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988; Iraq; War correspondents PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 72 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Moving parts By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES