Harper's Magazine: 1989

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1989

January	Selected Articles A fury of symbols: How the sixties erupted in one man's life By Joel Agee Uncle Sam, stay home By Carlos Fuentes Fiction Peace of mind By T. Coraghessan Boyle Poetry Words for my daughter By John Balaban
February	Selected Articles The recoloring of campus life: Student racism, academic pluralism, and the end of a dream By Shelby Steele Why I won't go to Germany By Cynthia Ozick Fiction To die for one's country is glorious By Danilo Kis Peace By Max Apple
March	Selected Articles Speak loudly, carry a small stick: Foreign policy in an age of ambivalence By Jonathan Schell Multiple choice By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction My brother By Margaret Eleanor Atwood In love with Ariadne By William Trevor Poetry Proposal By Raymond Carver
April	Selected Articles The old school By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction A tail By Tseng-ch°I Wang Under this very mall By Allan Gurganus Poetry Graphic winces By Allen Ginsberg
May	Selected Articles Our frail planet in cold, clear view: The South Pole as global laboratory By Barry Holstun Lopez Vietnam diary By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Americana By Mona Simpson
June	Selected Articles Catching a westbound freight: The hard freedom of the American hobo By Bruce Duffy Belles lettres By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The feather in the toque By Susan Minot Millions By Marianne Wiggins
July	Selected Articles In deepest gringolandia: Mexico By Bob Shacochis Inspectors general By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Subtotals By Greg Burnham Erogenous South Africa By Breyten Breytenbach Poetry Ode to Michael Milken By R.W. Grant
August	Selected Articles Life on Mars: Cultivating a planet—and ourselves By Frederick W. Turner Heartbreak motels By Richard Ford Fiction Lucy and Ricky and the Mambo Kings By Oscar Hijuelos When I began to understand quantum mechanics By Jane Hamilton
September	Selected Articles Who needs the great works? By Roger Shattuck, E.D. (Eric Donald) Hirsch, John Kaliski, Jon Pareles, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Old glory By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Everything is green By David Foster Wallace The dinner party By Margaret Drabble Poetry Pigeons By Baron Wormser
October	Selected Articles In pursuit of pure horror By Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Suzy McKee Charnas, and Gahan Wilson Fiction Dr. Ordinary By Padgett Powell Jump By Nadine Gordimer Poetry Howls By John W. Hart
November	Selected Articles Stalking the billion-footed beast: A literary manifesto for the new social novel By Tom Wolfe Endgames By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Reassurance By Allan Gurganus
December	Selected Articles A political opiate: The war on drugs is a folly and a menace By Lewis H. Lapham Mr. Wujec goes to Warsaw By Jerzy Jastrzebowski Fiction ??? !!! By Revaz Misvelaçze Poetry Ceausescu: No little prince By Ana Blandiana