Harper's Magazine: November 1989

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November 1989

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Ross Lewis (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Night PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from June 1989: Letter By W.B. Gerard On Please stand by, from June 1989: Note/correction On Mona Lisa on a lentil, from July 1989: Letter By James N.M. Whitman On Letters, from August 1989: Letter By W.B. Gerard Letter By Linda A. Gerard Letter By Josh Gillette Letter By Sheila Joseph On Harper's index, from August 1989: Letter By Douglas D. Corbitt Letter By Diane A. Schacter On Life on Mars, from August 1989: Letter By Stephen John Price Letter By Carl R. Henn Letter By Greta Nintzel Letter By David Snead Letter By Rob Lattanzi Letter By Frederick Turner On Toward pure energy, from August 1989: Letter By Cheryl Alu Letter By Rolf Faessler PDF IMAGES
10-13	Notebook/Article Endgames By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: American essays; McKibben, Bill; Environmentalism; Fukuyama, Francis; Social prediction PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-24	Readings/Article Mapping the real geography By Barry Holstun Lopez SEE ALSO: Geography; Landscape PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Gene Elder SEE ALSO: Desecration; Flags PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article The heavy hand of the NRA By James H. Warner SEE ALSO: Assault rifles; Firearms ownership; National Rifle Association PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Journalism in our time By Bill Walter SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico By Patrick Nagatani (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Indian dance; New Mexico; White Sands Missile Range (N.M.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Why was Flight 655 shot down? By David R. (David Richard) Carlson SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents; Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988; Naval operations, American; Persian Gulf; Vincennes (Ship) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Poem Funk and fibers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Wet verse at The New Yorker By Charles Bernstein SEE ALSO: American poetry; The New Yorker (American periodical) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
30	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: College graduates; Office buildings PDF IMAGES
32-35	Readings/Article Vulgar recipes By John Thorne SEE ALSO: Cookery, American PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Photo Rosemary Jamison's truck By Vincent Borrelli (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Decoration; Trucks PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Article (Very) fast food By Chris Maynard and William Scheller SEE ALSO: Cookery (Chicken); Cookery (Veal) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Relax, breathe, visualize, dump her By Gerald Epstein SEE ALSO: Self-help techniques; Separation (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article Writer's grudge By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Invective; Twain, Mark PDF IMAGES Readings/Article My white father By Susan Tucker SEE ALSO: Alabama; Illegitimate children; Interviews; Mulattoes; Butler, Priscilla PDF IMAGES
40-44	Readings/Article Barbara Walters's theater of revenge By Mark Crispin Miller SEE ALSO: Walters, Barbara; Career in television; Celebrities; Fame; Interviewing in television PDF IMAGES
41	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Beggars; Hats PDF IMAGES
45-56	Article Stalking the billion-footed beast: A literary manifesto for the new social novel By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Literature and society; Society in literature; The bonfire of the vanities (Book); Wolfe, Tom PDF IMAGES
57-61	Fiction Reassurance By Allan Gurganus PDF IMAGES
63-67	Article East-west relation: Summit on First Avenue By Robert Stone SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Communists; East Europeans; Stone, Robert PDF IMAGES
68-75	Article Under the influence: Paying the price of my father's booze By Scott R. (Scott Russell) Sanders SEE ALSO: Alcoholics; Family; Family relationships; Sanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell) PDF IMAGES
76-80	Article Out my computer window: Travels in the land of BIX By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Electronic discussion groups PDF IMAGES
81	Double acrostic/Department No. 83 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
84	Puzzle/Department Plus fours By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES

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