Harper's Magazine Archive (1990)

1990

JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles When worlds collide by John Lofton Bidding Mr. Ovitz adieu by Joe Eszterhas Successful mingling by Susan RoAne Fiction Witness by Madison Smartt Bell
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Wind from the East by Lewis H. Lapham Language, lies, and Latin democracy by Eduardo H. Galeano Can Perestroika be salvaged? by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Anthony Barnett, and Boris Kagarlitsky The stones of Jerusalem by Zvi Jagendorf Fiction Promotion report by Hengchu Chen Charity by Mark Richard The varieties of romantic experience by Robert Cohen
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Déjà vu by Lewis H. Lapham Taking nature's measure by Wendell Berry Words to live by by Jean Said Makdisi Feminism and the forgotten power of sex by Camille Paglia Fiction Enemies and friends by Tim O'Brien Silent movie by Charles Baxter The leap by Louise Erdrich
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Lead into gold by Lewis H. Lapham Which capitalism for Eastern Europe? by John Kenneth Galbraith Getting good phone by Dan O'Day The war on (some) drugs by Stephen Jay Gould Fiction Kerenyaga by Rand Richards Cooper
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles From the mouths of babes to a jail cell: Child abuse and the abuse of justice by Dorothy Rabinowitz Play on words by Lewis H. Lapham Ghettoized by black unity by Shelby Steele Good cop, bad cop by F.W. (Frederik Willem) De Klerk Skipping class struggle by Piotr Wesolowski Fiction Death of a right fielder by Stuart Dybek Eleanor in the underworld by J.S. Marcus
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Neither morons nor imbeciles nor idiots: In the company of the mentally retarded by Sallie Tisdale The other canon by Lewis H. Lapham What's central to Central Europe? by Erazim V. Kohák Zaire: “now I wait for death” by François Lusanga Ngiele AIDS, mourning, and action by Michael Feingold Fiction Long distance by Edna O'Brien Rehearsing “The Firebird” by Jane Hamilton Poetry Personals ad by Allen Ginsberg
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Numbers game by Lewis H. Lapham Who are these animals we kill? by Barry Holstun Lopez Threats to civil society, east and west by Nathan Gardels Can buy me love by Carl S. Taylor Fiction Texas by Padgett Powell Kansas by Padgett Powell Never in this world by Mark Richard
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Learning a new party line by Miklós Vámos Hudson Bay of Pigs? by Floyd W. Rudmin Fiction Death by landscape by Margaret Eleanor Atwood In search of the indispensable by Giorgio Manganelli Poetry Observations and experiments by Annie Dillard Edward's anecdote by Donald Hall
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Chronicle of a debacle foretold: How deregulation begat the S&L scandal by L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis The lost art of political argument by Christopher Lasch Bailout etiquette: A primer by Craig A., Jr. Francis Fiction Juno of the Veii by Guy Davenport Poetry Short history of the bourgeoisie by Hans Magnus Enzensberger Mtasipol by Benjamin Fondane
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Late Victorians: San Francisco, AIDS, and the homosexual stereotype by Richard Rodriguez Lines in the sand by Lewis H. Lapham The velvet hangover by Václav Havel S&Ls: The final frontier by Stanley E. Adams Fiction One evening by Samuel Beckett King by John Edgar Wideman Sweet cheeks by Lee K. Abbott Poetry Going by August Kleinzahler
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Democracy in America? Not only the economy is in decline by Lewis H. Lapham Telling foreign truths by David Rieff Insider baseball: How Sununu sold Souter by Patrick B. McGuigan Censorship and its aftermath by Nadine Gordimer Fiction Nativity, Caucasian by Allan Gurganus Poetry We did what was expected of us by Yehuda Amichai Let us pledge by Wendell Berry
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Questions of conquest: What Columbus wrought, and what he did not by Mario Vargas Llosa Acceptable opinions by Lewis H. Lapham Why are we in the Gulf? by Robert Kerrey Witch-hunting in high school by William Edward Lee Dubois Fiction Ladies and gentlemen:: by Joyce Carol Oates Poetry The loneliness of the military historian by Margaret Eleanor Atwood