Harper's Magazine: 1993

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1993

January	Selected Articles The end of the twentieth century: Historical reflections on a misunderstood epoch By John Lukacs Versailles on the Potomac By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Some other time By Alan P. Lightman The prophet from Jupiter By Tony Earley Poetry Contributor's notes By Jason Scott Bell
February	Selected Articles The artifice of the natural By Charles Siebert God's gunboats By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Lederhosen By Haruki Murakami The 400-pound CEO By George Saunders
March	Selected Articles Balkan death trip: Scenes from a futile war By Tony Horwitz Germany resurgent By Conor Cruise O'Brien Fiction The dream of the consortium By Steven Millhauser
April	Selected Articles The last shot: At Abraham Lincoln High School, black kids play basketball for love, a college scholarship, and—if they can beat the odds—a way out By Darcy Frey The soul of an intercontinental wanderer By Pico Iyer Fiction Varieties of disturbance By Lydia Davis Top of the food chain By T. Coraghessan Boyle Poetry Refugees By Beckian Fritz Goldberg
May	Selected Articles A woman's work: Too many demands, and not enough selves By Louise Erdrich Zagreb: A letter to my daughter By Slavenka Drakulic Fiction U & I By Iginio Ugo Tarchetti Gilbert's mother By William Trevor
June	Selected Articles The new auteurs By Mark Gill, Jeffrey Godsick, Bob Israel, and Joe Nimziki Growing up nasty By Andrew O'Hagan Fiction Aren't you happy for me? By Richard Bausch
July	Selected Articles Our long national nightmare is just beginning By Karen Therese, Alyce Wittenstein, and Heather Webb The bores on the bus By Maureen Dowd Fiction The practical heart By Allan Gurganus Reading the paper at school By Ron Carlson
August	Selected Articles The next last frontier: A newcomer's journey through the Pacific Northwest By Jonathan Raban The food-aid racket By Michael Maren Fiction Weekend By Amy Hempel Poetry One is the point By H.L. Hix
September	Selected Articles NAFTA: A warning for the president By Geoffrey P. Faux The Left, lost in the politics of identity By Todd Gitlin Fiction The awakening of my interest in annular systems By David Foster Wallace
October	Selected Articles Going to see the dragon: A journey through south China, land of capitalist miracles, where yesterday's rice paddy becomes tomorrow's metropolis, and a thousand factories bloom By Paul Theroux An unsentimental Mideast peace By Amos Oz Fiction Three ways to die from the fifties By Robert Olen Butler A note on the type By Ron Carlson Poetry Leaves By Charles Simic
November	Selected Articles America skips school: Why we talk so much about education and do so little By Benjamin R. Barber Yellow brick road By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Trick or treat By Padgett Powell Poetry Ode to the new California By William J. Knight
December	Selected Articles Adieu, Big Bird: On the terminal irrelevance of public television By Lewis H. Lapham Santa's little helper By David Sedaris Fiction Slow motion By Reginald Gibbons The music of lives in bed By Kenneth Koch