Harper's Magazine: February 1996

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February 1996

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Penny Gentieu (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Mouth PDF IMAGES
4-78	Letters/Department Letters On Put on a happy face, from September 1995: Letter By James Alan McPherson On Making the incest scene, from November 1995: Letter By Anna Keesey Letter By Jim McKay Letter By Joan Harvey Letter By Vilma Olaes Letter By Mary Burns On Out of the closet, and into Never-Never Land, from December 1995: Letter By Sarah Pettit Letter By Sean Strub Letter By Daniel Harris PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article No alligators in the lifeboat By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1993- PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-15	Readings/Article The war on the West By Rick Bass SEE ALSO: Conservationists; Montana; Nature conservation; Public lands PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Maternity. Leave. SEE ALSO: Hospitals; Los Angeles; Maternity services PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Three small fish with scarves By Bill Scanga SEE ALSO: Fishes; Scarves PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hazel O'Leary's media blitz By Audrey Hoffer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. energy secretary; Government publicity; O'Leary, Hazel Rollins; Officials and employees; United States. Dept. of Energy PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Anne Fishbein (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Russia (Federation); Russians PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article Russian tyrants, fondly remembered By Anne Applebaum SEE ALSO: Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich; Health; Press coverage; Russia (Federation) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Bosnia: One big yawn By Doug Clifton SEE ALSO: Bosnia and Hercegovina; Press coverage; Yugoslav War, 1991 PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Safire's spy novel: An insider's critique By Aldrich Hazen Ames SEE ALSO: Sleeper spy (Book); Safire, William PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article The American way of strife By David Frum SEE ALSO: Social conflict PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Keith Richards, traditionalist By Mim Udovitch SEE ALSO: Drug use; Interviews; Richards, Keith; Rock musicians PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Across (and down) the political spectrum SEE ALSO: Militarism; White supremacy movements PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Welfare cuts: The warm side By Jonathan Freedman SEE ALSO: Ontario; Public welfare; Taxation PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Collection Readings By Ron Jude (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Back no. 572, Chicago By Ron Jude (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Back; Businessmen PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Back no. 187, Atlanta By Ron Jude (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Atlanta; Back; Businessmen PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Collection Readings By Spencer Tunick (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Conditional love SEE ALSO: Albuquerque; Antenuptial contracts; New Mexico PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Smoke By Spencer Tunick (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chimneys; Nudity PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Randy's Donuts By Spencer Tunick (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Coffee shops; Doughnuts; Los Angeles; Nudity; Signs and signboards PDF IMAGES
25-28	Readings/Article Embraceable view By William Cane SEE ALSO: Hugging; Television viewers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Just the way you aren't SEE ALSO: Antenuptial contracts PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article If the lyrics are sad By David Shields SEE ALSO: Mass media and culture PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Pity the pianist By Steve O'Keefe SEE ALSO: Pianists; Piano PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article The chamber musician's secret terror By Diane Nichols SEE ALSO: Stage fright PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The right winger is my shepherd By Paul Kuhrman SEE ALSO: Hockey players; Portraits; Sheppard, Ray; Sheep PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article A new kind of travel writer By Pico Iyer and Kazuo Ishiguro SEE ALSO: Authors; Travel in literature PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration Heaven and hell II By Carmen Lomas Garza SEE ALSO: Heaven; Hell PDF IMAGES
33-34	Readings/Article Caught in the widow's web By Gordon (Gordon D.) Grice PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Petting zoo SEE ALSO: Public Relations; San Diego; Sexual behavior in animals PDF IMAGES
35-43	Article A kiss is still a kiss (even if the sex is postmodern and the romance problematic) By Edwin Dobb SEE ALSO: Dobb, Edwin; Kissing; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES
44-57	Article Surviving Sarajevo: A people still besieged, in a city not yet saved By Elizabeth Rubin SEE ALSO: Bosnia and Hercegovina; Rubin, Elizabeth; Journeys—Bosnia and Hercegovina—Sarajevo; Sarajevo; Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina); Siege, 1992-1996; Yugoslav War, 1991 PDF IMAGES
58-63	Article Wrap session: The Christos' embrace of the Reichstag By Joel Agee SEE ALSO: Berlin; Berlin (Germany); Christo; Conceptual art; Environment (Art) PDF IMAGES
64-73	Fiction The drowned son By David Guterson PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 158 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Inertia By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES