Harper's Magazine: January 1997

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January 1997

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Henri Bureau (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Rifles; Smoke PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The book-banning racket, from October 1996: Letter By Matthew Freeman Letter By Marc Herman On Missing children, from October 1996: Letter By Sallie Tisdale Letter By Cindy Rousseau Letter By Aileen and Eric Constans Letter By Nadia Silvershine Letter By Stephanie Wilson On Man and bull, from November 1996: Letter By Jennifer O'Connor Letter By Jolanta Benal PDF IMAGES
8-10	Notebook/Article La vie bohème By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Entrepreneurship; Information society; Mass media and culture PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-17	Readings/Article Literature's great divide By Charles Baxter SEE ALSO: Novelists; Poets PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Trading places SEE ALSO: Campaign debates; Political candidates; Republicans PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article Catfight on the far right By Gary Aldrich SEE ALSO: Conservatism in the press; Correspondence; Brock, David; Aldrich, Gary; Invective PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Weeping with the enemy By Erika Rothenberg SEE ALSO: Apologizing; Bombardment; Greeting cards PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Photo Death of the gerbil By Donna Ferrato (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Children and death; Kindergarten PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Bosnia's alternate reality SEE ALSO: Bosnia and Hercegovina; Ethnic relations; Protectorates PDF IMAGES Readings/Article In case of emergency, break phone By Paul Sturpe SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents; Public Relations PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The CIA opens wide By Brian Latell SEE ALSO: Freedom of information; Records and correspondence; Security classification (Government documents); United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Saving Disney from itself By Rick West SEE ALSO: Amusement parks; Career as president of Disneyland amusement park; Disneyland (Calif.); Management; Pressler, Paul PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Alex Webb (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Miniature golf; Trees PDF IMAGES
22-25	Readings/Article Guess who's not coming to dinner By Barbara Carlson SEE ALSO: Interviewing in radio; Minneapolis; Minneapolis (Minn.); Minnesota; Talk shows PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Collection Readings By Yuri Marder (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Fatoumata By Yuri Marder (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Women immigrants PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Mima By Yuri Marder (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Argentina; Russians; Women immigrants PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Norse play PDF IMAGES
25-28	Readings/Article The diva in decline By Daniel Harris SEE ALSO: Actresses; Gay men; Motion picture actors and actresses PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Mary Yaeger SEE ALSO: Embroidery; Femininity; Life skills PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article A small taste of fame By John Cunningham SEE ALSO: Actresses; Recipes PDF IMAGES
28-29	Readings/Article A date with the family By Anne Ryun and Jim Ryun SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs); Parental consent PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Stuart Freedman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Albania; Male impersonators; Sex role PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem History By Christopher Howell PDF IMAGES
32-33	Readings/Article Necropolis By Luc Sante SEE ALSO: Causes; City and town life; New Yorkers PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Maria Miesenberger (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Family—Pictorial works; Miesenberger, Maria PDF IMAGES
35-54	Article Prisoner of war: The lure of gunfire and the enemy within By Scott Anderson SEE ALSO: Career as war correspondent; Chechnia; Chechnia (Russia); Civil War, 1994-1996; Guerrilla warfare; Anderson, Scott; Sri Lanka; War; War correspondents PDF IMAGES
55-61	Article Dreaming of a black Christmas: Kwanzaa bestows the gifts of therapy By Gerald Lyn Early SEE ALSO: Afrocentrism; Race identity PDF IMAGES
62-68	Review A flapping of scolds: The literary establishment descends on T.S. Eliot By Vince Passaro SEE ALSO: Julius, Anthony; Criticism; Criticism and interpretation—Book reviews; Denby, David; English literature; Great books: my adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the western world (Book); Heart of darkness (Book); Inventions of the March Hare: poems 1909-1917 (Book); Conrad, Joseph; Poets, English; Political and social views; Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns); T.S. Eliot, anti-semitism, and literary form (Book) PDF IMAGES
69-75	Fiction Bishop's house By Mary Gordon PDF IMAGES
76-83	Article Lost Atlantis: Nude scientists, giant sharks, bad vibes, and me By Ptolemy Tompkins SEE ALSO: Bahamas; Childhood and youth; Journeys—Bahamas—Bimini Islands; Tompkins, Peter; Tompkins, Ptolemy PDF IMAGES
87	Double acrostic/Department No. 169 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Projec-tiles By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES