HARPER'S
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ISSUE DATE:
SEPTEMBER 1999; VOL. 299, NO. 1792
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Cover photograph by Laszlo Stern, after Bruno Munari, 1964.
Our featured archive writer this month is H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956.
Illustration By Tullio Pericoli.
Letters: No-man's-land? . . . Robert Bly, Jennifer Parsons.
Notebook: Shadowboxing . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.
Readings:.
Why Johnny Can't Fail . . . Jerry Jesness.
Tiny, Tiny, Tiny Whips of Leather . . . a statement issued by Wesleyan University.
Great Books for Dummies . . . plot summaries from Schoolby tes. com.
The Troubles I've Seen . . . John Weir.
The Nail . . . C. K. Williams.
Keeping Time . . . Edward Said.
Sisters Without Mercy . . . Lynda Barry.
And... Edward Burtynsky, Bo Bartlett, and a recipe by Vladimir Nabokov.
Forum: HOW TO PEEL A POEM . . . Donald Hall, Cynthia Huntington, Five poets dine out on verse Heather McHugh, Paul Muldoon, Charles Simic.
Report: A BOY'S LIFE . . . JoAnn Wypijewski. For Matthew Shepard's killers, what does it take to pass as a man?.
Reviews:.
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD CANNOT READ . . . Francine Prose. How American high school students learn to loathe literature.
THUS SPOKE JEDEDIAH . . . Roger D. Hodge. The distilled wisdom of a cornpone prophet.
Archive: THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH . . . H. L. Mencken.
Story: WATCH THE ANIMALS . . . Alice Elliott Dark.
Puzzle: Richard F. Maltby Jr.
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