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August 1999 Issue - 20 Articles- Letters
Doug Fawley and Maia Szalavitz
, pp. 4-8 The War on (Some) Drugs
- Notebook
Lewis H. Lapham
, pp. 9-12 Tremendous Trifles
- Harper's Index, pp. 13-14
Readings
- Belgrade Underground
A.G.
, pp. 15-18 - Principled Uncertainty
Richard Feynman
, pp. 19-21 - A Celebration of Flies
Spalding Gray
, pp. 22-24 - From Russia With Lust
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
, p. 25 - The Masked Ball
Klaus Mann
, pp. 26-27 - The Man With the Golden Horde
Cecelia Holland
, pp. 28-31 - An American Diary
Roger Shimomura
, p. 32 - Report: Wheaties
Shane DuBow
, pp. 33-44 Chasing the ripening harvest across America's Great Plains
- Letter: Dispatch from a Dead War
Scott Anderson and Sebastian Junger
, pp. 45-62 On the island of Cyprus, a hateful peace emerges
- Political Letter: Busted Flush
David Plotz
, pp. 63-72 South Carolina's video-poker operators run a political machine
- Archive: My Countryside, Then and Now
Malcolm Cowley
, pp. 73-77 - Annotation: Fowl Trouble
Christopher D. Cook
, pp. 78-79 In the nation's poultry plants, brutality to worker as well as to bird
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Review: Unlikely Stories (9 Reviews) Vince Passaro
, pp. 80-89 Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore
- Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
- Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
- Break It Down by Lydia Davis
- Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
- Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven by Rick Moody
- The KGB Bar Reader by Ken Foster
- Story: Forty-Minute Lunch
Jennifer Egan
, pp. 90-98 - Puzzle
Richard E. Maltby Jr.
, p. 99 - Map, pp. 100-102
- Cover photograph
A. Boccacio
