HARPER'S Founded in 1850, one of America's oldest literary magazines, and is still in publication! Interesting and intelligent articles, and vintage advertisements of the day -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * ISSUE DATE: DECEMBER 1999; VOL. 299, NO. 1795 IN THIS ISSUE:- [Detailed contents description written EXCLUSIVELY for this listing by MORE MAGAZINES! Use 'Control F' to search this page.] * This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: Painting (detail), Waldorf Restaurant, by Ralph Goings. Our featured archive writer this month is Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973. Illustration By Tullio Pericoli, Courtesy O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York. Letters: Reading Prose . . . John Appling, David Bouchier. Notebook: Performance Art . . . Lewis H. Lapham. Harper's Index. Readings:. Satanic Beauty . . . Crispin Sartwell. The Swarm . . . Jorie Graham. The Future of Cinema . . . an interview with Harmony Korine. Muzzle Tov! . . . Rabbi R. Merznelstein on firearms ownership. My Humble Self . . . Lewis Nordan. And... Michael Ackerman, Tom Woodruff, Steve Simon, and the U.S. military's Indonesian curriculum. Essay: SOLDIERS OF GREAT FORTUNE . . . Bob Shacochis. Is America's military training warriors or humanitarians. Annotation: THIS IS YOUR BILL OF RIGHTS, ON DRUGS . . . Graham Boyd and Jack Hitt. How we the people became the enemy. Letter: DOWN AND OUT AT THE HOTEL PROVIDENCE . . . Guy Lawson. Scenes from a Bowery flophouse. Memoir: THE END OF EMPIRE . . . Pico Iyer. Inside the revolving door of dreams. Archive: AMERICA'S MEDIEVAL WOMEN . . . Pearl S. Buck. Review: URBAN PHILOSOPHER . . . Michael Lind. A walking tour of Lewis Mumford. Story: GREEN WORLD . . . Greg Hrbek. Puzzle:Richard E. Maltby Jr. Map: SPACE, THE CLUTTERED FRONTIER. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Standard sized, 8" X 11" magazine is COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) The pages are clean and bright. A great snapshot of the time, and a terrific Birthday present or Anniversary gift! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, ALL GUARANTEED --