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Publication: Harper's Magazine
COMMON GROUND
Finding our way back to the Enlightenment.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Thomas de Zengotita
- Publication
- 2003 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Dean Melmoth
- Length
- 44 minutes
HOW THE DEVIL FALLS IN LOVE
Misanthropy prejudice and other follies.
- Topic
- Essays
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- Author
- Garret Keizer
- Publication
- 2002 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 35 minutes
IN DEFENSE OF THE BOOK
On the enduring pleasures of paper type page and ink.
- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- William H. Gass
- Publication
- 1999 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Scott Huler
- Length
- 38 minutes
MORNING IN AMERICA
The rise and fall of the National Lampoon.
- Topic
- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Hendra
- Publication
- 2002 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 38 minutes
THINK ABOUT IT
Ways we know and don't.
- Topic
- Essays
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- Publication
- 1989 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Gail Farley
- Length
- 15 minutes
WE ARE NOT IMMUNE
Influenza, SARS, and the collapse of public health.
- Topic
- Health and Medicine
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- Author
- Ronald J. Glasser
- Publication
- 2004 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 33 minutes
BEAVERS
The classic author's short story about a man who contemplates killing a beaver on his property.
- Topic
- Fiction
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- Author
- Arthur Miller
- Publication
- 2005 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Length
- 21 minutes
ENTER THE CHICKEN
Burkhard Bilger's cockfighting piece.
- Topic
- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Burkhard Bilger
- Publication
- 2000 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Steven Schiff
- Length
- 49 minutes
HOW TO GET OUT OF A LOCKED TRUNK
Named one of The Best American Short Essays.
- Topic
- Essays
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- Author
- Philip Weiss
- Publication
- Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Paulette Banks
- Length
- 11 minutes
IT COUNTS AS SEEING
A tale of mulitiple perspective and random violence.
- Topic
- Fiction
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- Author
- David Means
- Publication
- 2000 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- June Spence
- Length
- 20 minutes
ITERATIONS OF IMMORTALITY
David Berlinski's discourse on the algorithm and more.
- Topic
- Science and Technology
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- Author
- David Berlinski
- Publication
- 2001 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Jim Weyman
- Length
- 16 minutes
KINGDOM OF APPLES
Picking the fruit of immortality in Washington's laden orchards.
- Topic
- Regional and Travel
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- Author
- David Gutterson
- Publication
- 1999 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 66 minutes
NATURAL LIGHT
Life amoung vermonts hippies, hunters, bears and moose.
- Topic
- Regional and Travel
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- Author
- Edward Hoagland
- Publication
- 1999 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 52 minutes
STILL LIFE
Notes on Pierre Bonnard and my mother's ninetieth birthday.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Mary Gordon
- Publication
- 1999 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 30 minutes
I AM, THEREFORE I THINK
The plight of the body in modern thought.
- Topic
- Essays
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- Author
- Terry Eagleton
- Publication
- 2004 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 23 minutes