Queries & Comments

BAR Too Self Referential

I have been pleased to subscribe to BAR for many years, and often tell friends about it. In four years of graduate school, however, I learned to pay close attention to asterisks and footnotes, and I have finally grown sufficiently disgusted to write you. Rarely does an asterisk in your magazine lead to anything that helps me understand the sentence I have just read. Instead you tell me to see previous articles in your magazine, but I don’t keep a file. Please stop disturbing my reading by bragging on yourself.

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Passed-On Copies

I have been looking for your magazine since last year after I bought a copy from a school book sale. It took awhile, but I finally found it. I will now pass my copy on to other interested friends and wait for the next issue.