Harper's Magazine Archive (2000)

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JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The unfinished twentieth century: What we have forgotten about nuclear weapons by Jonathan Schell Iterations of immortality by David Berlinski Hit Ctrl-I for inspiration by Tom Sawyer and Arthur David Weingarten Use it in a sentencing by Roger W. Miller Fiction Rêve Haitien by Ben Fountain Poetry Coolongolook timber mill by Les A. Murray
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Merit badges by Lewis H. Lapham Field trips by Stuart Dybek All the philosopher king's men by James Warren Havana be your valentine by Fidel Castro Beer and loafing on the campaign trail by David E. Wyatt Fiction Three measures of loneliness by J. Robert Lennon The sun-dog trail by Jack London The paperhanger by William T. Gay Poetry The water inspector by John Ashbery
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Let them eat fat: The heavy truths about American obesity by Greg Critser Goliath by Lewis H. Lapham The faces of ants by Breyten Breytenbach I myself am hell by Daniel Paul Schreber Floating through life on a cloud of love by Brigitte Bardot Fiction Gangster in the rye by Christopher Beamon Typing test by Michael Drake and Dike Blair The fabulous wardrobe of Mrs. Pat Campbell by Justin Haythe Poetry Circe by Carol Ann Duffy Mrs Beast by Carol Ann Duffy
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Maid to order: The politics of other women's work by Barbara Ehrenreich The coming age by Jacques Barzun Only disconnect by Akash Kapur Crossing the bikini line by Ingrid Newkirk and Galen Sherwin Romancing the phone by Ian Frazier Fiction Act by Gordon Lish The fall by Jonathan Franzen The rabbit-pen by Sherwood Anderson Poetry I sing the body dyspeptic by Carl K. Winter
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Notes from underground: Among the radicals of the Pacific Northwest by David Samuels Globalism for dummies by Mark Weisbrot Unto the breach once more? by Ernest F. Hollings The museum of me by Ellen Ullman Fiction All that is solid melts into air by Richard Powers Building Chartres by Jane Avrich
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Hazards of new fortune: Harper's Magazine, then and now by Lewis H. Lapham P.T. Barnum and my great-great-granddad's slaves by Allan Gurganus Fiction The Taiping leaders by Ha Jin Overheard the night of March 21, 1850 by Joanna Scott Small blue thing by Madison Smartt Bell Sources agree rock swoon has no past by Barry Hannah Children of the wind by Primo Levi Poetry The improved man by Kevin Baker Casual wear by James Ingram Merrill Preparation by Czeslaw Milosz
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Running dry: What happens when the world no longer has enough freshwater? by Jacques Leslie Against smoothness by Mark Kingwell An American sensibility by Raoul Middleman Fear of a black jury by Jack McMahon Fiction Brooms by Walker Evans The woodcutter by David Means The vigil by Joyce Carol Oates Poetry Lost in translation by John De Stefano To World War Two by Kenneth Koch
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The Star Wars conspiracy by Theodore A. Postol Conscientious destruction by Angela Zelter I am that I am by Donna Rawlinson Mac Lean Fiction The ones who may kill you in the morning by Mark Nesbitt Poetry Craquelure by Tom Paulin
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles A citizen in full: Ralph Nader campaigns for president with a course in civics by Lewis H. Lapham A world like Santa Barbara by Dave Hickey Smoke 'em if you got 'em by Cheryl Wagner Deep in the heart of Texas by Ricardo Castillo Lara Fiction It counts as seeing by David Means Poetry Unoccupiable I by Paul Celan
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Natural light: Life among Vermont's hippies, hunters, bears, and moose by Edward Hoagland Shapes of courage by William Ian Miller Do that to me one more time by Jamie Hook Digital millennium thought crimes by Martin Garbus Fiction Bow down by Murad Kalam
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles It's not like falling asleep by Robert Murray On Gore and nothingness by Crispin Sartwell What Itchy and Scratchy know by Gerard Jones Citizen Berezovsky by Boris Berezovsky Dope fiends by A.M. (Abraham Michael) Rosenthal and Barry R. McCaffrey Fiction Crimper by William Gay Make a wish by Elizabeth Tippens Poetry Not guilty by Siegfried Sassoon
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Fortune's smile: Betting big at the World Series of Poker by James McManus Messages from the genome by Arthur B. Cody Foreign AIDS crisis by John Robbie All is vanity: Xlibris saves publishing by destroying it by Tom Bissell and Webster Younce Miraculous fishing: Lost in the swamps of Colombia's drug war by Patrick Symmes Fiction Salt by Jane Rogers The future journal by J. Robert Lennon Poetry West Texas visitation by Peter Reading