Harper's Magazine Archive (2001)

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JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Shoals of time: Are we witnessing the extinction of the world's coral reefs? by Julia Whitty The Palestinian question by Alex Shalom and Stephen Rosskamm Shalom My own truth by Nadire Mater Dereliction of Doody by Mark E. Block Narrow ruled by Nicholson Baker Fiction What you know by Peter Ho Davies Poetry Endorse the resurrection by Geoffrey Hill
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The case against Henry Kissinger: Part one by Christopher Hitchens Barbed wire by Reviel Netz Crushes by Paul West Bull-market babies by Pat Smith and Lynn Roney Fiction Bells in the morning by Richard Yates The half-mammals of Dixie by George Singleton
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Sound and fury: The politics of noise in a loud society by Garret Keizer Conventional wisdom by Lewis H. Lapham Paradise misplaced by Svetlana Boym In the woods by Leslie Rubinkowski Of larger darkness by George Steiner Fiction Memory by Marcel Proust The road to meat by Joe Wenderoth She by Jason Brown Poetry You find you can leave it all by Les A. Murray
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Tense present: Democracy, English, and the wars over usage by David Foster Wallace Mirror, mirror on the wall by Lewis H. Lapham Human nature and human rights by Robin Fox Fiction Curly Red by Joyce Carol Oates
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The triumph of expedience: How America lost the election to the courts by Pamela S. Karlan and Richard A. Posner What sweetness was by Michael Pollan Jung M.C. by Don Elligan Just deserter by Eyal Rozenberg Fiction The commemorative by Myla Goldberg Poetry The ships by Constantine Cavafy
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles American playhouse: On politics and the art of acting by Arthur Miller Tomorrow's bird by Ian Frazier The most dangerous game by Dennis Anderson Fiction We huv tae fight tae perty by Irvine Welsh Sabo by Bob Shacochis Poetry As if I'd ceased to be by James Cummins
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Dr. Daedalus: A radical plastic surgeon wants to give you wings by Lauren Slater The boys next door by Lewis H. Lapham Along this rutted path by Czeslaw Milosz Fiction Horton hears a chainsaw by Terri Birkett A small madness by Barry Hannah Etiquette in dark times by Bertolt Brecht Revenge by Steven Millhauser
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The American Rome: On the theory of virtuous empire by Lewis H. Lapham It's what's for dinner by Edward Luttwak As long as there are poppies by Shahla Lahiji Messages on a sandstone bluff by Evan S. Connell Fiction Stick man by Robert Coover Poetry The day the music died by Helen Davies
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Death comes flying by Sven Lindqvist Homeless man interviews himself by Albert Bliss Why we hate teachers: Notes on a noble American tradition by Garret Keizer English 99: Literacy among the ruins by Frank Gannon Fiction No need to starve by Jim Crace Admissions by Mona Simpson Poetry Cloning by Miroslav Holub
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles A Gaza diary: Scenes from the Palestinian uprising by Chris Hedges Understanding ovation by Roger Gilbert Dancer in the dark by Kenneth McGrath Changs and wrens by Eliot Weinberger Fiction All God's children can dance by Haruki Murakami
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Drums along the Potomac: New war, old music by Lewis H. Lapham Brick wall by Charles D'Ambrosio Fiction And then there were ten by I. (Isaak) Babel' I was standing at the back by I. (Isaak) Babel' At the station: A sketch from life by I. (Isaak) Babel' My communist by Ron Hansen Poetry Untitled by Peter Reading
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles In the ruins of the future: Reflections on terror and loss in the shadow of September by Don DeLillo Where there is no common power by John Gray Ecce homo by Gale A. Norton Fiction Prayer against the experts and their ways by Paul Maliszewski The founding of Rome by Salvador Elizondo Love and hydrogen by Jim Shepard Poetry What the general said by Jan Wagner