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2003
JANUARY
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Sex and the river Styx:
The libido in winter
by
Edward Hoagland
Force and consent
by
Perry Anderson
Craunch the marmoset
by
Pedro Carolino
and
José da Fonseca
Fiction
The project
by
David Means
The hay behind the house
by
Frederick Busch
FEBRUARY
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
A comet's tale:
On the science of apocalypse
by
Tom Bissell
The disappointment artist:
Edward Dahlberg's recipe for crocodile tears
by
Jonathan Lethem
Anxiety, anonymity, amnesia:
Day to day in the nation's capital
by
Wayne Biddle
Fiction
Behold the coach
by
Will Eno
Mother in the trenches
by
Robert Olen Butler
Rocket day
by
Ron Carlson
Poetry
Sheep's Head Gully
by
Mark Ford
MARCH
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
No more unto the breach:
Why war is futile (part one)
by
Jonathan Schell
Where are we?
by
John Berger
Thane in the ass
by
Stuart Usher
Resolved to ruin:
The World Bank/IMF takeover in four easy steps
by
Gregory Palast
Fiction
I look rudimentary
by
Sandra Newman
My kid's dog
by
Ron Hansen
Poetry
Separate truths
by
Charles Simic
APRIL
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The posthuman condition
by
Bill McKibben
Stop spreading the news
by
Fletcher Vredenburgh
Fiction
Ajax is all about attack
by
Jim Shepard
Poetry
Concentricities
by
Tony Whedon
MAY
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The economics of empire:
Notes on the Washington Consensus
by
William Finnegan
Nous sommes tous Americains
by
Régis Debray
Arrow and wound:
The art of almost dying
by
Mark Slouka
We happy few:
The U.S. soldier's laws of war, in principle and in practice
by
Hadley Ross
and
Paul Maliszewski
Fiction
Roman Berman, massage therapist
by
David Bezmozgis
JUNE
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Get rich or get out:
Attempted robbery with a loaded federal budget
by
Thomas Frank
This happens every day
by
Rachel Corrie
Fear itself
by
Michael Bernard Loggins
The difficult poem
by
Charles Bernstein
After the riots
by
James Agee
Fiction
The hotel
by
Robert Walser
Grace
by
Paula Fox
Poetry
Awhile
by
Wislawa Szymborska
The waste land
by
Hart Seely
JULY
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The romance of empire:
And the politics of self-love
by
Thomas de Zengotita
Not in our name
by
Peter Hitchens
And justice for all
by
Zacarias Moussaoui
It's a living
by
Fernand Meyssonnier
and
Jean-Michel Bessette
A gospel according to the earth:
Sown by science, a new eco-faith takes root
by
Jack Hitt
Fiction
This is not a toy
by
Eula Biss
Birthday girl
by
Haruki Murakami
Poetry
Story of a man
by
Alice Oswald
AUGUST
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The American dissident:
Individualism as a matter of conscience
by
Edward Hoagland
The new censorship
by
Curtis White
Don't worry, it's a rental
by
damali ayo
Fiction
The missing man
by
J. Robert Lennon
Mr. Simmons takes a prisoner
by
Deb Olin Unferth
Poetry
Goldfinch
by
Andrew McNeillie
SEPTEMBER
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Against school:
How public education cripples our kids, and why
by
John Taylor Gatto
You can run but you can't hide
by
Sheng'an Wang
Oak wood is strong
by
Wardog
This is my body, have seconds
by
Lionel Poilâne
Fiction
Clause 21
by
Oz Shelach
Family statement
by
Alison Bundy
The moment they were waiting for
by
Ken Kalfus
Poetry
Prayer to the aardwolf
by
Christopher Janke
OCTOBER
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
We're in the army now:
The G.O.P.'s plan to militarize our culture
by
Kevin Baker
The domestic gulag
by
Laura Kipnis
Real simple
by
Janelle Va Melvin
and
Jerri Lyons
Fiction
Marriage
by
Melanie Sumner
The reach of wonder
by
David Coley
Song
by
Stuart Dybek
Poetry
Window to the future
by
Meir Wieseltier
NOVEMBER
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Junk politics:
A voter's guide to the post-literate election
by
Benjamin DeMott
Conditional state
by
Ari Shavit
Bighousekeeping
by
Angelo
Turn on, tune in:
Toward a progressive talk show
by
Thomas de Zengotita
The war business:
Squeezing a profit from the wreckage in Iraq
by
Chalmers A. Johnson
Fiction
Amor perdida
by
Tennessee Williams
The two of them
by
Annie Dillard
DECEMBER
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Big world:
How Clear Channel programs America
by
Jeff Sharlet
Pilgrim's progress
by
Lewis H. Lapham
The spinsters of eld
by
Richard Selzer
Fiction
The year zero
by
Peter Verhelst
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence
by
John Edgar Wideman
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(25)
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(9)
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(69)
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Alberro, Alexander
Alterman, Eric
Arafat, Yasir
Arbus, Diane
Aron, Raymond
Avishai, Bernard
Barnouw, Dagmar
Bender, Frank
Bloomberg, Michael
Boone, Dale
Brando, Marlon
Bray, Barbara
Bush, George W.
Catlin, George
Chalabi, Ahmad
Chopin, Kate
Dahlberg, Edward
Derrida, Jacques
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Ellmann, Richard
Elon, Amos
Feltrinelli, Carlo
Feltrinelli, Giangiacomo
Foster, R.F. (Robert Fitzroy)
Franklin, Benjamin
Frazier, Ian
Furst, Alan
Gallant, Mavis
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Gould, Stephen Jay
Goya, Francisco
Grossman, David
Hemon, Aleksandar
Houellebecq, Michel
Inglis, Alexander James
John Paul II, Pope
Johnson, Samuel
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Knopp, Lisa
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Kooser, Ted
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McPhee, John A.
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Mishra, Pankaj
Morgan, Edmund Sears
Morton, Frederic
Moussaoui, Zacarias
Murch, Walter
Murphy, Tod
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Oz, Amos
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Srodes, James
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Watts, J.C. (Julius Caesar)
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Whittemore, Edward
Wilson, Woodrow
Wolff, Geoffrey
Wynne, Frank
Yeats, W.B. (William Butler)
Zimmermann, Warren
bin Laden, Isama
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The fish's eye: essays about angling and the outdoors (Book)
Frazier, Ian
The nature of home: a lexicon and essays (Book)
Knopp, Lisa
Local wonders: seasons in the Bohemian Alps (Book)
Kooser, Ted
The founding fish (Book)
McPhee, John A.
Feltrinelli: a story of riches, revolution, and violent death (Book)
Feltrinelli, Carlo
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American massacre: the tragedy of Mountain Meadows
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by
Denton, Sally
Another day at the front: dispatches from the race war
(Book)
by
Reed, Ishmael
Backstory: inside the business of news
(Book)
by
Auletta, Ken
Bangkok 8
(Book)
by
Burdett, John
Bay of souls
(Book)
by
Stone, Robert
Benjamin Franklin
(Book)
by
Abbott, John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot)
,
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,
Shepard, Odell
, and
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Benjamin Franklin: an American life
(Book)
by
Isaacson, Walter
Biocosm: the new scientific theory of evolution: intelligent life is the architect of the universe
(Book)
by
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Blood of victory
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Furst, Alan
City room
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by
Gelb, Arthur
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Alberro, Alexander
Cosmopolis
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by
DeLillo, Don
Crabwalk
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by
Grass, Günter
Dark star
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by
Furst, Alan
Dark star safari: overland from Cairo to Cape Town
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Death as a way of life: Israel ten years after Oslo
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by
Grossman, David
Essay on rime with trial of a poet
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Feltrinelli: a story of riches, revolution, and violent death
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by
Feltrinelli, Carlo
First great triumph: how five Americans made their country a world power
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Five shades of shadow
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Franklin: the essential founding father
(Book)
by
Srodes, James
Greek fire, poison arrows & scorpion bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world
(Book)
by
Mayor, Adrienne
Harvard and the unabomber: the education of an American terrorist
(Book)
by
Chase, Alston
Hope dies last: keeping the faith in difficult times
(Book)
by
Terkel, Studs
Invented Eden: the elusive, disputed history of the Tasaday
(Book)
by
Hemley, Robin
Jericho mosaic
(Book)
by
Whittemore, Edward
Jerusalem poker
(Book)
by
Whittemore, Edward
Kate Chopin: complete novels and stories
(Book)
by
Chopin, Kate
and
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Kingdom of shadows
(Book)
by
Furst, Alan
Literary occasions: essays
(Book)
by
Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
and
Mishra, Pankaj
Living to tell the tale
(Book)
by
García Márquez, Gabriel
Local wonders: seasons in the Bohemian Alps
(Book)
by
Kooser, Ted
Lost in America: a journey with my father
(Book)
by
Nuland, Sherwin B.
Love
(Book)
by
Payne, Robert
,
Morrison, Toni
,
Michelet, Jules
, and
Olesha, IUrii Karlovich
Marianne in chains: everyday life in the French heartland under the German occupation
(Book)
by
Gildea, Robert
Mirror mirror: a history of the human love affair with reflection
(Book)
by
Pendergrast, Mark
My times: a memoir of dissent
(Book)
by
Hess, John E.
Naipaul's strangers
(Book)
by
Barnouw, Dagmar
Naked in Baghdad
(Book)
by
Garrels, Anne
Night soldiers
(Book)
by
Furst, Alan
Nile shadows
(Book)
by
Whittemore, Edward
The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry
(Book)
by
Ellmann, Richard
,
Ramazani, Jahan
, and
O'Clair, Robert
Nowhere man
(Book)
by
Hemon, Aleksandar
On the natural history of destruction
(Book)
by
Sebald, Winfried Georg
Paris in mind
(Book)
by
Lee, Jennifer
Paris stories
(Book)
by
Gallant, Mavis
Platform
(Book)
by
Houellebecq, Michel
and
Wynne, Frank
The Polish officer
(Book)
by
Furst, Alan
Politics of war
(Book)
by
Karp, Walter
Primo Levi
(Book)
by
Thomson, Ian
Principles of secondary education
(Book)
by
Inglis, Alexander James
Real spaces
(Book)
by
Summers, David
Red gold
(Book)
by
Furst, Alan
Revelations
(Book)
by
Arbus, Diane
River of shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west
(Book)
by
Solnit, Rebecca
Searching for lost city: on the trail of America's native languages
(Book)
by
Seay, Elizabeth
Selected poems
(Book)
by
Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert)
,
Pound, Ezra
,
Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
,
Moss, Howard
,
Campbell, Roy
,
Duncan, Robert Edward
,
Shapiro, Karl Jay
,
Brecht, Bertolt
,
Williams, William Carlos
,
Sitwell, Sacheverell
,
Graham, W.S. (William Sydney)
,
Walcott, Derek
, and
Fitzell, Lincoln
Sinai tapestry
(Book)
by
Whittemore, Edward
Somersault
(Book)
by
Oe, Kenzaburo
Survivors in Mexico
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by
West, Rebecca, Dame
Turning the wheel: essays on Buddhism and writing
(Book)
by
Johnson, Charles Richard
W.B. Yeats: a life, II. The arch-poet
(Book)
by
Foster, R.F. (Robert Fitzroy)
Waugh abroad: collected travel writing
(Book)
by
Waugh, Evelyn
What liberal media? The truth about bias and the news
(Book)
by
Alterman, Eric
Where I was from
(Book)
by
Didion, Joan
The art of burning bridges: a life of John O'Hara
(Book)
by
Wolff, Geoffrey
The best business stories of the year
(Book)
by
Leckey, Andrew
and
Sloan, Allan
The book against God
(Book)
by
James Wood
The book of spies
(Book)
by
Furst, Alan
The broken estate: essays on literature and belief
(Book)
by
James Wood
The commissariat of enlightenment
(Book)
by
Kalfus, Ken
The conversations: Walter Murch and the art of editing film
(Book)
by
Ondaatje, Michael
The dawn of universal history: selected essays from a witness to the twentieth century
(Book)
by
Aron, Raymond
and
Bray, Barbara
The face in the mirror: the search for the origins of consciousness
(Book)
by
Keenan, Julian Paul
,
Gallup, Gordon G.
, and
Falk, Dean
The fifth book of peace
(Book)
by
Kingston, Maxine Hong
The fish's eye: essays about angling and the outdoors
(Book)
by
Frazier, Ian
The founding fish
(Book)
by
McPhee, John A.
The gate
(Book)
by
Bizot, François
The girl from the Fiction Department: a portrait of Sonia Orwell
(Book)
by
Spurling, Hilary
A history of the guillotine
(Book)
by
Kershaw, Alister
The hooligan's return: a memoir
(Book)
by
Manea, Norman
A hundred little Hitlers: the death of a black man, the trial of a white racist, and the rise of the neo-Nazi movement in America
(Book)
by
Langer, Elinor
The nature of home: a lexicon and essays
(Book)
by
Knopp, Lisa
The pieces from Berlin
(Book)
by
Pye, Michael
The pity of it all: a history of Jews in Germany
(Book)
by
Elon, Amos
The serenity prayer: faith and politics in times of peace and war
(Book)
by
Sifton, Elisabeth
The structure of evolutionary theory
(Book)
by
Gould, Stephen Jay
The time of our singing
(Book)
by
Powers, Richard
The tragedy of Zionism: how its revolutionary past haunts Israeli democracy
(Book)
by
Avishai, Bernard
A tragic honesty: the life and work of Richard Yates
(Book)
by
Bailey, Blake
The world at night
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by
Furst, Alan
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A comet's tale:
On the science of apocalypse
by
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February 2003
, 16 pp.
2
The economics of empire:
Notes on the Washington Consensus
by
William Finnegan
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May 2003
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3
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Sown by science, a new eco-faith takes root
by
Jack Hitt
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July 2003
, 15 pp.
4
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Why war is futile (part one)
by
Jonathan Schell
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April 2003
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The G.O.P.'s plan to militarize our culture
by
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October 2003
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September 2003
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Get rich or get out:
Attempted robbery with a loaded federal budget
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Thomas Frank
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June 2003
, 11 pp.
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July 2003
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August 2003
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May 2003
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The romance of empire:
And the politics of self-love
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Thomas de Zengotita
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July 2003
, 10 pp.
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by
Jeff Sharlet
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December 2003
, 10 pp.
18
Common ground:
Finding our way back to the Enlightenment
by
Thomas de Zengotita
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January 2003
, 10 pp.
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Junk politics:
A voter's guide to the post-literate election
by
Benjamin DeMott
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November 2003
, 10 pp.
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The American dissident:
Individualism as a matter of conscience
by
Edward Hoagland
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August 2003
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