Harper's Magazine Archive (2005)

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JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Saving Israel from itself: A secular future for the Jewish state by Bernard Avishai Planet of the apes by Richard W. Wrangham Fiction Deep wells, USA by Chris Bachelder Consuming the view by Luigi Malerba Assassin by Najib Mahfuz Poetry Welsh stream by Carol Rumens
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Clone your troubles away: Dreaming at the frontiers of animal husbandry by David Quammen The exception is the rule by Daniel T. Rodgers Thy kingdom come by Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell Life everlasting: The religious right and the right to die by Garret Keizer Fiction Children, cover your eyes by Ben Marcus Down in front by Colson Whitehead Beavers by Arthur Miller
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles AWOL in America: When desertion is the only option by Kathy Dobie The idea of north by Peter Davidson It's going to be a hot one by Terry Connelly A woman's place by Maxwell Knight It's not how they say it is by Yvonne E. (Yvonne Ewing) Keairns Fiction Three novels by Giorgio Manganelli Brad Carrigan, American by George Saunders
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The $4.7 trillion pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street by Michael Hudson When democracy goes wrong by John Lukacs Machete season by Jean Hatzfeld Triumph of the mill by Rudyard Kipling Fiction The wind bloweth where it listeth by Charles Portis A registry of my passage upon the earth by Daniel (Daniel Philippe) Mason Poetry Home care by David Mason
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The measure of our days by Patrik Ouredník One for the flipper by Fred Burks Let there be markets: The evangelical roots of economics by Gordon Bigelow Fiction The municipal abattoir by Tennessee Williams In reference to your recent communications by Tessa Brown Poetry Song of myself by Saparmyrat Turkmenbashy
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Bambi v. Godzilla: Why art loses in Hollywood by David Mamet The inner voice by Denise Riley Habeas corpus by Hussain Abdulkadr Youssouf Mustafa Fiction Summer, with twins by Rebecca Curtis
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The great American pork barrel: Washington streamlines the means of corruption by Ken Silverstein The blue of distance by Rebecca Solnit Mother knows best by Helen Harcombe Fiction Young H saved from infamy by Carole Maso Chance traveler by Haruki Murakami Poetry The narrator by Conor O'Callaghan
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles None dare call it stolen: Ohio, the election, and America's servile press by Mark Crispin Miller The age of aquariums by Ginger Gail Strand Fiction Contributor's note by Michael Martone The disturbing occurrences by Najib Mahfuz
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Still separate, still unequal: America's educational apartheid by Jonathan Kozol Unbreakable wonder by Anwar F. Accawi Fighting for the Supreme Court: How right-wing judges are transforming the Constitution by Cass R. Sunstein Affirmative reaction: When campus Republicans play the diversity card by Stanley Eugene Fish, David Hillel Gelernter, Lani Guinier, and Elizabeth Hoffman Civil obedience by Lewis H. Lapham Fiction AAA plus by Brian Doyle Trample the dead, hurdle the weak by Jim Shepard
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Why experimental fiction threatens to destroy publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and life as we know it: A correction by Ben Marcus The logic of disengagement by Edward Luttwak Sheena is a program manager by Dan Ward and Chris Quaid This is just to pay by Michael Lewis The death of a chair by Doris May Lessing Fiction Chicken Little goes too far by Margaret Eleanor Atwood The tent by Margaret Eleanor Atwood
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles “Don't watch the news”: A Marine's family lives from phone call to phone call by Frederick Busch The professional mourner by Yiwu Liao A few good men by John Carr Fiction In persuasion nation by George Saunders
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Jesus without the miracles: Thomas Jefferson's Bible and the Gospel of Thomas by Erik Reece The combination by Ashley Nelson Winning the peace by Henry Murray Under control by Ian Fishback Soccer imams by Abdallah Al- Najdi Fiction The gold lunch by Ron Carlson Lost in Uttar Pradesh by Evan S. Connell Poetry The station dog by Aruna Kolatakara