Harper's Magazine Archive (2006)

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JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Improvised, explosive, & divisive: Searching in vain for a strategy in Iraq by Tom Bissell We are the champions by James F. English It's what's for dinner by Hannah Thomas Fiction Fourteen feet of water in my house by Allan Gurganus Poetry Q by Michael McFee
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Judgment days: Lessons from the Abu Ghraib courts-martial by JoAnn Wypijewski Red Inc. by Ye Sang Extraordinary rendition by Khaled El-Masri Man in the moon by Bill Capossere Fiction Borscht by Lara Vapnyar
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The case for impeachment: Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush by Lewis H. Lapham Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb by David Luban I'm hatin' it by Davina Patel A matter of practice by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and Thoby Stephen Fiction All that glass by Kate Hendry Question 62 by T. Coraghessan Boyle Poetry Zeus bits by Anne Carson
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles American coup d'etat: Military thinkers discuss the unthinkable by A.J. Bacevich, Charles J., Jr. Dunlap, Richard H. Kohn, and Edward N. Luttwak A natural history of peace by Robert M. Sapolsky Jacques Crow by J.A. Linard Mission to Mars by Guy Consolmagno Fiction The clockmaker by Robert Louis Stevenson The gulch by David Means
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The new road to serfdom: An illustrated guide to the coming real estate collapse by Michael Hudson Blue guitar by Lewis H. Lapham A carnivore's credo by Roger Scruton Highly effective Messiah by Gregg F. Martin Fiction A change of fashion by Steven Millhauser Poetry Improvisations for Hart Crane by Geoffrey Hill
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Drawing blood: Outrageous cartoons and the art of outrage by Art Spiegelman Duck and cover by Jonathan Trouern-Trend Dearest bug by Martha Gellhorn Stabbed in the back! The past and future of a right-wing myth by Kevin Baker Fiction Darkness at seven by Will Eno The American boyfriend by Hwawon Lim Within rigid limits by Christian Bök The little boy by Mary Gaitskill
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Godot for it by Stephen Brown Hallowed be your name by Marilynne Robinson Breaking the chain: The antitrust case against Wal-Mart by Barry C. Lynn Fiction Happyland (part I) by J. Robert Lennon Poetry To the world's end by Sappho
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Imagine there's no oil: Scenes from a liberal apocalypse by Bryant Urstadt Did somebody say genocide? by Gérard Prunier Right off the end forever by Spalding Gray Fiction Happyland (part II) by J. Robert Lennon August by Mark Slouka Poetry Barbados by Frederick Seidel
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Grand theft education: Literacy in the age of video games by Thomas de Zengotita, Jane Avrich, Raph Koster, and Steven Johnson The light of Muhammad by Eliot Weinberger First-person shooters by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris His prerogative by Kola Boof Fiction Happyland (part III) by J. Robert Lennon Poetry Colonoscopy by John Updike My Iraq war by Lynn Chu
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The way out of war: A blueprint for leaving Iraq now by George S. (George Stanley) McGovern and William Roe Polk The poor man's air force by Mike Davis Discipline and punish by Shimon Naveh Fiction Anarchists cook by Mark Binelli Patrols by Frederick Busch Happyland (part IV) by J. Robert Lennon Poetry It is what it is by Paul Muldoon
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Barack Obama Inc.: The birth of a Washington machine by Ken Silverstein Children of the revolution by Mark Greif Starship trooper by James C., III McLane Fiction Fletcher Knowles by Lee Siegel Sans farine by Jim Shepard Poetry Keep dreaming by Samuel Beckett
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Through a glass, darkly: How the Christian right is reimagining U.S. history by Jeff Sharlet The riven atom by George Weller The boys from Brazil by Arnaldo Jabor Fiction Self defense by Matt Charman Kinderscenen by John Updike