Harper's Magazine Archive (2007)

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2007

JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Moby-Duck: Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood by Donovan Hohn It was before words were by Robert Frost Triumph of the shill by André Müller Army of altruists: On the alienated right to do good by David Graeber Fiction Ambient parking lot by Patricia Lu The swim team by Miranda July Poetry Revolution by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Tenderness by Zbigniew Herbert
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The coming robot army: Introducing America's future fighting machines by Steve Featherstone You, screws by Breyten Breytenbach Thank less by Ian Jack Writers' bloc by Serge2 Mikha3lovich Tret'iakov A dunk in the water by Henri Alleg Fiction Addis Ababa, 1977 by Dinaw Mengestu Child's play by Alice Munro Poetry In memoriam: Gillian Rose by Geoffrey Hill
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Parties of God: The Bush doctrine and the rise of Islamic democracy by Ken Silverstein The lord of no man's land: A guided tour through Lebanon's ceaseless war by Charles Glass I was a Chinese internet addict: A tale of modern medicine by McKenzie Funk Fiction Knall by Primo Levi Armies of the net by Wagner James Au Crepuscule with Mickey by Christopher Sorrentino The requirement by Wendell Berry Poetry Reasons for the plague by Eustache Deschamps
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The mirror of life: How Shakespeare conquered the world by Jonathan Bate Driverless by Bernard Avishai The uncontained war by Zbigniew Brzezinski Fiction Colin Kelly's kids by Stanley Elkin Wolf whistle by John Edgar Wideman The wizard of West Orange by Steven Millhauser Poetry Scenes of hell by Billy Collins
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Manufacturing depression: A journey into the economy of melancholy by Gary Greenberg Just the same capitalists as you by Perry Anderson Emergency parking only by Dhiren Barot Into the oblivion by Thomas Lynch Fiction Family means nothing to me by Rebecca Curtis The poor girl by Sigrid Nunez On the show by Wells Tower Poetry Bolshevescent by Peter Gizzi
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Imagine Africa by Breyten Breytenbach Pure product by Binyavanga Wainaina Endgame: Meditations on a diminishing world by Edward Hoagland Fiction Terminix by James Tate The revisionist by Miranda F. Mellis From the desk of Daniel Varsky by Nicole Krauss Poetry The sea by Sophocles
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles In the year of the storm: The topography of resurrection in New Orleans by Duncan Murrell Variations on a mirage by Edward Luttwak The discreet charm of M. Sarkozy by Michel Onfray Fiction Little deaths by Félix Fénéon Why are we in Zefra? by Karl Schroeder Thirteen dreams by Najib Mahfuz Death of the pugilist: Or, the famous battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw by Daniel (Daniel Philippe) Mason Poetry Heidegger's a.m. by Leslie Gottesman
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles A fate worse than Bush: Rudolph Giuliani and the politics of personality by Kevin Baker The idols of environmentalism by Curtis White Meet the author! by Werner Wögerbauer Working grrls by Aphrodite Phoenix Fiction Self-portrait with beach by Frederic Tuten Fiction by Alice Munro Poetry Eden by Ina Rousseau Go ask Alva by Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) Edison She's so cold by Jerry Hall Darkening in the dark by Frederick Seidel Bipolar November by Frederick Seidel
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Cold rush: The coming fight for the melting north by McKenzie Funk The shadow factory by Paul West Get your ass off my pillow by Andrew O'Hagan The writers in the silos by Heidi Julavits Fiction Rehabilitation by Daniil Kharms In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi The proposition by David Bezmozgis Poetry Orpheus by Fergus Allen
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Disaster capitalism: The new economy of catastrophe by Naomi Klein The dangerous book for boys by Mohammed Irman Fiction Admiral by T. Coraghessan Boyle Poetry Rimbaud's journey by Breyten Breytenbach The communist remembers by Breyten Breytenbach
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Making Mitt Romney: How to fabricate a conservative by Ken Silverstein The kindness of strangers by Robin Fox Polar disorder by Nicholas Johnson All that ugly stuff by Hunter S. Thompson Fiction Pandemonium by Donald Barthelme A report on our recent troubles by Steven Millhauser Poetry If the dead came back by Robert Pinsky Self-portrait at twenty years by Roberto Bolaño
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The black box: Inside Iraq's oil machine by Luke Mitchell Hot air gods by Curtis White The mental kitchen by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden Guantanamo baywatch by Edward M. Bush and Clive A. Stafford Smith Fiction Tape measure by Nadine Gordimer Enter the Ford: Lost chapters from A Death in the Family by James Agee Poetry An emblem by Geoffrey Hill Lyric fragment by Geoffrey Hill Nachwort by Geoffrey Hill