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September 2007

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Teun Hocks SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Capitalists and financiers; Icebergs PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Their men in Washington, from July 2007: Letter By B. Jay Cooper Letter By Kathy Cripps Letter By Ken Silverstein On Detroit arcadia, from July 2007: Letter By Christopher Cherney On State of exception, from July 2007: Letter By Alexander D. Barder Letter By Scott Horton PDF IMAGES
8-13	Notebook/Article Flies in amber By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: A history of warfare (Book); Scowcroft, Brent; Congresses; Foreign public opinion; Bush, George W. (George Walker); Kissinger, Henry; Influence; Iraq War, 2003-; Mueller, John E.; Keegan, John; Military art and science; Military leadership; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Politics and war; The remnants of war (Book); Views on war; World politics; Brzezinski, Zbigniew PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-21	Readings/Article The shadow factory By Paul West SEE ALSO: Aphasia; Aphasic persons PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Poetry Orpheus By Fergus Allen PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Art/illustration Tirana By Jin Meyerson SEE ALSO: Construction and demolition debris; Construction industry PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article A terrible thing to waste By Ted Dewan SEE ALSO: Career as curator of Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford, England); Human remains (Archaeology); Peers, Laura L. (Laura Lynn); Oxford; Wills PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Get your ass off my pillow By Andrew O'Hagan SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Hemingway, Ernest; Interviews; Mailer, Norman PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Collection Readings By David Stephenson (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Dome #27002, San Lorenzo, Turin, Italy, 1996 By David Stephenson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Domes; Turin PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Dome #22302, Sala de los Abencerrajes, Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 1997 By David Stephenson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Alhambra (Granada, Spain); Domes; Granada PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Dome #40806, Catedral, Sigüenza, Spain, 2003 By David Stephenson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cathedrals; Domes PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Dome #20106, SantIvo alla Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 1997 By David Stephenson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Domes; Rome PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article She still belonged to him SEE ALSO: Turkey PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Fiction Rehabilitation By Daniil Kharms and Matvei Yankelevich (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The writers in the silos By Heidi Julavits SEE ALSO: Agriculture, Cooperative; Authors and readers; Collaboration; Conglomerate corporations; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Art/illustration View of study room with books, desk and window (two parts) By Robert Longo SEE ALSO: Austria; Dwellings; Home offices; Homes and haunts—Pictorial works; Freud, Sigmund; Vienna PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article The handmaid's tool By Margaret Eleanor Atwood SEE ALSO: Authors; Autographs; Atwood, Margaret Eleanor PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction In the United States of Africa By Abdourahman A. Waberi PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article The red and the black SEE ALSO: Civil rights; Civil rights and socialism; Civil rights movements; Communism; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article I know what you read last summer By Ursula K. Le Guin SEE ALSO: Authors; Canon (Literature); Fiction genres; Literature; Chabon, Michael; Views on genre fiction—Humor PDF IMAGES
32-33	Readings/Article Why don't you change your life? SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Weinstein, Kathleen; LaSane, Michael; Murderers; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Murder) PDF IMAGES
33-35	Readings/Article Autonauts of the cosmoroute By Julio Cortázar, Carol Dunlop, and Anne McLean (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Ants; Automobile driving on highways; Dunlop, Carol; Dreams; Express highways; Cortázar, Julio; Travel—France; Urine PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Art/illustration Salida VI By Luis E. Camejo PDF IMAGES
36-44	Article Schoolhouse crock: Fifty years of blaming America's educational system for our stupidity By Peter Schrag SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Educational change; Educational law and legislation; Politics and education; Privatization in education; Public schools; United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 PDF IMAGES
45-55	Article Cold rush: The coming fight for the melting north By McKenzie Funk SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Canada, Northern; Global warming; Military policy; Northwest passage; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
56-65	Article The summer of our discontent: An ode to sleepaway camp By Rich Cohen SEE ALSO: Biography; Bullying; Camps; Cohen, Rich PDF IMAGES
66-72	Collection Across the Bosphorus: photographs from Turkey By Peter Turnley (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Flags; Istanbul; Markets; Turkey PDF IMAGES
67	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fatih Mosque (Istanbul, Turkey); Istanbul; Turkey PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cocktail parties; Istanbul; Turkey PDF IMAGES
68	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Circumcision; Costume; Istanbul; Turkey PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Military funerals; Turkey; Uniforms PDF IMAGES
69	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fatih Mosque (Istanbul, Turkey); Istanbul; Prayer; Turkey PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Barbershops; Atatürk, Kemal; Pictorial works; Turkey PDF IMAGES
70	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Kurds; Milking; Sheep; Turkey PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fishing; Marmara, Sea of; Turkey PDF IMAGES
71	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Career as prime minister—Pictorial works; Political participation; Erdogan, Recep Tayyip; Turkey; Women, Kurdish PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Ferries; Istanbul; Turkey PDF IMAGES
72	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Boats and boating; Harbors; Marmara, Sea of; Rowing; Turkey PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Istanbul; Street-railroads; Turkey PDF IMAGES
73-79	Article There is no east: Reading Orhan Pamuk By Christopher De Bellaigue SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Pamuk, Orhan; Pictorial works; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
80-84	Fiction The proposition By David Bezmozgis PDF IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Broyard, Bliss; Berger, Brian; End games (Book); Fénéon, Félix; Sante, Luc; Berman, Marshall; Dibdin, Michael; New York calling: from blackout to Bloomberg (Book); Novels in three lines (Book); One drop: a true story of family, race, and secrets (Book) PDF IMAGES
87-91	Review Lust and disgust: A short history of prudery, feminist and otherwise By Laura Kipnis SEE ALSO: Dworkin, Andrea; Girls gone mild: young women reclaim self-respect and find it's not bad to be good (Book); Intercourse (Book); Stepp, Laura Sessions; Sexual behavior; Unhooked: how young women pursue sex, delay love and lose at both (Book); Shalit, Wendy PDF IMAGES
92-98	Review Last things: The sinister charm of Frederick Seidel By Benjamin Kunkel SEE ALSO: American poetry; Seidel, Frederick; Ooga-Booga (Book); Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Abecedarian jigsaw By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
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MR. FISH
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Paul Gleason	Sep 23
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Sep 18
Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Sep 4
Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Sep 25
Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Sep 11

By Ken Silverstein

El Pais on Bush, Aznar, and Iraq	10:14 AM Sep 26
Bogus Azeri ‘Human Rights Group’ Comes to Washington	11:44 AM Sep 17
Speaking from Experience: a former CIA official on the Sunni alliance	1:36 PM Sep 4
Speaking From Experience, Part II: Former CIA official expects war with Iran	6:14 PM Sep 4
Giuliani Advisor: Raze Palestinian Villages	7:57 AM Sep 14
Burma, Gay Republicans, and Google: the DCI connection	8:15 PM Sep 27
Six Questions for Kim Long on the History of Political Sleaze	8:05 AM Sep 14
The Case of Monsieur Debat: Scammer was working on Pentagon report	11:18 AM Sep 19
Video of the Day: Skull, Bones and Electricity	10:34 AM Sep 18
New Media Gets the Message	11:06 AM Sep 18
Congress: The most dangerous neighborhood in America	3:33 PM Sep 25
Bogus Human Rights Group Objects to Being Called Bogus Human Rights Group	5:16 PM Sep 20
Dave Petraeus is God (Or Merely a White House Flunky)	1:50 PM Sep 12
Jerry Burke on Iraq’s Corrupt Police Force	3:50 PM Sep 11
Something Other Than Democracy (Updated)	9:16 AM Sep 5

Brontë on Convention and Morality	7:27 AM Sep 6
Böhme on Time and Eternity	Sep 4
Keynes and Burke on the Unpredictability of War	Sep 11
Conrad on Betrayal	Sep 3
Tolstoy on the Parade of Human Vanities	Sep 12
The Jupiter, Reborn	12:12 AM Sep 1
‘Can’t Win With ‘Em, Can’t Go to War Without ‘Em’: Six Questions for P.W. Singer	12:02 AM Sep 30
Schiller’s ‘The Hostage’	1:33 AM Sep 16
Samuel on the Curse of Kings	Sep 14
The Return of Willie Stark	6:36 AM Sep 21
Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’	8:22 AM Sep 10
Melville on American Exceptionalism	Sep 2
Hesse’s ‘In the Fog’	7:25 AM Sep 22
In Alabama, the Smoke of an Emerging Scandal	12:28 PM Sep 23
Hesse’s World-Historical Vision	7:21 AM Sep 28
Justice in Mississippi	12:01 AM Sep 18
Cheney’s New War Plans	7:09 AM Sep 24
Chesterfield on the Proclivities of Little Minds	Sep 15
Rising Up for Justice	7:40 AM Sep 23
Gogol describes the Inspector General’s Mission	7:21 AM Sep 7
Virgil’s ‘Eclogue IV’	12:09 AM Sep 13
A Protection Racket	2:04 PM Sep 26
Truth and Fidelity, in a Ballad	1:36 AM Sep 16
A Politicized Military?	8:13 AM Sep 1
The Unpredictable Past of George W. Bush	9:36 PM Sep 6
Seneca on the Crimes of War	6:10 AM Sep 26
A Taste of Things to Come	7:36 AM Sep 12
The Bush-Aznar Conversation	5:40 AM Sep 27
The ‘Special Relationship’ on the Rocks	9:47 AM Sep 2
U.S. Attorneys Scandal–Los Angeles and San Diego	3:12 PM Sep 7
Jeremiah on the Leaders Who Betray Us	Sep 30
Virgil on the Laws of War	Sep 13
Benjamin’s Second Historical Thesis and Hofmannsthal’s ‘On the Transitory’	12:02 AM Sep 5
Leura Canary’s Stonewalling is Exposed	4:01 PM Sep 10
Greenspan’s Judgment	9:59 AM Sep 16
Unamuno on Reason and Right in the Struggle	Sep 25
Another Political Prosecution in Michigan?	12:16 PM Sep 2
Hofmannsthal’s ‘On the Transitory: I-IV’	12:02 AM Sep 5
The Next War	8:11 AM Sep 12
U.S. Attorneys Scandal–Milwaukee	8:06 AM Sep 7
Bait and Switch in the Attorney General’s Office	10:46 AM Sep 19
Varnhagen on Speaking Truth	Sep 22
There’s No News in the ‘Birmingham News’	7:20 PM Sep 10
The State Secrets (Public Corruption) Exception	12:13 AM Sep 1
Hemingway on the Politics of War	Sep 17
Shooting an Elephant	12:02 AM Sep 11
The New Rollout	11:02 AM Sep 1
Osama bin Forgotten	12:31 PM Sep 10
Welty on the Writer’s Eye	Sep 29
Sam Adams Award to Sam Provance	2:42 PM Sep 21
Hutcheson on Human Happiness	5:17 AM Sep 27
Novus Ordo Seclorum	12:10 AM Sep 13
The Federal Prosecutor: A calling betrayed	8:21 AM Sep 8
Blackwater Down	8:09 AM Sep 28
Marlowe—Prelude to the Next War	Sep 1
Diderot the Romantic	Sep 16
Benjamin on the Philosophy of History	Sep 5
Exposing a Corrupt Prosecution and Trial in Alabama	1:48 PM Sep 10
Laozi on the Essence of Good Government	Sep 24
Burma in Agony	5:45 AM Sep 27
The DOJ ‘Voter Fraud’ Fraud Marches On	12:08 PM Sep 12
The Unfinished Story of Abu Ghraib	12:09 PM Sep 1
Tracking Political Prosecutions	8:12 AM Sep 22
Terence on Caring for Humanity	Sep 10
Of Two Minds About the Filibuster	7:37 AM Sep 20
Rabelais on Science and Conscience	Sep 21
The Next War	6:56 AM Sep 17
Politicians and the Military	10:00 AM Sep 14
Media Alert	3:35 PM Sep 9
U.S. Attorneys Scandal–Minneapolis	4:40 PM Sep 18
More from the World of the ‘Bama Press	5:06 PM Sep 22
The Floundering Department of Justice	11:12 AM Sep 8
Media Alert	3:08 PM Sep 21
Wilberforce on Politics and Principle	Sep 18
Pope Benedict Snubs Condoleezza Rice	12:57 PM Sep 20
‘Betraying Our Troops:’ Six Questions for Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman	2:28 PM Sep 11
Team Chertoff and the Art of Political Prosecution	12:15 AM Sep 5
Media Alert	11:27 AM Sep 23
The Alice Martin Perjury Inquiry	2:14 PM Sep 8
Melville, ‘White-Jacket’ and Military Justice	8:40 AM Sep 2
Confirm Michael Mukasey	11:32 AM Sep 17
The ‘B’ham News’ Revs Up the Slime Machine	11:59 AM Sep 15
Terror Arrests in Germany	11:28 AM Sep 5
Alerta de prensa	6:12 AM Sep 26
Pascal on the Rapport between Justice and Force	Sep 23
The War President Settles on a New War	11:50 AM Sep 4
Heine’s ‘The Gods of Greece’	10:09 AM Sep 29
The Benczkowski-Siegelman Letter	8:29 AM Sep 13
The Pakistan Conundrum	10:43 AM Sep 11
Keller on the Wonder and Limitations of Democracy	6:55 AM Sep 20
Toobin’s Supremes	2:37 PM Sep 20
Jackson on the Prosecutor’s Calling	Sep 9
A Letter to the Editors of the Washington Post	1:18 PM Sep 7
Department of Election Frauds	5:18 PM Sep 18
The King of Political Prosecutions	6:57 AM Sep 17
Fredo’s Last Day	3:00 PM Sep 14
General Hayden Flunks an Interrogation Test	10:10 AM Sep 9
Listen to the General(s)	8:20 AM Sep 25
Saadi: ‘The Tyrant’s Reward’	6:09 AM Sep 19
The Inside Track to Contracts in Alabama	10:13 AM Sep 3
The Michael V. Drake Affair	9:33 AM Sep 15
Heine and the Battle of the Gods	11:39 AM Sep 29
Keats’s ‘The Human Seasons’	7:01 AM Sep 25
Aristotle on Tyrants and War	Sep 19
The Remarkable ‘Recusal’ of Leura Canary	12:04 AM Sep 14
Farewell to Fredo—the View South of the Border	4:26 PM Sep 1
Media Alert	2:28 PM Sep 11
Diderot on the Philosopher as a Musical Instrument	7:24 AM Sep 8
Varnhagen on Speaking Truth	Sep 22

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	7:52 AM Sep 21
A Cartoon	12:41 PM Sep 7
A Cartoon	8:13 AM Sep 14
A Cartoon	9:01 PM Sep 28
A Cartoon	12:45 PM Sep 12

The Shock Doctrine: A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein	6:00 PM Sep 11
Upcoming Event–Discussion with Harper’s Publisher John R. MacArthur	1:55 PM Sep 24
Blackwater Remains Above the Law By Daphne Eviatar	6:00 PM Sep 21
Six Questions for Greg Grandin on Che’s Legacy By Bernie Becker	6:29 PM Sep 30

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