Harper's Magazine Archive (2008)

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JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The god of the desert: Jerusalem and the ecology of monotheism by Richard Rodriguez Hearts of gold by Lewis H. Lapham The second time as FARC by Tanja Nijmeijer Fiction My Fanon project by John Edgar Wideman The great talent by Robert Walser A failure of concern by Ben Marcus Poetry I met a seducer by Grace Paley
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash by Eric Janszen Resistance is surrender by Slavoj Zizek The things they ate by Arkady Babchenko Fiction The compliance branch by David Foster Wallace ELF-CIO by Mirta Narosky Is that you, Sister Marguerite? by Marguerite Duras Wars in distant lands by Najm Wali Poetry Patent pending by Hugo Williams
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Beltway bacchanal: Congress lives high on the contributor's dime by Ken Silverstein Mudville by Lewis H. Lapham The mortician by Yiwu Liao A corpse to stand on by Alexander Stewart Fiction Luz Mendiluce Thompson by Roberto Bolaño The ecstasy of Alfred Russel Wallace by Daniel (Daniel Philippe) Mason Poetry Sixteen by Sándor Márai
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Contagious cancer: The evolution of a killer by David Quammen The evidence of things not seen by David Berlinski The destiny of Borges by Tomás Abraham, Alejandro Rússovich, and Enrique Eduardo Marí Portrait of a masked man by John Berger Fiction Sprawl by Danielle Dutton Twenty-two stories by Paul Theroux Poetry Encyclopedia of horror by Charles Simic Red fog by Leonard Schwartz
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Numbers racket: Why the economy is worse than we know by Kevin P. Phillips A great amnesia by Marilynne Robinson Elementary school by Édouard Launet My metaphor weighs tons by William Davies King Fiction The death of Lazarus Averbuch by Aleksandar Hemon The next thing by Steven Millhauser Poetry The utopian wars by Thomas Lux Boys by Frederick Seidel

BY TYPE

BY DEPARTMENT

PEOPLE DISCUSSED

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud

Arias Sánchez, Oscar

Ashenburg, Katherine

Babchenko, Arkady

Bolívar, Simón

Borges, Jorge Luis

Boucher, Robert

Brandes, Bernd-Jürgen

Bush, George W.

Corcoran, Lorelei Hilda

Friedman, Benjamin M.

Funkhouser, Mark

Giraldo, Hernán

Gordimer, Nadine

Hawass, Zahi A.

Hofmann, Michael

Houellebecq, Michel

Marcos, subcomandante

Marlowe, Christopher

Moreno Arteaga, María Concepción

Muñoz-Furlong, Anne

Patriquin, Travis

Schlesinger, Andrew

Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)

Schlesinger, Stephen

Schmidt, Michael

Scholem, Gershom Gerhard

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

Sebald, Winfried Georg

Shapiro, Fred R.

Skinner, Anthony David

Smith, Virginia (Virginia Sarah)

Taylor, Charles

Walters, Wendy S.

TOP SUBJECTS

Iraq War, 2003-

Bush, George W.

Hofmann, Michael

Borges, Jorge Luis

Patriquin, Travis

Communicable diseases

Marcos, subcomandante

Moreno Arteaga, María Concepción

Schmidt, Michael

The dirt on clean: an unsanitized history (Book)

Ashenburg, Katherine

Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity (Book)

Smith, Virginia (Virginia Sarah)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Alfred Kazin: a biography (Book) by Cook, Richard M.

Beethoven was one-sixteenth black and other stories (Book) by Gordimer, Nadine

Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity (Book) by Smith, Virginia (Virginia Sarah)

Deep economy: the wealth of communities and the durable future (Book) by McKibben, Bill

Diary of a bad year (Book) by Coetzee, J.M.

Fanon (Book) by Wideman, John Edgar

Five years of my life: an innocent man in Guantanamo (Book) by Kurnaz, Murat

Geary's guide to the worlds great aphorists (Book) by Geary, James

God's crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215 (Book) by Lewis, David Levering

Havanas in Camelot: personal essays (Book) by Styron, William

Homecoming (Book) by Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy) and Schlink, Bernhard

Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: a biography (Book) by Manguel, Alberto

Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (Book) by Lenin, Vladimir Ily`ich

In the shadow of the magic mountain: the Erika and Klaus Mann story (Book) by Weiss, Andrea

Journals: 1952-2000 (Book) by Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier) , Schlesinger, Andrew , and Schlesinger, Stephen

Lamentations of youth: the diaries of Gershom Scholem, 1913-1919 (Book) by Skinner, Anthony David and Scholem, Gershom Gerhard

Mad, bad, and sad: women and the mind doctors (Book) by Appignanesi, Lisa

Maps and legends: essays on reading and writing along the borderlands (Book) by Chabon, Michael

Night train to Lisbon (Book) by Mercier, Pascal

The Oxford book of aphorisms (Book) by Gross, John J.

Prague in danger: the years of German occupation, 1939-45—memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war (Book) by Demetz, Peter

Secularism confronts Islam (Book) by Roy, Olivier and Holoch, George

Tragical history of Doctor Faustus (Book) by Marlowe, Christopher

Walter Benjamin (Book) by Leslie, Esther

The Yale book of quotations (Book) by Shapiro, Fred R.

The Zürau aphorisms of Franz Kafka (Book) by Kafka, Franz and Hofmann, Michael

The age of abundance: how prosperity transformed America's politics and culture (Book) by Lindsey, Brink

The dirt on clean: an unsanitized history (Book) by Ashenburg, Katherine

The emergence of memory: conversations with W.G. Sebald (Book) by Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

The moral consequences of economic growth (Book) by Friedman, Benjamin M.

The painter of battles (Book) by Pérez-Reverte, Arturo

The pathseeker (Book) by Kertész, Imre

The reserve (Book) by Banks, Russell

A secular age (Book) by Taylor, Charles

The several lives of Joseph Conrad (Book) by Stape, J.H. (John Henry)

The stillborn god: religion, politics, and the modern West (Book) by Lilla, Mark

The stone gods (Book) by Winterson, Jeanette

The translator: a tribesman's memoir of Darfur (Book) by Hari, Daoud

The voyage that never ends: fictions, poems, fragments, letters (Book) by Lowry, Malcolm and Hofmann, Michael

The world in a phrase: a brief history of the aphorism (Book) by Geary, James

Featured
Items

1

Confessions of a lapsed forest Christian

by Donovan Hohn
Article, April 2008, 14 pp.

2

The battle of ideas:

Searching for the opposition in post-Fidel Cuba

by Patrick Symmes
Article, May 2008, 13 pp.

3

The god of the desert:

Jerusalem and the ecology of monotheism

by Richard Rodriguez
Article, January 2008, 13 pp.

4

A journey through the American cloaca

by Frederick Kaufman
Article, February 2008, 12 pp.

5

Contagious cancer:

The evolution of a killer

by David Quammen
Article, April 2008, 11 pp.

6

Mississippi drift:

River vagrants in the age of Wal-Mart

by Matthew Power
Article, March 2008, 10 pp.

7

The mummy's curse:

An archaeological dispute

by Gregory Jaynes
Article, January 2008, 10 pp.

8

Twenty-two stories

by Paul Theroux
Fiction, April 2008, 9 pp.

9

by Steven Millhauser
Fiction, May 2008, 9 pp.

10

How Republicans hacked the Justice Department

by Scott Horton
Article, March 2008, 9 pp.

11

Go before you die:

A road trip through the “new” Colombia

by Patrick Graham
Article, February 2008, 9 pp.

12

The revolution will not be pasteurized:

Inside the raw-milk underground

by Nathanael Johnson
Article, April 2008, 8 pp.

13

Faustian economics:

Hell hath no limits

by Wendell Berry
Article, May 2008, 8 pp.

14

Beltway bacchanal:

Congress lives high on the contributor's dime

by Ken Silverstein
Article, March 2008, 8 pp.

15

Lonely in America:

Contemplating the remains of slavery

by Wendy S. Walters
Article, March 2008, 8 pp.

16

The next bubble:

Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash

by Eric Janszen
Article, February 2008, 8 pp.

17

Cemetery of hope:

Brasília at fifty

by Benjamin Moser
Article, January 2008, 8 pp.

18

A failure of concern

by Ben Marcus
Fiction, January 2008, 8 pp.

19

Where will Iraq go next?

by Deborah Campbell
Article, April 2008, 7 pp.

20

Irrational man:

Gershom Scholem's decisive years

by Paul Reitter
Review, May 2008, 7 pp.