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CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS
Illustration
Moses and the burning bush (detail)
See also:
Moses (Biblical leader)
PDF
IMAGES
6 - 10
Letters/Department
Letters
On “
Disaster capitalism
” from
October 2007
:
Letter
by
Diana Fassino
and
p. 10).
On “
A lie that tells the truth
” from
November 2007
:
Letter
by
Paul West
Letter
by
Tom Wolfe
Letter
by
Luc Sante
Letter
by
Lee Gutkind
Letter
by
Lauren Slater
PDF
IMAGES
11 - 13
Notebook/Article
Hearts of gold
by
Lewis H. Lapham
See also:
Career in politics
;
Democracy
;
Janklow, Mort
;
2008
;
Representative government and representation
PDF
IMAGES
15
Harper's index/Department
Harper's index
PDF
IMAGES
17 - 20
Readings/Fiction
My Fanon project
by
John Edgar Wideman
PDF
IMAGES
19
Readings/Illustration
D.48 The garden at Vaucluse House, Sydney
by
Gary Carsley
See also:
Australia
;
Gardens
PDF
IMAGES
20 - 23
Readings/Article
Nightmare on 53rd Street
See also:
Art and the war
;
Exhibitions
;
Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York)
PDF
IMAGES
22
Readings/Article
Little-read book
See also:
Books and reading
;
Campbell Soup Company
;
Capitalism
;
Capitalists and financiers
;
Coca-Cola Company
;
Collection development
;
Imperialism
;
Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
(Book)
;
International business enterprises
;
Records and correspondence
;
Lenin, Vladimir Ily`ich
;
Fiks, Yevgeniy
PDF
IMAGES
23
Readings/Illustration
Arrangement of salts and metals by property
by
Leslie Shows
See also:
Biodegradation
;
Environmental aspects
;
Metals
;
Mineral industries
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Fiction
The great talent
by
Damion Searls
(Trans.) and
Robert Walser
PDF
IMAGES
24 - 26
Readings/Article
The budget stripped bare
See also:
Büchel, Christoph
;
Copyright
;
Correspondence
;
Exhibitions
;
Installations (Art)
;
North Adams
PDF
IMAGES
25
Readings/Collection
Readings
by
Fahamu Pecou
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Illustration
Surviving Basquiat
by
Fahamu Pecou
See also:
Pecou, Fahamu
;
Basquiat, Jean Michel
;
Magazine covers
;
Pictorial works
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Illustration
Rethinking Andy Warhol
by
Fahamu Pecou
See also:
Warhol, Andy
;
Artists' models
;
Artists' studios
;
Pecou, Fahamu
;
Magazine covers
;
Pictorial works
PDF
IMAGES
26
Readings/Article
Tasting freedom
See also:
Alaska
;
Food habits
;
Meals Ready to Eat (MREs)
;
Military life
PDF
TEXT
IMAGES
Readings/Article
The second time as FARC
by
Geoffrey Garrison
(Trans.),
Wies Ubags
(Trans.), and
Tanja Nijmeijer
See also:
Colombia
;
Diaries
;
Dutch
;
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia
;
Guerrilla warfare
;
Women guerrillas
PDF
IMAGES
28
Readings/Article
Scare trade
by
Kevin Casas Zamora
and
Fernando Sánchez
See also:
Commerce
;
Correspondence
;
Costa Rica
;
Free trade
;
Arias Sánchez, Oscar
;
Political corruption
;
Referendum
;
Arias, Rodrigo
PDF
IMAGES
29
Readings/Article
My dinner with antrophagus
by
Jina Moore
(Trans.),
Bernd-Jürgen Brandes
, and
Armin Meiwes
See also:
Meiwes, Armin
;
Brandes, Bernd-Jürgen
;
Cannibalism
;
Death and burial
;
Trials, litigation, etc.
;
Trials (Murder)
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Article
Lust in translation
by
George Steiner
See also:
Language and languages
;
Language and sex
;
Sex differences
PDF
IMAGES
30
Readings/Article
Prisoners of sex
See also:
Sex customs
;
Sexual behavior surveys
PDF
IMAGES
31
Readings/Poem
I met a seducer
by
Grace Paley
PDF
IMAGES
32
Readings/Collection
Readings
by
Liang Shen
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Illustration
Beijing Opera 11-1
by
Liang Shen
See also:
Beijing
;
Operas, Chinese
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Illustration
Beijing Opera 11-16
by
Liang Shen
See also:
Beijing
;
Operas, Chinese
PDF
IMAGES
34
Readings/Illustration
Self portrait as post script
by
Julie Heffernan
See also:
Animals
;
Clothing and dress
;
Heffernan, Julie
;
Mortality
;
Self-portraits
PDF
IMAGES
35 - 46
Article
The god of the desert:
Jerusalem and the ecology of monotheism
by
Richard Rodriguez
See also:
Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
;
Antiquities
;
Buildings, structures, etc.
;
Deserts
;
Historical geography
;
Israel
;
Jerusalem
;
Monotheism
;
Temple Mount (Jerusalem)
;
Western Wall (Jerusalem)
PDF
IMAGES
47 - 53
Collection
Gone home: visions of the High Plains
by
Peter (Peter T.) Brown
(Photog.) and
Kent Haruf
PDF
IMAGES
Photo
[Untitled Photo]
by
Peter (Peter T.) Brown
(Photog.) and
Kent Haruf
See also:
High Plains (U.S.)
;
Prairies
PDF
IMAGES
48 - 49
Photo
[Untitled Photo]
by
Peter (Peter T.) Brown
(Photog.) and
Kent Haruf
See also:
Farms
;
Hailstorms
;
High Plains (U.S.)
;
Thunderstorms
PDF
IMAGES
50
Photo
[Untitled Photo]
by
Peter (Peter T.) Brown
(Photog.) and
Kent Haruf
See also:
High Plains (U.S.)
;
Taverns (Inns)
PDF
IMAGES
51
Photo
[Untitled Photo]
by
Peter (Peter T.) Brown
(Photog.) and
Kent Haruf
See also:
Aged men
;
High Plains (U.S.)
PDF
IMAGES
Photo
[Untitled Photo]
by
Peter (Peter T.) Brown
(Photog.) and
Kent Haruf
See also:
Billboards
;
High Plains (U.S.)
;
Motels
PDF
IMAGES
52 - 53
Photo
[Untitled Photo]
by
Peter (Peter T.) Brown
(Photog.) and
Kent Haruf
See also:
Abandoned farms
;
High Plains (U.S.)
;
Prairies
PDF
IMAGES
54 - 63
Article
The mummy's curse:
An archaeological dispute
by
Gregory Jaynes
See also:
Antiquities
;
Archaeologists
;
Career as archaeologist
;
Career as secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities
;
Egypt
;
Excavations (Archaeology)
;
Corcoran, Lorelei Hilda
;
Schaden, Otto
;
Tombs
;
Valley of the Kings (Egypt)
;
Hawass, Zahi A.
PDF
IMAGES
64 - 65
Archive/Article
Everyone's gone nuts:
The exaggerated threat of food allergies
by
Meredith Broussard
See also:
Muñoz-Furlong, Anne
;
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
;
Pharmaceutical industry
;
Views on food allergy in children
PDF
TEXT
IMAGES
67 - 74
Article
Cemetery of hope:
Brasília at fifty
by
Benjamin Moser
See also:
Architecture
;
Brazil
;
Buildings, structures, etc.
;
Monuments
PDF
IMAGES
75 - 82
Fiction
A failure of concern
by
Ben Marcus
PDF
IMAGES
83 - 84
New books/Review
New books
by
John Leonard
See also:
Manguel, Alberto
;
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
;
Lewis, David Levering
;
Diary of a bad year
(Book)
;
God's crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215
(Book)
;
Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: a biography
(Book)
;
Coetzee, J.M.
;
The painter of battles
(Book)
PDF
IMAGES
85 - 89
Review
Faith in reason:
Secular fantasies of a godless age
by
John Gray
See also:
A secular age
(Book)
;
Taylor, Charles
;
Holoch, George
;
Lilla, Mark
;
Roy, Olivier
;
Secularism
;
Secularism confronts Islam
(Book)
;
The stillborn god: religion, politics, and the modern West
(Book)
PDF
IMAGES
89 - 94
Review
Unsteady as she goes:
Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno
by
William H. Gass
See also:
Lowry, Malcolm
;
Hofmann, Michael
;
The voyage that never ends: fictions, poems, fragments, letters
(Book)
PDF
IMAGES
95
Puzzle/Department
Chain letter
by
Richard Maltby
PDF
IMAGES
96
Findings/Article
Findings
by
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi
PDF
IMAGES
WEEKLY REVIEW
January 15
by
Chantal Clarke
January 22
by
Paul Ford
January 29
by
Christian Lorentzen
WASHINGTON BABYLON
January 4
Obama vs. Huckabee?
by
Ken Silverstein
January 7
The Press and the Campaign: Boosting Obama and McCain
by
Ken Silverstein
January 8
Linda Chavez: Fundraising, Anew, for “Conservative Values”
by
Ken Silverstein
January 9
The Post-New Hampshire Road
by
Ken Silverstein
January 11
Tom DeLay: Get this man a dictionary
by
Ken Silverstein
January 11
New Hampshire: Media Fallout Continues
by
Ken Silverstein
January 15
Would Louis Farrakhan Exist Without Richard Cohen?
by
Ken Silverstein
January 16
Romney Survives Last Stand in Michigan: Can Rudy, with right-wing Cuban help, do the same in Florida?
by
Ken Silverstein
January 16
Romney Consultant: McCain Supports Legal Protections for Terrorists
by
Ken Silverstein
January 17
Bob Woodward: Political weathervane
by
Ken Silverstein
January 17
Richard Cohen: The decider
by
Ken Silverstein
January 17
Worst Analogy of the Day: is “Campaign Auschwitz” coming next?
by
Ken Silverstein
January 18
Romney’s Endorsement by National Review
by
Ken Silverstein
January 21
Steak vs. Organic Chicken: The Clinton-Obama fault line?
by
Ken Silverstein
January 22
Mitt Romney’s Worst Nightmare
by
Ken Silverstein
January 24
Twofer: How Congressman Kline helped UPS and raised money for his new PAC
by
Ken Silverstein
January 25
Note to Obama: Stop whining and fight back
by
Ken Silverstein
January 29
Chavez Family Folds Up Fundraising Operations
by
Ken Silverstein
January 29
Ethics Reform Recap: Pelosi follows in Gingrich’s footsteps
by
Ken Silverstein
January 29
F-22 Ready for Action, Sort Of
by
Ken Silverstein
January 31
The Giuliani Campaign Spent at Least $142.83 For Each Vote
by
Ken Silverstein
January 31
What is 8433, LLC, and Why is it Contributing Money to Congressman Connie Mack?
by
Ken Silverstein
NO COMMENT
January 1
Calderón—Life as a Dream
January 1
A Vow for the New Year
by
Scott Horton
January 2
Warren on Goodness from Badness
January 2
Kingfish Agonistes
by
Scott Horton
January 2
The National Surveillance World
by
Scott Horton
January 3
Lichtenberg on Observation and Human Nature
January 3
Frost’s ‘Mending Wall’
by
Scott Horton
January 3
In Iowa, the Mending Begins
by
Scott Horton
January 4
Marcus Aurelius on the Cosmology
January 4
The Torture President Wields His Veto
by
Scott Horton
January 5
Dürer on Extracting Art from Nature
January 5
Dürer’s Perfect Cure for the Common Headache
by
Scott Horton
January 6
The Vision of Hildegard of Bingen
January 6
The Delusional President
by
Scott Horton
January 7
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
January 7
Heine’s Solitary Spruce
by
Scott Horton
January 7
More Incommunicado Detentions in Afghanistan
by
Scott Horton
January 8
Madison on Gradual Encroachments Against Freedom
January 8
Department of Orwellian Excesses
by
Scott Horton
January 8
Three Points on the Elections
by
Scott Horton
January 8
Just Desserts?
by
Scott Horton
January 9
Molière’s Religious Hypocrite
January 9
Rimbaud’s ‘Righteous Man’
by
Scott Horton
January 9
The Other Scandal Involving Destruction of Evidence
by
Scott Horton
January 10
Moltke on the Duty to Act in the Face of Injustice
January 10
Take a Stand Against Injustice Today
by
Scott Horton
January 11
Frankfurt on Bullshit
January 11
Pushkin—A Feast in the Time of Plague
by
Scott Horton
January 11
Ashcroft’s Sweet Deal
by
Scott Horton
January 12
Suetonius on the Morals of Caesar’s Mistress
January 12
Prosecutorial Ethics Lite
by
Scott Horton
January 13
Melville on the Avenues of Perception
January 13
Melville’s ‘Berg’
by
Scott Horton
January 13
Harper’s Magazine as Matchmaker: Charles Dickens and Herman Melville
by
Scott Horton
January 14
Berlin—Lawyers as Cutlery
January 14
Less Than Human
by
Scott Horton
January 14
The Magnificent Contrarian
by
Scott Horton
January 15
King on the Importance of Conscience in Action
January 15
Brecht ‘To Those Who Follow in Our Wake’
by
Scott Horton
January 15
Mystery Solved?
by
Scott Horton
January 15
Lord Shiva’s Dance
by
Scott Horton
January 15
Pakistan Loses Control
by
Scott Horton
January 16
Nietzsche on the Danger of Battling Monsters
January 16
Ending a Culture of Impunity for Contract Soldiers
by
Scott Horton
January 17
Thucydides on the Role of Justice in Conflict
January 17
Pound’s ‘The Return’
by
Scott Horton
January 17
The Risk Horizon for 2008: Six Questions for Ian Bremmer
by
Scott Horton
January 17
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
January 18
Kepler on How We Learn
January 18
The Official Story Unfolds
by
Scott Horton
January 19
Forster’s Aristocracy
January 19
Hafez—The Angel at the Tavern Door
by
Scott Horton
January 19
Blackwater and the Administration of Justice
by
Scott Horton
January 20
The Dalai Lama on the Duty to Earth and the Human Family
January 20
Is the Bookworm an Endangered Species?
by
Scott Horton
January 21
King’s Audacious Faith
January 21
Hughes—Stars
by
Scott Horton
January 21
Will the Rhetoric Be Matched By Action?
by
Scott Horton
January 21
Wes Teel Suffers a Heart Attack
by
Scott Horton
January 21
Will the Real Leo Strauss Please Stand Up?
by
Scott Horton
January 22
Gide on the Art of Hypocrisy
January 22
The Emails that Dick Cheney Deleted
by
Scott Horton
January 22
The New Keynesians
by
Scott Horton
January 23
Emerson’s Transcendentalist
January 23
Lorca’s Old Lizard
by
Scott Horton
January 23
Deconstructing John Yoo
by
Scott Horton
January 23
Here It Comes: The National Surveillance State
by
Scott Horton
January 24
Adorno—When Questions of Truth Become Questions of Power
January 24
935 Lies on the Way to a War
by
Scott Horton
January 24
Six Questions for Mark Crispin Miller, Author of ‘Fooled Again’
by
Scott Horton
January 24
The Illustrated President
by
Scott Horton
January 25
Novalis’s Weltschmerz
January 25
Dehmel’s ‘Transfigured Night’
by
Scott Horton
January 25
A Political Prosecution Goes Under the Microscope
by
Scott Horton
January 26
Juvenal—Remembering Why We Fight
January 26
How Bush’s Fiscal Mismanagement Produced a Recession
by
Scott Horton
January 27
The Temptation of Christ
January 27
Vaughan’s ‘The World’
by
Scott Horton
January 27
Bulletins from the Ministry for Torture
by
Scott Horton
January 27
The Bubble Bursts
by
Scott Horton
January 28
Borges on the Challenge of Temporal Succession
January 28
Missing News Items Report
by
Scott Horton
January 28
Operating in the Dark
by
Scott Horton
January 29
Burke on Terror, Ignorance and Tyranny
January 29
Mandelstam’s Stalin Epigram
by
Scott Horton
January 29
POTUS in the Well
by
Scott Horton
January 29
Six Questions for Christopher Slobogin, Author of ‘Privacy at Risk’
by
Scott Horton
January 29
More Obstruction at Justice
by
Scott Horton
January 30
Tucholsky’s Liberal Moment
January 30
An Anniversary to Ponder
by
Scott Horton
January 30
‘Trust Us’ Government and Other Lies
by
Scott Horton
January 31
Blackstone on Torture
January 31
Pope’s Essay on Man
by
Scott Horton
January 31
‘Reasonable Minds Can Differ’
by
Scott Horton
January 31
Department of Saturnine Behavior
by
Scott Horton
THE CARTOONS OF MR. FISH
by
Mr. Fish