Harper's Magazine, February 2008

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February 2008

CONTENTS THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] by Tim Bower See also: Business cycles; Capitalists and financiers; Financial crises; Speculation PDF IMAGES
4 - 7	Letters/Department Letters On “Specific suggestion” from October 2007: Letter by Wayne Costigan On “Woman marries snake” from November 2007: Letter by Eric Henry On “Modernism a la mode” from November 2007: Letter by Martin Filler On “Guantanamo baywatch” from December 2007: Letter by Carol Ann Wald Letter by Clive A. Stafford Smith On “Of men and mice” from December 2007: Letter by Martin Stephens Letter by Vern Paetkau On “Among the reviewers” from December 2007: Letter by Edmund L. Epstein On “” from January 2008: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
9 - 13	Notebook/Article The moral equivalent of empire by Jonathan Schell See also: Bush, George W.; Imperialism; International relations; Military leadership; Military policy; 2001-; Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear nonproliferation PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17 - 19	Readings/Fiction The compliance branch by David Foster Wallace PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Empty bar by Armando Mariño See also: Bars (Drinking establishments) PDF IMAGES
20 - 22	Readings/Article Resistance is surrender by Slavoj Zizek See also: Anarchism; Capitalism; Government, Resistance to; Political ethics; Right and left (Political science) PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Death of Dale Earnhardt by Malcolm Morley See also: Accidents; Automobile racing drivers; Earnhardt, Dale; Death and burial—Pictorial works; Stock car racing PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Dictator's cut by Elham Rajabpur See also: Biography; Career as film director; Documentary films; Iran; Islam; Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud; Motion pictures; Stone, Oliver; Production and direction; Religion in motion pictures PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Te amo Colombia by Renee McGinnis and James Prinz (Photog.) See also: Colombia; Palaces PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction ELF-CIO by Burke Butler (Trans.) and Mirta Narosky PDF TEXT IMAGES
24 - 25	Readings/Article The things they ate by Nick Allen (Trans.) and Arkady Babchenko See also: Babchenko, Arkady; Biography; Chechnia; Chechnia (Russia); Civil War, 1994; Military life; Operational rations (Military supplies); Russia. Army PDF IMAGES
25 - 26	Readings/Article Mein crush by Geoffrey Garrison (Trans.) See also: Hitler, Adolf; Attachment behavior in children; Berlin; Correspondence PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Sense and flexibility by C. Janru Huang (Trans.) and Li Li See also: Lee, Ang; Career as film director; Mass media and sex; Sex counseling; Sex in motion pictures; Sexual excitement PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Group Shot 3 by Gale Antokal See also: Silhouettes; Walking PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Those methods were quite wrong by Geoffrey Brooks (Trans.) See also: Hitler, Adolf; Atrocities; Generals; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Military leadership; Prisoners and prisons, German PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Poem Patent pending by Hugo Williams PDF IMAGES
30 - 31	Readings/Fiction Is that you, Sister Marguerite? by Marguerite Duras PDF IMAGES
33 - 38	Article Staying awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading by Ursula K. Le Guin See also: Literacy; Literature and society; Literature publishing; Reading interests PDF TEXT IMAGES
39 - 45	Article The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash by Eric Janszen See also: Business cycles; Capitalists and financiers; Financial crises; Housing policy; Infrastructure (Economics); Insurance; Real estate business; Renewable energy sources; Speculation PDF TEXT IMAGES
46 - 59	Article Wasteland: A journey through the American cloaca by Frederick Kaufman See also: Career in organic wastes recycling; Career in sewage disposal; Organic wastes; Organic wastes as fertilizer; Recycling; Boucher, Robert; Sewage sludge; Askew, Steve PDF IMAGES
60 - 65	Article Not what it takes: Running for president on less than $2,000 a day by David Gargill See also: Career as candidate for U.S. president; Iowa; Cox, John; 2008 PDF IMAGES
66 - 74	Article Go before you die: A road trip through the “new” Colombia by Patrick Graham See also: Cocaine industry; Colombia; Drug traffic; Giraldo, Hernán; Homes and haunts; Journeys—Colombia; Escobar, Pablo; Paramilitary forces; Bolívar, Simón; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
75 - 80	Fiction Wars in distant lands by Raymond Stock (Trans.) and Najm Wali PDF IMAGES
81 - 82	New books/Review New books by John Leonard See also: Schlink, Bernhard; Fanon (Book); Five years of my life: an innocent man in Guantanamo (Book); Homecoming (Book); Wideman, John Edgar; Kurnaz, Murat; Night train to Lisbon (Book); Mercier, Pascal; Banks, Russell; The reserve (Book) PDF IMAGES
83 - 89	Review Too true, the art of the aphorism by Arthur Krystal See also: Aphorisms and apothegms; Kafka, Franz; Shapiro, Fred R.; Geary's guide to the worlds great aphorists (Book); Geary, James; Gross, John J.; Hofmann, Michael; The Oxford book of aphorisms (Book); The world in a phrase: a brief history of the aphorism (Book); The Yale book of quotations (Book); The Zürau aphorisms of Franz Kafka (Book) PDF IMAGES
89 - 94	Review This way, not that: Nadine Gordimer does as she pleases by Robert Boyers See also: Beethoven was one-sixteenth black and other stories (Book); Gordimer, Nadine; Novelists, South African; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Be my valentine: Heart transplants by Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF IMAGES