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CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS
Illustration
L'Ange du foyer
by
Max Ernst
See also:
Communicable diseases
;
Demonology
PDF
IMAGES
4 - 7
Letters/Department
Letters
On “
Staying awake
” from
February 2008
:
Letter
by
André Schiffrin
Letter
by
Lorin Stein
Letter
by
Barbara Epler
Letter
by
James Atlas
Letter
by
Andrea Malaguti
PDF
IMAGES
9 - 12
Notebook/Article
Why I pay my taxes
by
Ben Metcalf
See also:
Appropriations and expenditures
;
Civil disobedience
;
Human Rights
;
Tax and expenditure limitations
;
Taxation
PDF
TEXT
IMAGES
15
Harper's index/Department
Harper's index
PDF
IMAGES
17 - 21
Readings/Article
The evidence of things not seen
by
David Berlinski
See also:
Atheism
;
Evidence
;
Gods
;
Philosophy
;
Proof
;
Religion and science
PDF
IMAGES
18
Readings/Article
Monkey shines
by
Jina Moore NV
(Trans.)
See also:
Austria
;
Chimpanzees
PDF
IMAGES
19
Readings/Photo
Understory flareups
by
Laura McPhee
(Photog.)
See also:
Idaho
PDF
IMAGES
21
Readings/Poem
Encyclopedia of horror
by
Charles Simic
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Article
The destiny of Borges
by
Jennifer Acker
(Trans.),
Tomás Abraham
,
Alejandro Rússovich
, and
Enrique Eduardo Marí
See also:
Argentina
;
Books and reading
;
Buenos Aires
;
Interviews
;
Borges, Jorge Luis
;
Last years
;
Literature
;
Philosophy
PDF
IMAGES
22
Readings/Photo
Simiform-6
by
Tim Flach
(Photog.)
See also:
Anthropomorphism
;
Bats
PDF
IMAGES
23 - 24
Readings/Article
Dog-eared afternoon
See also:
Book thefts
;
Allen, Charles Thomas
;
Borsuk, Eric
;
Lexington
;
Libraries
;
Rare books
;
Reinhard, Spencer
;
Trials (Larceny)
;
Trials, litigation, etc.
;
Lipka, Warren
PDF
IMAGES
24 - 26
Readings/Article
Where everybody knows your name
See also:
Emigration and immigration
;
Nigeria
;
Return migration
;
Social conflict
PDF
IMAGES
26
Readings/Article
Terms of enslavement
See also:
Arizona
;
Polygamy
;
Terminology
;
Utah
PDF
IMAGES
27
Readings/Illustration
Tiny dancer
by
Eric Zener
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Fiction
Sprawl
by
Danielle Dutton
PDF
IMAGES
29
Readings/Article
Knowing is half the battle
by
Travis Patriquin
See also:
Death and burial
;
Iraq
;
Iraq War, 2003-
;
Militias
;
Operations other than war
;
Patriquin, Travis
;
War and society
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Article
War gigs
See also:
Afghan War, 2001-
;
Afghanistan
;
Iraq War, 2003-
;
Kuwait
;
Rock musicians
;
War work
PDF
IMAGES
30
Readings/Illustration
Magee Field
by
Lli Wilburn
See also:
Baseball fields
;
Pittsburgh
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Article
Foul ball
See also:
Baseball players
;
Obscene words
;
Obscenity (Law)
PDF
IMAGES
31
Readings/Poem
Red fog
by
Leonard Schwartz
PDF
IMAGES
32
Readings/Collection
Readings
by
Sandow Birk
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Illustration
Obsession
by
Sandow Birk
See also:
Compulsive behavior
;
Military policy
;
Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
;
War
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Illustration
Investigation
by
Sandow Birk
See also:
Legislative hearings
;
Military policy
;
Politics and war
;
United States. Congress. Senate
PDF
IMAGES
Readings/Illustration
Invasion
by
Sandow Birk
See also:
Military policy
;
Tank warfare
;
War
PDF
IMAGES
33 - 43
Article
Contagious cancer:
The evolution of a killer
by
David Quammen
See also:
Cancer
;
Communicable diseases
;
Diseases
;
Evolution
;
Genetic aspects
;
Tasmania
;
Transmission
;
Tumors
PDF
IMAGES
44 - 49
Article
Portrait of a masked man
by
John Berger
See also:
Biography
;
Chiapas, Mexico
;
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)
;
Government relations
;
Guerrillas
;
Indians of Mexico
;
Moreno Arteaga, María Concepción
;
2000
;
Pictorial works
;
Marcos, subcomandante
PDF
IMAGES
50 - 56
Article
Exodus:
Where will Iraq go next?
by
Deborah Campbell
See also:
Iraq
;
Iraq War, 2003-
;
Legal status, laws, etc.
;
Refugees
;
Refugees, Political
;
Syria
PDF
IMAGES
57 - 70
Article
Falling:
Confessions of a lapsed forest Christian
by
Donovan Hohn
See also:
Biography
;
Christianity
;
Hohn, Donovan
;
Nature
;
Nature worship
;
Problem families
;
San Francisco
PDF
IMAGES
71 - 78
Article
The revolution will not be pasteurized:
Inside the raw-milk underground
by
Nathanael Johnson
See also:
Bacteria
;
Career as dairy farmer
;
Dairy laws
;
Durham
;
Fresno
;
Health aspects
;
McAfee, Mark
;
Schmidt, Michael
;
Milk
;
Ontario
;
Pasteurization
PDF
TEXT
IMAGES
79 - 87
Fiction
Twenty-two stories
by
Paul Theroux
PDF
IMAGES
89 - 90
New books/Review
New books
by
John Leonard
See also:
Weiss, Andrea
;
Hari, Daoud
;
Havanas in Camelot: personal essays
(Book)
;
In the shadow of the magic mountain: the Erika and Klaus Mann story
(Book)
;
Maps and legends: essays on reading and writing along the borderlands
(Book)
;
Chabon, Michael
;
The translator: a tribesman's memoir of Darfur
(Book)
;
Styron, William
PDF
IMAGES
91 - 96
Review
Dirty laundry:
The strange history of hygiene
by
Joanna Bourke
See also:
Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity
(Book)
;
Hygiene
;
Ashenburg, Katherine
;
The dirt on clean: an unsanitized history
(Book)
;
Smith, Virginia (Virginia Sarah)
PDF
IMAGES
96 - 102
Review
The other side of silence:
W.G. Sebald's melancholy art
by
Evelyn Toynton
See also:
Authors, German
;
Interviews
;
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
;
Pictorial works
;
The emergence of memory: conversations with W.G. Sebald
(Book)
;
Sebald, Winfried Georg
PDF
IMAGES
103
Puzzle/Department
One across, fourteen across
by
Richard Maltby
PDF
IMAGES
104
Findings/Article
Findings
by
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi
PDF
IMAGES
WEEKLY REVIEW
April 1
by
Sam Stark
April 8
by
Chantal Clarke
April 15
by
Paul Ford
April 22
by
Claire Gutierrez
April 29
by
Christian Lorentzen
WASHINGTON BABYLON
April 2
Administrative Note
by
Ken Silverstein
April 11
McCain and the “Reform” Institute
by
Ken Silverstein
April 14
How McCain Promotes “Reform” Through Non-Profit Institute
by
Ken Silverstein
April 15
McCain’s “Courtly Southerner”
by
Ken Silverstein
April 15
Bloggers and Double Standards
by
Ken Silverstein
April 15
The Best Bias Money Can Buy
by
Ken Silverstein
April 16
Jimmy Carter, Hamas, and the Media
by
Ken Silverstein
April 17
Charlie and George at ABC: Lame and Lamer
by
Ken Silverstein
April 17
A Reader Notes: Israel and Hamas Already Talking
by
Ken Silverstein
April 17
Six Questions for Jefferson Morley on “Our Man in Mexico”
by
Ken Silverstein
April 17
Deep Throats: A Compilation of Debate Porn
by
Ken Silverstein
April 18
When You Hear the Word “Freedom,” Reach For your Wallet
by
Ken Silverstein
April 18
Top Democratic Strategist Ensnared in Scandal (Not Really)
by
Ken Silverstein
April 18
McCain’s Tax Returns and Charity
by
Ken Silverstein
April 20
Return of the Pentagon’s Media Surrogates
by
Ken Silverstein
April 21
Ten Issues That Will Decide the McCain-Obama Election
by
Ken Silverstein
April 21
Bloggers and the Middle East, Continued
by
Ken Silverstein
April 22
Army Granting More “Waivers” for Criminals, Drug Abusers
by
Ken Silverstein
April 22
Hillary: We’ll “totally obliterate” Iran
by
Ken Silverstein
April 22
Need Stock Advice? Congressman Peter Hoekstra May Have Some Tips
by
Ken Silverstein
April 23
Wal-Mart Political Videos: The ABCs of Buying Influence
by
Ken Silverstein
April 24
The Pentagon and the Weekly Standard: Cutting Out the Middleman
by
Ken Silverstein
April 24
Campaign ’08 and Howard Dean’s Tears
by
Ken Silverstein
April 24
Ethics Reform Marches On
by
Ken Silverstein
April 25
The “Stupidest Guy on the Face of the Earth” Points Fingers
by
Ken Silverstein
April 25
Obama to Azeri Dictator: Set Our Big Macs Free
by
Ken Silverstein
April 25
Hold the Presses! Journalist Challenges Karl Rove for Lying
by
Ken Silverstein
April 25
Headline of the Week
by
Ken Silverstein
April 28
Six Questions for Patricia Gossman on Afghanistan
by
Ken Silverstein
April 29
Book Debate at TPM Cafe
by
Ken Silverstein
April 30
Obama Roundup: Reverend Wright and Robert Blackwell
by
Ken Silverstein
NO COMMENT
April 1
Gracián on the Art of Expectations
April 1
More Corruption at Mukasey’s Justice Department?
by
Scott Horton
April 1
DOJ’s Magnolia Caper
by
Scott Horton
April 2
Lucretius—The Invocation to Venus
April 2
Herrick’s Daffodils
by
Scott Horton
April 2
The Green Light
by
Scott Horton
April 3
Canetti—War and the First Death
April 3
Yoo Two
by
Scott Horton
April 3
Six Questions for Noah Feldman, Author of ‘The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State’
by
Scott Horton
April 3
Monica’s DOJ Makeover
by
Scott Horton
April 4
Balzac—The Despotism of Small Minds
April 4
Mallarmé’s ‘Sea Breeze’
by
Scott Horton
April 4
In the Face of Justice Department Inaction, the Pentagon Moves Ahead on Contractor Accountability
by
Scott Horton
April 5
King—Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 5
Worst. President. Ever.
by
Scott Horton
April 5
Media Alert
by
Scott Horton
April 6
Hyginus—Man and the Gigantomakhia
April 6
Milton—From Paradise Lost
by
Scott Horton
April 6
Karl in a Corner
by
Scott Horton
April 6
Justice in Birmingham
by
Scott Horton
April 7
Plato—‘Pregnant’ Men and the Role of Beauty in Creation
April 7
Torture Lawyer in the Crosshairs
by
Scott Horton
April 8
Burke on Human History
April 8
Tsvetaeva, ‘In My Way’
by
Scott Horton
April 8
A Tale of Three Lawyers
by
Scott Horton
April 9
Nietzsche—the ‘Historically Educated’ Man
April 9
Justice Tackles the Corporate Offenders, Or Perhaps Not
by
Scott Horton
April 9
Bilal Hussein Exonerated
by
Scott Horton
April 9
Political Prosecution in Pittsburgh Collapses
by
Scott Horton
April 9
“History Will Not Judge This Kindly”
by
Scott Horton
April 10
Novalis—the Power of Realization
April 10
Is There Life After Blogging?
by
Scott Horton
April 10
Marvell—‘The Garden’
by
Scott Horton
April 13
Georg Forster’s Recollection of Benjamin Franklin
by
Scott Horton
April 14
Bilal Hussein to Be Released Wednesday
by
Scott Horton
April 21
The Unbearable Lightness of Being John C. Yoo
by
Scott Horton
April 22
Alice Martin Perjury Update
by
Scott Horton
April 23
The Decision to Torture Came from the Top
by
Scott Horton
April 25
Shakespeare—Like As the Waves
by
Scott Horton
April 28
An Interview with Tom Farer, Author of ‘Confronting Global Terrorism’
by
Scott Horton
THE CARTOONS OF MR. FISH
by
Mr. Fish
COMMENTARY
April 3
NOT ME! A timeline of finger-pointing in Iraq
by
Luke Mitchell
April 24
Questions for Errol Morris
by
W.J.T. (W.J. Thomas) Mitchell
ARCHIVE
April 2
Readings and Remarks: The Harper’s Magazine 150th anniversary, 2000