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April 2008

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	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 FREE 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; Wildfires 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 FREE TEXT 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 FREE 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
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Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Apr 15
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Apr 1
Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Apr 8
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Apr 22
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Apr 29

By Ken Silverstein

Top Democratic Strategist Ensnared in Scandal (Not Really)	12:45 PM Apr 18
Ten Issues That Will Decide the McCain-Obama Election Is McCain Bob Dole or is Obama Michael Dukakis?	9:27 AM Apr 21
Administrative Note	11:20 AM Apr 2
Return of the Pentagon’s Media Surrogates	11:20 AM Apr 20
Jimmy Carter, Hamas, and the Media	12:43 PM Apr 16
Bloggers and the Middle East, Continued	10:05 AM Apr 21
McCain and the “Reform” Institute	3:37 PM Apr 11
Hillary: We’ll “totally obliterate” Iran	9:02 AM Apr 22
Charlie and George at ABC: Lame and Lamer	7:36 AM Apr 17
How McCain Promotes “Reform” Through Non-Profit Institute	7:23 AM Apr 14
The Pentagon and the Weekly Standard: Cutting Out the Middleman	9:54 AM Apr 24
Six Questions for Patricia Gossman on Afghanistan It's even worse than you thought...	9:21 AM Apr 28
Six Questions for Jefferson Morley on “Our Man in Mexico” How many Mexican presidents did the CIA have on the payroll?	2:52 PM Apr 17
Obama to Azeri Dictator: Set Our Big Macs Free	8:58 AM Apr 25
Bloggers and Double Standards	8:29 AM Apr 15
The Best Bias Money Can Buy	5:34 PM Apr 15
Headline of the Week	1:36 PM Apr 25
McCain’s “Courtly Southerner” Old Spy magazine story on Charles Black not nearly as admiring as New York Times profile	7:55 AM Apr 15
A Reader Notes: Israel and Hamas Already Talking	8:28 AM Apr 17
Book Debate at TPM Cafe	3:00 PM Apr 29
Wal-Mart Political Videos: The ABCs of Buying Influence	7:49 AM Apr 23
McCain’s Tax Returns and Charity	1:15 PM Apr 18
Hold the Presses! Journalist Challenges Karl Rove for Lying	9:01 AM Apr 25
When You Hear the Word “Freedom,” Reach For your Wallet	8:01 AM Apr 18
Need Stock Advice? Congressman Peter Hoekstra May Have Some Tips	10:57 AM Apr 22
Army Granting More “Waivers” for Criminals, Drug Abusers	8:29 AM Apr 22
The “Stupidest Guy on the Face of the Earth” Points Fingers	7:42 AM Apr 25
Campaign ’08 and Howard Dean’s Tears	10:12 AM Apr 24
Ethics Reform Marches On	2:03 PM Apr 24
Deep Throats: A Compilation of Debate Porn Also: Wal-Mart or the Weather Underground: Which is the bigger threat to America?	5:21 PM Apr 17
Obama Roundup: Reverend Wright and Robert Blackwell	10:34 AM Apr 30

By Scott Horton

Worst. President. Ever.	12:56 PM Apr 5
Monica’s DOJ Makeover	7:39 AM Apr 3
Canetti—War and the First Death	Apr 3
Torture Lawyer in the Crosshairs	5:56 PM Apr 7
Political Prosecution in Pittsburgh Collapses	5:06 PM Apr 9
Gracián on the Art of Expectations	Apr 1
Georg Forster’s Recollection of Benjamin Franklin	9:40 AM Apr 13
Hyginus–Man and the Gigantomakhia	Apr 6
More Corruption at Mukasey’s Justice Department?	7:19 AM Apr 1
Karl in a Corner	6:50 PM Apr 6
Justice in Birmingham	6:53 PM Apr 6
Bilal Hussein to Be Released Wednesday	4:27 PM Apr 14
Yoo Two	7:15 AM Apr 3
Balzac—The Despotism of Small Minds	Apr 4
Marvell—‘The Garden’	9:21 AM Apr 10
The Green Light	7:48 AM Apr 2
Novalis—the Power of Realization	Apr 10
Alice Martin Perjury Update	2:44 PM Apr 22
Bilal Hussein Exonerated	2:25 PM Apr 9
Burke on Human History	Apr 8
A Tale of Three Lawyers	6:41 AM Apr 8
Nietzsche—the ‘Historically Educated’ Man	Apr 9
In the Face of Justice Department Inaction, the Pentagon Moves Ahead on Contractor Accountability	9:14 AM Apr 4
Shakespeare—Like As the Waves	6:03 AM Apr 25
DOJ’s Magnolia Caper	12:51 PM Apr 1
Tsvetaeva, ‘In My Way’	5:37 AM Apr 8
“History Will Not Judge This Kindly”	8:53 PM Apr 9
Plato—‘Pregnant’ Men and the Role of Beauty in Creation	Apr 7
Lucretius—The Invocation to Venus	Apr 2
Media Alert	4:08 PM Apr 5
The Decision to Torture Came from the Top	11:08 AM Apr 23
The Unbearable Lightness of Being John C. Yoo	6:01 AM Apr 21
Six Questions for Noah Feldman, Author of ‘The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State’	7:21 AM Apr 3
An Interview with Tom Farer, Author of ‘Confronting Global Terrorism’	1:10 PM Apr 28
King–Letter from a Birmingham Jail	6:56 AM Apr 5
Mallarmé’s ‘Sea Breeze’	6:20 AM Apr 4
Justice Tackles the Corporate Offenders, Or Perhaps Not	7:39 AM Apr 9
Herrick’s Daffodils	6:14 AM Apr 2
Is There Life After Blogging?	6:40 AM Apr 10
Milton—From Paradise Lost	8:58 AM Apr 6

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	8:05 AM Apr 18
A Cartoon	7:14 AM Apr 4
A Cartoon	7:28 AM Apr 11
A Cartoon	6:40 AM Apr 25

Questions for Errol Morris By W.J.T. (W.J. Thomas) Mitchell	12:35 PM Apr 24
NOT ME! A timeline of finger-pointing in Iraq Lies (and truth) in the New York Times. By Luke Mitchell	12:21 PM Apr 3