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May 2009

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	Art/illustration Taking of Jerusalem by the crusaders SEE ALSO: Christianity; Christianity and other religions; Crusades; Godfrey of Bouillon; Islam; Jerusalem in Christianity; Pictorial works; Relations PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Art is, from February 2009: Letter By Thomas Hoving Letter By Benjamin Moser On Achievetrons, from March 2009: Letter By Peter Conn On The last book party, from March 2009: Letter By Daniel Menaker PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-10	Notebook/Article On deadline By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Fear of death; Last words; Philosophers; Simon Critchley; The book of dead philosophers (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article The quivering upper lip By Theodore Dalrymple SEE ALSO: National characteristics, British; Youth PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Beds are burning SEE ALSO: Casualties; Death and burial; Fires; Medical social work; Multiple sclerosis; Badger, Neville PDF TEXT IMAGES
17	Readings/Art/illustration Slow peel By Zohar Lazar SEE ALSO: Speed PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Fiction Highgate cemetery By Christine Schutt PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Art/illustration Sign 3 By Katsutoshi Yuasa SEE ALSO: Signs and symbols PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Slum pudding SEE ALSO: Jesus Christ; Nativity; Slang PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article The education of Mr. Bumby By Ernest Hemingway SEE ALSO: Alcohol use; Biography; Childhood and youth; Children of authors; Hemingway, Ernest; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); Family; Hemingway, Jack PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Photography The transparent city #88 By Michael Wolf (Photog.) SEE ALSO: High-rise apartment buildings; Hong Kong; Skyscrapers PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article The imp of the perverse By Edgar Allan Poe SEE ALSO: Alcohol use; Correspondence; Poe, Edgar Allan PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Article They have more money By Doug Gollan SEE ALSO: Consumption (Economics); Financial crises; Rich people; Wealth PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Objectif lune By Charles Dantzig and Lorin Stein (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, French PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Can you hear me now? SEE ALSO: Dismissal of; Downsizing of organizations; Telecommunication PDF TEXT IMAGES
26	Readings/Art/illustration The remote viewer #03 By Gil Heitor Cortesão SEE ALSO: Space (Architecture) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Justice is blind drunk SEE ALSO: African American judges; Alcohol use; Career as police officer; Complaints against; Washington, Dwight; Cofield, E. Curtissa; Glastonbury; Kowal, Michael; Police; Women judges PDF TEXT IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Fiction Credit gone away By Alain Mabanckou and Helen Stevenson (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
31-43	Article Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military By Jeff Sharlet SEE ALSO: Chaplains, Military; Christianity; Christianity and other religions; Church and state; Evangelicalism; Fundamentalism; Islam; Weinstein, Michael; Military policy; Relations; United States Air Force Academy; United States. Army. Special Forces; Views on religion in military; War PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
44-53	Article The sicario: A Juárez hit man speaks By Charles Bowden SEE ALSO: Assassins; Bowden, Charles; Ciudad Juárez; Ciudad Juárez (Mexico); Disappeared persons; Drug traffic; Journeys—Mexico—Ciudad Juárez; Kidnapping; Police corruption; Torture PDF TEXT IMAGES
54-63	Article Fast fish, loose fish: Who will own Alaska's disappearing salmon? By Rowan Jacobsen SEE ALSO: Alaska; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Fishery law and legislation; Salmon fishing PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
64-70	Collection Two cosmicomics By Italo Calvino PDF IMAGES
65-67	Fiction As long as the sun lasts By Italo Calvino and M.L. (Martin L.) McLaughlin (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
68-70	Fiction The meteorites By Italo Calvino and M.L. (Martin L.) McLaughlin (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
71-72	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Armenian Golgotha (Book); Collected poems (Book); Collected poems/C.P. Cavafy (Book); Cavafy, Constantine; Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam; Palak'ean, Grigoris; Mamdani, Mahmood; Saviors and survivors: Darfur, politics, and the war on terror (Book); Aleichem, Sholem; The unfinished poems (Book); The unfinished poems/C.P. Cavafy (Book); Wandering stars (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
73-78	Review Last man standing: The acquisitive music of John Zorn By Joshua Cohen SEE ALSO: Arcana III: musicians on music (Book); Arcana II: musicians on music (Book); Arcana: musicians on music (Book); Criticism and interpretation; Brackett, John Lowell; Zorn, John; John Zorn: tradition and transgression (Book); Music PDF TEXT IMAGES
78-82	Review Love for sale: Appraising the relics of a relationship By Francine Prose SEE ALSO: Important artifacts and personal property from the collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, street fashion, and jewelry (Book); Shapton, Leanne PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Ups and downs By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Paul Ford	May 5
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Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha	May 19

By Ken Silverstein

Corporate Front Man: Richard Berman manages the news on key labor-backed bill	9:57 AM May 15
Dictator/oil consultant being considered for senior administration position	9:27 AM May 22
FBI Investigates Former Senator Coleman: an empty suit?	9:03 AM May 14
The View From Iraq	8:11 AM May 8
Congressman Conyers’ Super Bowl	8:33 AM May 7
More on Murtha-Backed Biodefense Facility	10:20 AM May 12
The Sound of the Revolving Door	10:22 AM May 20
Israel and “Regime Change” in Iran	3:18 PM May 26
Obama’s Flip-Flops on National Security	8:42 AM May 22
Sharon Stone and the Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Chaka Kahn	2:45 PM May 28
Sotomayor And The Crafty Catholic Lobby	12:03 PM May 28
Defense Plant Doesn’t Want Earmarked Money: But lobby firm gets it anyway	10:34 AM May 11
The Financial Crisis, the IMF and Karl Marx	10:44 AM May 4
The Worst Writer in America?	8:55 AM May 13
The Death of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi	9:48 AM May 12
Funny Numbers: the New York Times terror report	11:19 AM May 27
Stepping Into It: Norm Coleman’s donors and their plans for “World Peace”	12:47 PM May 26
And You Thought Congress Was Bad	10:25 AM May 20
The More Things Change…	2:56 PM May 13
The Math Hasn’t Changed: $500,000 buys ambassadorship	10:21 AM May 29
Global Economic Crisis Worsens: Dolph Lundgren latest victim of free-market capitalism	10:36 AM May 4
Congress Stiffs Troubled Mortgage Holders	12:13 PM May 1
The Stimulus And The Nuclear Option	10:00 AM May 18
As Seen From Space: The global economic collapse	8:13 AM May 8
Death, Lobbyists and Sri Lanka	8:00 AM May 18
Breaking: Left-Wing and Right-Wing Bloggers Both Upset	10:33 AM May 11
Congressman Murtha Strikes Again	8:20 AM May 5
Conservative Critic: Sotomayor Exhibits Dangerous Bias Towards Rice and Beans	3:04 PM May 28
FDA Asks Industry to Help It Defend Miscarriage-Inducing Chemical	9:58 AM May 18
It’s Only Torture When They Do It	12:03 PM May 8
The 100 MPG Hummer: Suckers Wanted	9:13 AM May 28
The League of Extraordinary Egos: Meet the Washington media	8:17 AM May 8
Business Week: The Great Ethanol Scam	8:02 AM May 18
Fundraising and Hate-mongering	12:08 PM May 1
More Trouble For Congressman Murtha	12:39 PM May 26
This is Health Care Reform	8:04 AM May 8
Dick Cheney IS 9/11	8:39 AM May 22
The White House Correspondents Dinner: “This is the real deal”	8:55 AM May 12
Good Way to Start the Week: Jack Shafer eviscerates Cokie Roberts	8:08 AM May 4
Biopork: New DHS Appointee Ties to Congressman John Murtha	9:00 AM May 7
Death in Libya: Political prisoner latest victim of Bush’s “Freedom Agenda”	8:48 AM May 22
CIA Discovery: Tribes in Afghanistan!	12:25 PM May 26
The CIA’s Congressional Mumblers and Dissemblers	11:16 AM May 27
Laying the Body on Dick Cheney	8:43 AM May 13
G.O.P. Solidarity: It’s a holiday in Somalia	8:22 AM May 8
Norm Coleman’s Donors and Remembering 9/11	8:53 AM May 27
The CIA’s Foggy Crystal Ball	8:33 AM May 5
Inside Israel’s Illegal Settlements Program	8:15 AM May 4
Texas’s Latest Great Idea: Give guns to drunk frat boys	11:11 AM May 20
You Don’t Know Jack	11:59 AM May 28
Guess Who’s Coming to the Bailout?	8:16 AM May 6
Making Sense of the White House Correspondents Dinner	10:32 AM May 11
Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan	9:40 AM May 7

By Wyatt Mason

Weekend Read: The Last Post

2:41 PM

May 1

By Scott Horton

The Enemies of All Humankind	4:01 PM May 6
Rousseau—the Savoyard Abbé	6:00 AM May 9
Whitman’s Twenty-Eight Young Men	6:37 AM May 3
Cheney Prepares the Twinkie Defense	11:36 AM May 26
The Neverending Story of the Abu Ghraib Photos	9:18 AM May 29
The Cyril Wecht Case Continues to Disintegrate	8:28 AM May 15
The Jay Bybee Question	9:21 AM May 14
From the Department of Pre-Crime	3:54 PM May 26
The Chartist’s Plight: Six Questions for Sha Yexin	2:06 PM May 18
David Frum’s G.O.P.	9:52 AM May 11
Sorenson Takes on the Torture Lawyers	1:58 PM May 13
Did Blackwater Contractors Attempt to Hide Evidence of a Massacre in Iraq?	3:41 PM May 8
War Games with the Press	4:39 PM May 26
The Nod Goes to Sotomayor	5:00 PM May 26
Gauguin Did It	10:08 AM May 6
Ariosto/Monteverdi—Voglio di vita uscir	9:36 AM May 23
A Talk with Condi’s Interrogators	9:29 AM May 6
Mill—Progress Through Contact With the Unknown	4:59 AM May 17
The Times’s Torture Hypocrisy	9:10 AM May 12
A Convenient Death	1:51 PM May 12
Special Prosecutor Moves in CIA Tapes Case	3:17 PM May 5
Federal Judge Spotlights Misconduct by Federal Prosecutors in Siegelman Case	12:38 PM May 22
Rice and Bellinger Push Back	1:03 PM May 4
Justice in the Gutter, Continued	4:36 PM May 4
The Bush Era Torture-Homicides	4:25 PM May 7
Saint-Amant/Purcell—Solitude	5:00 AM May 17
Bolton’s Spanish Delusions	9:51 AM May 7
Manzoni—History and Politics	12:35 AM May 23
Condi’s Really Bad Day	12:34 PM May 1
Win One for the Gipper!	2:18 PM May 6
Pelosi and the Torture Briefings	9:07 AM May 8
The Scapegoats	10:26 AM May 4
Stolberg/Schubert—Auf dem Wasser zu singen	5:44 AM May 10
Six Questions for Rashid Khalidi, Author of Sowing Crisis	11:59 AM May 28
Lessons Not Learned	9:35 AM May 5
Kant—The Crooked Wood of Humankind	6:08 AM May 30
Holmes—Life as Art	6:04 AM May 2
Repeal the USA Patriot Act	2:07 PM May 6
Galileo and Gitmo	10:31 AM May 27
Brecht—On Kant’s Definition of Marriage	6:37 AM May 31
Justice Dismisses the AIPAC Case–and That’s a Good Thing	1:01 PM May 5

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As Hitler Tightened the Screws: Hypocrisy and conniving in France

By John R. MacArthur

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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
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UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
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