Harper's Magazine: April 2010

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April 2010

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Ray Bartkus SEE ALSO: Liberalism; Men's clothing; Missing persons PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Lines of occupation, from January 2010: Letter By Adam Nissim Letter By Joshua Cohen On The mendacity of hope, from February 2010: Letter By Jon B. Eisenberg Letter By Pat Maslowski Letter By Roger D. Hodge PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-10	Notebook/Article Toward a second Haitian revolution By Steven Stoll SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Agriculture and state; Earthquakes; Economic development projects; Haiti; International Monetary Fund; Land use, Rural; Revolution, 1791-1804; Rural conditions PDF TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article Pennies to heaven By Joachim Kalka SEE ALSO: Career as comic-book writer; Barks, Carl; Credit cards; Electronic commerce; Hoarding of money; Bloy, Léon; Money; Views on money PDF TEXT IMAGES
16	Readings/Poetry Sonnet for a tango in the twilight By Jorge Luis Borges and Stephen Kessler (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Art/illustration Equestrian portrait of the Count-Duke Olivares By Kehinde Wiley SEE ALSO: African American men; Horsemanship PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The academic marketplace SEE ALSO: Consumer behavior; Periodicals PDF TEXT IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article A supposedly fun thing SEE ALSO: Caribbean Area; Consumer behavior; Cruise lines; Earthquakes; Haiti; Tourism PDF TEXT IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Dirty words By Robert Morris SEE ALSO: Conceptual art; Correspondence; Wagstaff, Samuel J. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Arabian night By Sophia Al-Maria SEE ALSO: Direct broadcast satellite television; Middle East; Plots, themes, etc.; Television broadcasting; Television programs PDF TEXT IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Don't be evil By Gaspar Llamazares Trigo and Regina Galasso (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Aging; Correspondence; Digital techniques; bin Laden, Osama; Photographs; Photography; Mueller, Robert S.; Terrorists; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation PDF TEXT IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Writers block By L.M. Lazarev and K.A. Lantz (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Gide, André; Authors, French; Authors, Soviet; Concentration camps; Imprisonment; Journeys; Journeys—Soviet Union; Lazarev, L.M.; Political persecution; Political prisoners PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Art/illustration Peacock By Colin Martin SEE ALSO: Peafowl PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction People who are refined By Robert Walser and Susan Bernofsky (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Art/illustration Oak on easel #1, Stonethwaite Beck, Smithymire Island, Borrowdale, Cumbria, 1/07/2005 By Tim Knowles SEE ALSO: Trees PDF IMAGES
29-37	Article The vanishing liberal: How the left learned to be helpless By Kevin Baker SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Career as U.S. president; Civil rights movements; Democracy; Helplessness (Psychology); Liberalism; Military leadership; Military policy; 2009-; New Deal, 1933-1939; Populism; Progressivism (United States politics); Right and left (Political science) PDF TEXT IMAGES
38-39	Article Mad men: Introducing the defense industry's pay-to-play ad agency By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Obama, Barack; Career as chief operating officer of Lexington Institute; Defense industries; Thompson, Loren B.; Military leadership; Military policy; Research institutes; United States. Department of Defense PDF IMAGES
41-54	Article A head for the emir: Travels in Iraqi Kurdistan By William T. Vollmann SEE ALSO: Bombings; Ethnic relations; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Journeys—Iraq—Kurdistan; Kurdistan; Kurds; Personal narratives, American; Terrorism; Vollmann, William T. PDF TEXT IMAGES
55-57	Collection Watery labyrinth By Beatrice Pediconi (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photography Untitled XXIII By Beatrice Pediconi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Paint; Water PDF IMAGES
56	Photography Untitled XVI By Beatrice Pediconi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Paint; Water PDF IMAGES
57	Photography Untitled XXII By Beatrice Pediconi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Paint; Water PDF IMAGES
59-64	Article On spectrum: My daughter, her autism, our life By Sallie Tisdale SEE ALSO: Biography; Caregivers; Learning disabilities; Tisdale, Sallie; Social service PDF TEXT IMAGES
65-70	Fiction The return By Roberto Bolaño and Chris Andrews (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
71-72	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Bauer, Arnold J.; Batuman, Elif; Eberstadt, Fernanda; Silverstein, Jake; Nothing happened and then it did (Book); Rat (Book); The possessed: adventures with Russian books and the people who read them (Book); The search for the Codex Cardona: on the trail of a sixteenth-century Mexican treasure (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
73-78	Review Use your disillusion: Arthur Koestler in the age of extremes By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Koestler, Arthur; Biography; Koestler: the literary and political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic (Book); Scammell, Michael; Novelists, English; Pictorial works; Political activists PDF TEXT IMAGES
78-82	Review Cultivated hysteria: The noir novels of David Peace By Evelyn Toynton SEE ALSO: Peace, David; Occupied city (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Alphabetical inserts By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
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MR. FISH
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Apr 6
Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi	Apr 13
Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha	Apr 20
Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	Apr 27

By Ken Silverstein

Gambling Wars	1:07 PM Apr 5
If You Voted for McCain, This Man Will Touch Your Penis	10:45 AM Apr 6
Six Questions for Mac McClelland on Burma	2:13 PM Apr 6
How Green is the iPad?	1:18 PM Apr 7
Obama’s War Powers	1:44 PM Apr 8
Two Former Senators May Find Themselves Out of Board Positions with Kyrgyz Revolution	11:16 AM Apr 9
Morris Dees: A Life Fighting Poverty	11:26 AM Apr 12
Teodoro Nguema Obiang: Part Imelda Marcos, part Cruella de Ville	11:41 AM Apr 12
Media Reaction to New Evidence Implicating Kissinger in Murder: Yawn	11:44 AM Apr 12
Clinton Donor Figures in New Halliburton Bribe Document	3:29 PM Apr 13
Funeral Decorum from Rep. Massa: Hit on attendees, yes, solicit the corpse, no	8:34 AM Apr 14
Obama: Not a Great Communicator	8:55 AM Apr 14
Bad News: banks safer than biolabs	11:57 AM Apr 15
Party Bosses and the Boss	10:39 AM Apr 16
Christopher “Dudus” Coke: Best name ever for (alleged) drug dealer	10:51 AM Apr 16
U.S. Politicos Held Offshore Accounts with UBS	10:56 AM Apr 16
More from the UBS Whistleblower	10:35 AM Apr 19
Dreaming of a Life in Hollywood? Stop	10:37 AM Apr 19
GOP’s Hawaiian Vacation: The party of spend and spend	6:30 AM Apr 21
They Oughta Pay Us	4:27 PM Apr 21
The Parties of Spend and Spend	7:10 AM Apr 22
Palin’s Financial Rise	8:40 AM Apr 26
Congress: Flying Blind on Afghanistan	8:42 AM Apr 26
Obama X	11:05 AM Apr 28
The “A” Word: Anarchy is Somalia’s recipe for success	12:03 PM Apr 28

Thursday Lamentations	7:05 AM Apr 1
A Third District Court Finds Bush Administration Engaged in Illegal Surveillance	12:47 PM Apr 1
Rapp Revisited	1:38 PM Apr 1
Disappearing Act	2:39 PM Apr 2
Descartes—The Chain of Reason	7:09 AM Apr 3
Herbert—Easter	6:05 AM Apr 4
The Ghost of Diem	10:30 AM Apr 5
Military Admits Deception in February Afghan Incident	4:17 PM Apr 5
Possible Video Emerges of 2007 Baghdad Killings	4:30 PM Apr 5
Death in the Salt Pit	3:09 PM Apr 6
In Kyrgyzstan the Tulips Turn Blood Red	10:38 AM Apr 7
Did Bush Know Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent?	9:58 AM Apr 9
Inside Central Asia–Six Questions for Dilip Hiro	11:53 AM Apr 9
Neoconfederate History Month	3:35 PM Apr 9
Conrad—The Problem with Revolutionaries	9:42 AM Apr 10
Hardy—Lines to a Movement	7:28 AM Apr 11
The Case Against Kissinger Deepens	1:00 PM Apr 12
Wild Things	5:09 PM Apr 12
Public Event: Kyrgyzstan’s Second Revolution	10:16 AM Apr 14
Destruction of CIA Tapes: Did Goss Approve?	11:26 AM Apr 16
The Poet, the Judge, and the Falangists	4:24 PM Apr 16
Brecht—Change the World!	6:56 AM Apr 17
García Lorca—The Seawater Ballad	5:26 AM Apr 18
Blackwater’s Legal Woes Mount	1:39 PM Apr 19
Department of Political Seismology	2:56 PM Apr 19
The Law of Armed Conflict: Six Questions for Gary Solis	2:22 PM Apr 20
Corrupt U.S. Contracts and the Revolution in Kyrgyzstan	11:17 AM Apr 22
Convicted Former Argentine President Sentenced to 25 Years	10:41 AM Apr 23
Goethe—The Star of Hope	8:43 AM Apr 24
Stevens—Tea at the Palaz of Hoon	6:13 AM Apr 25
New Afghan Strategies Put to the Test	10:18 AM Apr 26
Frum on NRO’s Circular Firing Squad	3:07 PM Apr 26
Your Papers, Please!	9:42 AM Apr 27
Clueless at the Pentagon	2:40 PM Apr 27
Lessons from the Failed Nomination of Dawn Johnsen	4:53 PM Apr 27
Justice Department Subpoenas Times Reporter	11:14 AM Apr 29
The Trail from a Murder in Vienna Leads to the President of Chechnya	1:39 PM Apr 29
“I Challenge Marc Thiessen”–Six Questions for Malcolm Nance	11:04 AM Apr 30

By Mr. Fish

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