2003 | Harper's Magazine

The following lines were culled from Michiko Kakutani’s New York Times book reviews by Christian Lorentzen. In some cases, tenses have been changed. Limn an entire life in a couple…

Obliterate the brutes

by Harper’s Staff,

Crazy like a fox

by Harper’s Staff,

McBeth

by Harper’s Staff,

When irate Thais are smiling

by Henry, Dr. Holmes,

Quince and pomegranate

Art by Paul DuSold,

Substitution chart

by J. Robert Lennon,

The spinsters of eld

by Richard Selzer,

Archive: 2003

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Findings

Diametricode

What was lost

Stands to reason

New books

Christmas at the Rothschilds’

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence

The Place Without Roads

Small world

War of the worlds

Big World

Untitled

Readings

This emerald cubicle

The year zero

It’s not easy being green

All the necessary tools

Stage fright

Life of pie

Freedom of Information Act

After Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the Preface

Freedom’s plow

Limnphomaniac

Obliterate the brutes

Crazy like a fox

McBeth

When irate Thais are smiling

Quince and pomegranate

Substitution chart

The spinsters of eld

December 2003

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