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Archive: 2008

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

High testosterone levels were correlated with financial risk-taking in men, were found to make men prefer feminine women and make women prefer masculine men, and were induced in both men…

Foursomes

by Harper’s Staff,

What Edith knew

by Elizabeth Lowry,

Freeing Wharton from the master's shadow

More Is More

by Francine Prose,

Roberto Bolaño’s magnum opus

New books

by John Leonard,

White-Bread Jesus

by Robert Coover,

When that bully Cavanaugh rises in the middle of the opening prayer like a self-righteous Sadducee, shouldered round by all his fawning scribes and elders, to silence Reverend Wesley Edwards…

The golden touch

by Mattathias Schwartz,

Rolling with lords of the craps table

A really big show

by Suki Kim,

The New York Philharmonic's fantasia in North Korea

Justice After Bush

by Scott Horton,

Prosecuting an outlaw administration

Mandela’s Smile

by Breyten Breytenbach,

Notes on South Africa

The geopolitics of energy sustainability

by Harper’s Staff,

A thought-leadership panel discussion

Readings

by David Maisel,

For the prevention of speed

by James Sitar,

Two elders seated

Art by Jayne Holsinger,

The good life

by Harper’s Staff,

You better not pout

by Harper’s Staff,

Rabbi is rich

by Levi Brackman, Sam Jaffe,

Campsite, Flumsberg, Switzerland, 2004

Art by Matthias Zielfeld,

“Sii romantico, Seidel, tanto per cambiare”

by Frederick Seidel,

Nausea

by Michel Houellebecq, Bernard-Henri Lévy,

To Caspar David Friedrich

Art by Enrique Romero Santana,

Bismarck’s dream

by Arthur Rimbaud,Translated by Wyatt Mason,

The omnivore’s dilemma

by Z. Ignatovich,Translated by Joshua Yaffa,

Wind River Canyon, Thermopolis, Wyoming

by Kevin Cooley,

The men he didn’t like

by Will Rogers,

Utopia falls

by John Gray,

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Of Mohawks and Mavericks

by Garret Keizer,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

Art by Steve Brodner,

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