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April 2008

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	Art/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; God; Proof; Religion and science PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Monkey shines By Jina Moore NV (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Austria; Chimpanzees PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photography Understory flareups By Laura McPhee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Idaho; Wildfires PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Poetry Encyclopedia of horror By Charles Simic PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The destiny of Borges By Tomás Abraham, Alejandro Rússovich, Enrique Eduardo Marí, and Jennifer Acker (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Argentina; Authors, Argentine; Books and reading; Buenos Aires; Interviews; Borges, Jorge Luis; Last years; Literature PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Photography 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/Art/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/Art/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/Poetry Red fog By Leonard Schwartz PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Collection Readings By Sandow Birk PDF IMAGES Readings/Art/illustration Obsession By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Compulsive behavior; Military policy; Recruiting, enlistment, etc.; War PDF IMAGES Readings/Art/illustration Investigation By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Legislative hearings; Military policy; Politics and war; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES Readings/Art/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; 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

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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

Ten Issues That Will Decide the McCain-Obama Election Is McCain Bob Dole or is Obama Michael Dukakis?	9:27 AM Apr 21
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
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
Administrative Note	11:20 AM Apr 2
Bloggers and the Middle East, Continued	10:05 AM Apr 21
Book Debate at TPM Cafe	3:00 PM Apr 29
Campaign ’08 and Howard Dean’s Tears	10:12 AM Apr 24
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
When You Hear the Word “Freedom,” Reach For your Wallet	8:01 AM Apr 18
Army Granting More “Waivers” for Criminals, Drug Abusers	8:29 AM Apr 22
Obama Roundup: Reverend Wright and Robert Blackwell	10:34 AM Apr 30
Hillary: We’ll “totally obliterate” Iran	9:02 AM Apr 22
Bloggers and Double Standards	8:29 AM Apr 15
The Best Bias Money Can Buy	5:34 PM Apr 15
Need Stock Advice? Congressman Peter Hoekstra May Have Some Tips	10:57 AM Apr 22
Ethics Reform Marches On	2:03 PM Apr 24
Jimmy Carter, Hamas, and the Media	12:43 PM Apr 16
The “Stupidest Guy on the Face of the Earth” Points Fingers	7:42 AM Apr 25
Top Democratic Strategist Ensnared in Scandal (Not Really)	12:45 PM Apr 18
Charlie and George at ABC: Lame and Lamer	7:36 AM Apr 17
Obama to Azeri Dictator: Set Our Big Macs Free	8:58 AM Apr 25
Headline of the Week	1:36 PM Apr 25
McCain and the “Reform” Institute	3:37 PM Apr 11
A Reader Notes: Israel and Hamas Already Talking	8:28 AM Apr 17
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
Return of the Pentagon’s Media Surrogates	11:20 AM Apr 20
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
Wal-Mart Political Videos: The ABCs of Buying Influence	7:49 AM Apr 23

By Scott Horton

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

By Mr. Fish

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

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
Questions for Errol Morris By W.J.T. (W.J. Thomas) Mitchell	12:35 PM Apr 24

Readings and Remarks: The Harper’s Magazine 150th anniversary, 2000

Video from the 150th Anniversary celebration of Harper's Magazine. Introductory remarks by Robert Polito, John R. MacArthur, and Lewis H. Lapham. Remarks by Annie Dillard, Readings by David Foster Wallace, Mary Gaitskill, Darcy Frey, George Plimpton, Fenton Johnson, George Saunders, Allan Gurganus, Richard Rodriguez, Pico Iyer, Seymour Hersh, and Tom Wolfe.

Above: George Saunders reads from "The 400-pound C.E.O."

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