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January 2009

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Tim Bower SEE ALSO: Alcohol; Career as U.S. president—Pictorial works; Bush, George W. (George Walker); Physiological effect; Uncle Sam (Nickname) PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On How to Save Capitalism: Fundamental fixes for a collapsing system, from November 2008: Letter By Bert Hornback On Glide through Heathrow Terminal 5, from November 2008: Letter By Graham Sanders On Of mohawks and mavericks, from December 2008: Letter By Brian Miles Letter By Garret Keizer PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article By the rivers of Babylon By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Greenspan, Alan; Capitalists and financiers; Financial crises; Privateering; Friedman, Thomas L.; Views on financial crisis; Work ethic PDF TEXT IMAGES
11-13	Harper's index/Department Harper’s Index: A retrospective of the Bush era PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article Recantorium By Charles Bernstein SEE ALSO: American poetry; Apologizing PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Poetry Mama By Jesse Patrick Ferguson PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Poetry Origins of poetry By Joel Lipman PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Poetry Previews By Rae Armantrout PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Art/illustration Bauhaus By Peter Waite SEE ALSO: Architecture, Domestic; Architecture, Modern; Bauhaus; Chairs PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Barack to the future SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Campaign for U.S. president, 2008; Religion and politics; Religious right PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The times, they are a-changin' SEE ALSO: New York times PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article X, the scourge By Susan Sontag SEE ALSO: Diaries; Interpersonal relations; Sontag, Susan PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photography Flood at DeKalb Ave. By Annmarie Crampton (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Floods; Fluorescent lighting PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article War is helmet SEE ALSO: Brain; Computer programs; Military planning; Military policy; Research grants PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photography [Untitled Photography] By Kohei Yoshiyuki (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Parks; Sex customs; Tokyo; Voyeurism PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction My first real home By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES
26-30	Readings/Article Always another word By George Saunders, Don DeLillo, Michael Pietsch, and Zadie Smith SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Wallace, David Foster; Death and burial PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Art/illustration Country club II By Hurvin Anderson SEE ALSO: Country clubs; Trinidad PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Poetry Floating away By John Ashbery PDF IMAGES
31-35	Article The $10 trillion hangover: Paying the price for eight years of Bush By Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Appropriations and expenditures; Budget deficits; Career as U.S. president; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Debts, Public; Finance, Personal; Financial crises; Bush, George W. (George Walker); Income distribution; Iraq War, 2003- PDF IMAGES
36-42	Article Georgian roulette: Mikheil Saakashvili beckons from the brink By Peter Savodnik SEE ALSO: Career as Georgian president; Europe, Eastern; Georgia (Republic); Homes and haunts; Stalin, Joseph; Membership; Saakashvili, Mixeil; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Relations; Russia (Federation); World politics PDF TEXT IMAGES
43-50	Article Nowhere land: Along India's border, a forgotten Burmese rebellion By Siddhartha Deb SEE ALSO: Autonomy and independence movements; Burma; Insurgency; Refugees PDF TEXT IMAGES
51-57	Collection Dante, Virginia By Mike Smith (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dante; Dante (Va.); Rural children PDF IMAGES
52	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dante; Dante (Va.); Dwellings PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Clotheslines; Dante; Dante (Va.); Sneakers PDF IMAGES
53	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dante; Dante (Va.); Fires PDF IMAGES
54	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dante; Dante (Va.) PDF IMAGES
55	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dante; Dante (Va.); Tattooing PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dante; Dante (Va.); Dwellings PDF IMAGES
56	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dante; Dante (Va.) PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dante; Dante (Va.); Mannequins (Figures) PDF IMAGES
57	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Mike Smith (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Church buildings; Dante; Dante (Va.) PDF IMAGES
58-62	Article Cadets: On not flying in the Royal Air Force By Paul West SEE ALSO: Basic training (Military education); Biography; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Isle of Man; Military life; West, Paul PDF TEXT IMAGES
63-68	Fiction The Santosbrazzi killer By Heidi Julavits PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
69	Review John Leonard (1939-2008) By Jennifer Szalai SEE ALSO: Critics; Death and burial; Leonard, John PDF IMAGES
70-76	Review Go forth and falsify: Katherine Anne Porter and the lies of art By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Biography; Unrue, Darlene Harbour; Givner, Joan; Porter, Katherine Anne; Katherine Anne Porter: a life (Book); Katherine Anne Porter: collected stories and other writings (Book); Katherine Anne Porter: the life of an artist (Book); Pictorial works PDF TEXT IMAGES
76-82	Review Man of no nation: A Habsburg prince's bid for Ukraine By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Biography; Habsburg, House of; Pictorial works; The red prince: the secret lives of a Habsburg archduke (Book); Snyder, Timothy; Habsburg-Lothringen, Wilhelm PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Old news By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF TEXT IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
SENTENCES
NO COMMENT
MR. FISH
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Jan 27
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Jan 6
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Jan 20
Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha	Jan 13

By Ken Silverstein

Feds Raid Offices of Firm Tied to Murtha	8:40 PM Jan 22
The Way Florida Works	11:18 AM Jan 13
The Obama Doctrine?	10:14 AM Jan 21
More on the Murtha-related Raid	7:55 AM Jan 23
Civil Rights, Coffee and Race	1:34 PM Jan 13
Washington Post Takes Critical Look at Obama’s SEC Pick	8:47 AM Jan 7
GOP Marketing Makeover Hits Snag: How do you rebrand stupid?	8:01 AM Jan 27
The Pentagon’s Iraq Expert	8:37 PM Jan 29
Civilian To Head CIA	5:01 PM Jan 5
The Road to Hell Is Paved with Stupid Celebrity Pledges	9:30 AM Jan 21
How Bad Is The Economy?	11:43 AM Jan 9
Obama’s Promises: Seven down, about five hundred to go	8:01 AM Jan 23
And If That Last Item On The Economy Wasn’t Depressing Enough	12:00 PM Jan 9
Dennis Ross: Could he be a three-time loser?	11:33 PM Jan 7
The Gaza Fallout	6:18 PM Jan 5
The Heir Apparent in New York: At least she’s not an heiress	8:46 AM Jan 23
Big Game Hunting with John Murtha	11:05 AM Jan 25
Goldman Sachs Lobbyist Heads for Job at Treasury	9:53 AM Jan 27
Why Israel Attacked	2:27 PM Jan 4
Rules of Etiquette From the New Surgeon General: How to order tiger penis	8:40 AM Jan 8
Obama Kitsch	10:18 AM Jan 21
Obama Off To Rough Start: Gitmo closed but mispelled names mar debut	11:28 AM Jan 23
Early Test For Obama on Corporate Mergers	8:36 AM Jan 28
Regime Change or Assassination? The media mulls foreign policy options in Zimbabwe	9:21 AM Jan 8
Obama’s Middle East Dealmaker	8:48 AM Jan 14
Jeffrey Goldberg on Palestinian “Moral Failings”	12:59 PM Jan 7
Not Just Republicans Questioning Stimulus Package	8:41 AM Jan 28
Obama: Inspiring Tackiness	4:40 PM Jan 19
Scenes From Gaza	9:29 AM Jan 8
A Trip Down Memory Lane With Michael Steele	9:31 AM Jan 31
Bush Justice Department: It has a dream	4:45 PM Jan 12
Clinton Foundation Donors and Hillary’s Confirmation	12:35 PM Jan 21
Dictator Suck-Up Watch	2:15 PM Jan 23
Another Bailout for Big Banks?	8:32 AM Jan 26
Bret Baier: Why he sucks	9:28 AM Jan 6
One Administration, Two Tax Cheats	9:42 AM Jan 31
Bundling The Administration	9:55 AM Jan 26
Israeli War Correspondents	4:54 PM Jan 12
Why Richardson Withdrew: Sí Se Puede	8:59 AM Jan 5
Wall Street Tanked but Bonuses Thrived	8:50 AM Jan 29
Bookmark This	10:00 AM Jan 5
Department of Bad Ideas	11:40 AM Jan 6
Fuld’s Gold: Lehman Brothers CEO sells mansion for a tenner	3:09 PM Jan 26
Note To Retirees: If Bush Social Security plan had passed, you’d really be screwed	9:18 AM Jan 13
Non-Senator Coleman Still Hustling For Political Dollars	5:32 PM Jan 23
Slumdog Millionaires?	9:46 AM Jan 31
The Latest Obamamaniac: Commentary Magazine	10:30 AM Jan 6
Will Hayden Stay at CIA?	9:28 AM Jan 5
Voter Fraud Fraud	2:57 PM Jan 28
“I Should Have Wikipedia-ed Neville Chamberlain”: A pundit’s lament	9:32 AM Jan 13
Pay-to-Play at UNESCO	11:02 AM Jan 6
Lobbying The Inauguration	5:28 PM Jan 20
Our Man in Kabul	9:11 PM Jan 1

By Wyatt Mason

Language, Behavior, History	4:01 PM Jan 5
The Vulgar American Idiom	9:59 AM Jan 12
Ratyfeit and Found Gude	12:23 PM Jan 19
A Little Stroke of Luck	1:28 PM Jan 7
Weekend Read: “Killed in the Chase”	2:46 PM Jan 30
Weekend Read: “She is eager to trace for you”	2:27 PM Jan 23
Updike the Critic	1:52 PM Jan 28
New Year’s Read: A Whole Variegated Chorus of Yells	10:16 AM Jan 2
Perfectly Different	12:47 PM Jan 14
Love Exists, Love Exists	5:01 PM Jan 22
From Heel to Throat	5:38 PM Jan 26
The Gates of Forgetfulness	3:42 PM Jan 16

By Scott Horton

The Hunger Artist	9:28 AM Jan 9
Keeping the Knives Sharp	11:30 AM Jan 19
Augustine on the Sovereign’s Duty to Do Justice	7:41 AM Jan 17
Long Time Comin’	8:01 AM Jan 20
For the Day on Which America Turns a Page	9:13 AM Jan 20
First Words and Deeds	5:45 PM Jan 24
Kristol Meth	10:31 PM Jan 7
Six Questions for Louis Fisher, Author of The Constitution and 9/11	9:56 AM Jan 5
Two Inspired Choices for the Intel Community	12:47 PM Jan 6
What to Do About Judge Bybee?	7:14 AM Jan 16
An Epitaph for the Bush Years	6:27 PM Jan 17
The Stars and Stripes Over London	9:41 AM Jan 20
The Case for Prosecutions	11:47 PM Jan 7
Emerson’s Snow-Storm	11:57 PM Jan 24
Subpoena Issued to Karl Rove: “Time to talk”	9:53 AM Jan 27
Overseas, Expectations Build for Torture Prosecutions	1:58 PM Jan 19
Diderot—Liberating God	7:49 AM Jan 31
Herrick for Twelfth Night	8:03 AM Jan 6
Worst. President. Ever.	6:25 PM Jan 17
Spinoza—The Essence of Tyranny	12:16 AM Jan 10
Bush Justice Department Continues Harassment Campaign Against Tamm	11:08 AM Jan 7
The Insider’s Path to Bush Pardons	9:42 AM Jan 2
Seeger and Springsteen: This Land Is Your Land	10:24 AM Jan 20
What Would Cheney Do?	3:07 PM Jan 12
The Baseline	12:47 PM Jan 9
Lincoln on the Need for New Beginnings	7:40 AM Jan 20
Whitman’s Democratic Vistas	10:13 AM Jan 20
Bush’s Torture Confession	3:27 PM Jan 12
Censored by HBO?	2:03 PM Jan 19
Blair House Mystery Solved	12:09 PM Jan 7
New Hope for Justice	12:30 PM Jan 20
Herder on the Origins of Language	6:51 AM Jan 24
Wilkerson on the Cheney Shogunate	9:43 AM Jan 2
Prepare for the Robot Wars: Six questions for P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War	3:54 PM Jan 27
The Dead-Enders	9:29 AM Jan 16
Murder in Moscow	2:02 PM Jan 19
Langston Hughes—Freedom’s Plow	12:53 PM Jan 20
Prometheus the Bringer of Fire	12:02 AM Jan 11
None Dare Call it Stupidity	2:45 PM Jan 2
One Good Man Goes to Gitmo	11:24 AM Jan 21
Whitman—For You, O Democracy	7:42 AM Jan 18
More Times-Speak	11:11 PM Jan 5
L’Arte del Violino	4:13 PM Jan 4
Yoo for the Defense	2:12 PM Jan 30
Farewells, Then and Now	10:15 AM Jan 16
Forty-Four	12:26 PM Jan 20
Justice for Tom DeLay?	2:56 PM Jan 2
Another Admission: Okay, So We Tortured	10:47 AM Jan 14
Recessional for an Exiting Tyrant	7:46 PM Jan 19
A Dream Matures	12:06 AM Jan 19
A Farewell to Dick Cheney	11:15 AM Jan 10
Bush a “Total Failure” Says Former Iraqi PM	1:27 PM Jan 3
Did Bush’s Terrorist Surveillance Program Really Focus on American Journalists?	8:42 AM Jan 22
Coming Soon to the Washington Mall: The Bush Memorial	3:20 PM Jan 8
Six Questions for Edwin Burrows, Author of Forgotten Patriots	3:26 PM Jan 16
UN Rapporteur: Initiate criminal proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld now	8:21 AM Jan 21
DOJ Internal Probe Confirms Politicization, Again	11:04 AM Jan 13
Cusanus and Van Eyck: The Eye Behind the Mirror	8:58 AM Jan 3
The Inaugural Cocktail	11:38 AM Jan 18
The Smaller-than-life President?	10:56 AM Jan 4
New Mexico Delusions	9:09 AM Jan 12
Blackwater Arraignments	3:02 PM Jan 7
Herbert’s Man	9:00 AM Jan 4
A New Year’s Concert	11:48 AM Jan 1
Gitmo Guard Details Torture	11:12 AM Jan 10
A Legacy of Political Persecution	8:28 PM Jan 19
Glinda Arrives at State	2:19 PM Jan 22
Moltke–The Duty of Conscience	12:32 PM Jan 11
Olbermann Makes the Case for Prosecuting Bush and His Torture Team	10:22 PM Jan 19
The Lawless World of John Yoo	9:59 AM Jan 5
Countdown to End Torture	8:55 AM Jan 11
The Genius of Karl Rove	10:01 AM Jan 29