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August 2010

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Andy Warhol SEE ALSO: Pistols PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Doing the laundry, from May 2010: Letter By Susan E. McGregor On Letters, from June 2010: Letter By Robert Harlow On Is Sarah Palin porn?, from June 2010: Letter By Richard Hiatt Letter By Ben Goldberg Letter By John Thompson On All that glitters, from June 2010: Letter By Aaron Rich PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Improvable feasts By Alain De Botton SEE ALSO: Charity; Christianity; Communities; Forgiveness; Judaism; Lord's Supper PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-18	Readings/Article The writer is gravely ill By Chris Andrews (Trans.) and Roberto Bolaño SEE ALSO: Authors, Chilean; Barcelona; Baudelaire, Charles; Criticism and interpretation; Diagnosis; Diseases; Kafka, Franz; French poetry; Health; Liver; Poets, French; Bolaño, Roberto; Sexual behavior; Mallarmé, Stéphane PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Snow pile By Sarah Anne Johnson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Brainwashing; Grandmothers; Snow PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Crystal Boyle By Robert Boyle SEE ALSO: Creative ability in science; Creative thinking; Discoveries in science; Scientists PDF TEXT IMAGES
18	Readings/Collection Readings By George Condo PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The strangers By George Condo SEE ALSO: Strangers PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The bus driver By George Condo SEE ALSO: Bus drivers PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Smell is other people By Tina DiCarlo SEE ALSO: Career as scent designer; Detection; Fear; Interviews; Olfactometry; Tolaas, Sissel; Smell; Violence PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article La petite snort SEE ALSO: Masturbation; Physiology; Sensory stimulation; Sex oriented businesses; Sexual excitement; Sexual fantasies PDF TEXT IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The best and the brightest By Peter John R. Buchan (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Iceland; Political corruption; Political parties; Politics, Practical; Promises; Reykjavík (Iceland) PDF TEXT IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Frank talk SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Correspondence; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano); New Deal, 1933-1939; Radio broadcasting PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Condemned to delete it SEE ALSO: Career as Texas State Board of Education member; Censorship; McLeroy, Don; Membership; Textbooks PDF TEXT IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration Trying to get a handle on it By Daniel Peddle PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Salisbury stakes By Philip Breeden and Martin Longden SEE ALSO: Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomatic and consular service, British; South Africa; Wagers; World Cup (Soccer) PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Squiffy swadgers SEE ALSO: Drinking games; Rules PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article In a watery mood By J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz SEE ALSO: Coetzee, J.M.; Melancholy; Mood (Psychology); Novelists, South African; Psychology; Psychology and literature; Rationalism; Reason PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Poem A dozen dawn songs, plus one By Philip Levine PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Blue Ridge by headlights By Tom McGrath SEE ALSO: Blue Ridge Mountains PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo Lightning fields 128 By Hiroshi Sugimoto (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Electrostatics; Lightning PDF IMAGES
29-38	Article Happiness is a worn gun: My concealed weapon and me By Dan Baum SEE ALSO: Firearms; Firearms industry and trade; Firearms owners; Firearms ownership; Gun control; Purchasing; Self-defense; Shooters of firearms; Training of; Violent crimes PDF TEXT IMAGES
39-48	Article Paradise swamped: The boom and bust of the middle-class dream By Paul Reyes SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; Family; Housing development; Miami Beach (Fla.); Reyes, Paul; Real estate development; Swindlers and swindling PDF TEXT IMAGES
49-57	Article Barack and Hamid's excellent adventure: Afghanistan's president visits the White House By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Obama, Barack; Government and the press; Karzai, Hamid; Journeys—United States; Military leadership; 2009-; Press and politics; Press conferences; Press coverage PDF TEXT IMAGES
58-65	Article Cinema crudité: The mysterious appeal of the post-camp cult film By Tom Bissell SEE ALSO: Career as film director; Independent filmmakers; Wiseau, Tommy PDF IMAGES
66-68	Collection The beholders: collage by Aldwyth By Aldwyth PDF IMAGES Illustration Casablanca (classic version) By Aldwyth SEE ALSO: Casablanca (Morocco); Eye PDF IMAGES
67-68	Illustration Casablanca (classic version), detail By Aldwyth SEE ALSO: Casablanca (Morocco); Eye PDF IMAGES
69-72	Fiction Multiples of Cohen By Heidi Julavits PDF IMAGES
73-74	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Cossery, Albert; Biography; Hitchens, Christopher; Hitch-22 (Book); Spring, Justin; Wingerd, Mary Lethert; North country: the making of Minnesota (Book); Steward, Samuel M.; Secret historian: the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade (Book); The jokers (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
75-78	Review Firecrackers: Terry Castle celebrates her independence By Dave Hickey SEE ALSO: Pictorial works; Castle, Terry; The professor and other writings (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
79-82	Review Fastidious Albion: Postwar Britain keeps calm, carries on By Jenny Diski SEE ALSO: Wilson, A.N.; Kynaston, David; Family Britain (Book); Our times: the age of Elizabeth II (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Newsclippings By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
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MR. FISH
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Emily Stokes	Aug 3
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Weekly Review By Rafe Bartholomew	Aug 17

By Ken Silverstein

Doh! Bachmann spells name wrong in registering her PAC	7:30 PM Aug 25
AIG Teaches Rangel an Ethics Lesson	10:02 AM Aug 4
Goldberg’s Case for War	7:32 PM Aug 13
Why Obama Will Win Reelection: Walter Mondale	11:19 AM Aug 24
Hope and Change in the Middle East	11:30 AM Aug 5
The Tom DeLay Shakedown: Disciple learned from the master	9:59 AM Aug 4
About That “Year of the Insurgent” Narrative: And what new bogus storyline will the media find to replace it?	8:25 AM Aug 25
Jon Stewart Gives Up	11:30 AM Aug 5
Trouble for the Democrats’ Favorite Defense Lobbyist	3:06 PM Aug 6
Jeffrey Goldberg’s Convenient Facts	12:57 PM Aug 12
More on Obama’s Chances to Win Reelection	9:11 AM Aug 25
Another Congressional Perk: College scholarships for pals	10:53 AM Aug 30
David Broder Rushed to Hospital for Emergency Craniorectal Procedure	11:19 AM Aug 24
Race and the Courts	7:17 AM Aug 25
There Go The Midterms	12:18 PM Aug 4

By Scott Horton

Tales from Stasiland: The letter that makes you disappear	3:47 PM Aug 10
The Choral Fantasy	5:13 AM Aug 15
Obama’s War on Whistleblowers	1:33 PM Aug 31
Proposition 8 Overturned	10:53 AM Aug 5
Neoconned	4:56 PM Aug 3
Financing WikiLeaks	6:16 PM Aug 6
Letter from Bishkek	5:35 PM Aug 30
Kazakhgate Ends With a Whimper	10:01 AM Aug 9
Founding Fathers Address Proposed Islamic Cultural Center in Lower Manhattan	8:21 AM Aug 2
Hegel—Purpose, Results and the Philosophical Essence	3:03 AM Aug 14
In Afghanistan, A War on Corruption Falters	12:21 PM Aug 9
Dickinson—There is Another Sky	7:04 AM Aug 29
BBQ of the Century	4:33 PM Aug 27
Seven Secrets that China Would Like to Keep	3:14 PM Aug 31
Tony Judt’s Liberalism	5:24 PM Aug 9
Tales from Stasiland: The Internet Vigilantes	6:09 PM Aug 4
The Anarchic Republic of Pakistan	3:54 PM Aug 26
Our Century: A Dialogue with Helmut Schmidt and Fritz Stern (III)	5:02 PM Aug 24
The Party of Fiscal Irresponsibility	10:45 AM Aug 2
WikiLeaks: The National-Security State Strikes Back	11:25 AM Aug 3
A License to Steal	11:46 AM Aug 18
The Scapegoating of General Lavelle	10:48 AM Aug 6
The Amazing Disappearing and Reappearing CIA Torture Tapes	12:55 PM Aug 17
The Importance of Being Judgmental	1:55 PM Aug 3
Greenwald on Digital Surveillance	12:32 PM Aug 11
DOJ Pays Damages in Axion Case	3:30 PM Aug 13
More on the CIA’s Torture Doctors	11:10 AM Aug 4
Rolland—The Truth Behind National Exceptionalism	6:37 AM Aug 28
Three-Card Monte at Gitmo	6:19 PM Aug 6
How Bill O’Reilly Got a Critic Fired	2:31 PM Aug 23
False Charges Ricochet in the War on WikiLeaks	10:44 AM Aug 23
Crazy Like a Foxman	10:31 AM Aug 24
America’s Corruption Racket in Central Asia	11:04 AM Aug 26
Prosecutorial Flim-Flam at Gitmo	2:21 PM Aug 12
More on the CIA Paymaster in Kabul	10:24 AM Aug 27

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	8:20 AM Aug 19
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A Cartoon	10:18 PM Aug 31
A Cartoon	11:34 AM Aug 10

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