Harper's Magazine: November 2010

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November 2010

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tony Healey SEE ALSO: Boxing matches; Cable News Network; Fox News; Pictorial works; Murdoch, Rupert; Turner, Ted; Television and politics PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On The war on unhappiness, from September 2010: Letter By Art Caspary Letter By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Letter By Gordon Yanchyshyn PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Figures of speech By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as Harper's editor; Essay; Lapham, Lewis H. PDF TEXT IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-18	Readings/Article The Julius Campe prize By Carol Brown Janeway (Trans.) and Thomas Bernhard SEE ALSO: Automobile ownership; Biography; Literary prizes; Novelists, Austrian; Bernhard, Thomas; Traffic accident victims PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Urlaub in Saig By Marc Grümmert (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Black Forest (Germany); Holidays PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Triumph of the wheel By Natascha Hoffmeyer (Trans.) and Adolf Hitler SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Correspondence; Imprisonment; Werlin, Jakob; Mein kampf (Book); Mercedes automobile; Purchasing PDF TEXT IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Revision accomplished SEE ALSO: Historiography; Iraq War, 2003-; Wikipedia PDF TEXT IMAGES
20	Readings/Illustration Colony By Justin Mortimer SEE ALSO: Colonies; Environmental aspects; Industries; Pollution PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Stumped speech By Chris Haire SEE ALSO: Greene, Alvin; Career in South Carolina politics; Education, Higher; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Interviews; United States. Congress. Senate PDF TEXT IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article School of Hard Knocks SEE ALSO: Abuse of; High school students; Middle school students; Police brutality; School children; Schools; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES
22	Readings/Article The way they are By Ian Rivers SEE ALSO: Abuse of; School children PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Straight outta Berkeley By Tyrone Hayes SEE ALSO: Atrazine; Berkeley; Career as biologist; Electronic mail messages; Environmental aspects; Ethics; Faculty; Frogs; Rules and practice; Syngenta (Firm); Hayes, Tyrone; United States. Environmental Protection Agency; University of California, Berkeley PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Cloacadoodledoo SEE ALSO: Chicken industry; Contamination; Egg trade; Factory farms; Food contamination; Iowa; Sanitation PDF TEXT IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Rooster and turkey (after Hondecoeter) By Shelley Reed SEE ALSO: Aggressive behavior in animals; Roosters; Turkeys PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings By Lydia Davis PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The cook's lesson By Lydia Davis PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Fiction The visit to the dentist By Lydia Davis PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The coachman and the worm By Lydia Davis PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings By Uljana Wolf PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem well~~~e wink wink wink~el By Susan Bernofsky (Trans.) and Uljana Wolf SEE ALSO: Wolf, Uljana; “well~~~e wink wink wink~el” (Poem) PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem The applicant By Timothy Donnelly (Trans.) and Uljana Wolf SEE ALSO: Wolf, Uljana; “well~~~e wink wink wink~el” (Poem) PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Winkle By Ute Schwartz (Trans.) and Uljana Wolf SEE ALSO: Wolf, Uljana; “well~~~e wink wink wink~el” (Poem) PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem This wave is a wave goodbye By Matthea Harvey (Trans.) and Uljana Wolf SEE ALSO: Wolf, Uljana; “well~~~e wink wink wink~el” (Poem) PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Fiction The chairs By Lydia Davis PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Pouchet's wife By Lydia Davis PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Suez Canal, Egypt By David Burdeny (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Suez Canal (Egypt) PDF IMAGES
29-35	Article Murdoch triumphant: How we could have stopped him—twice By Marvin Kitman SEE ALSO: Cable News Network; Cable television; Career as founder of Cable News Network; Foreign ownership; Fox News; Freedom of speech; Government policy; Licenses; Mass media; Objectivity; Political and social views; Murdoch, Rupert; Turner, Ted; Television and politics; Television broadcasting; Television broadcasting of news; Television stations; United States. Federal Communications Commission PDF TEXT IMAGES
36-52	Article A good death: Exit strategies By William T. Vollmann SEE ALSO: Assisted suicide; Suffering PDF TEXT IMAGES
53-57	Collection As we this garden By Beth Dow (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Beth Dow (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bishopville; Career in topiary work—Pictorial works; Landscape gardening; Fryar, Pearl; Plants; Topiary work; Training PDF IMAGES
54	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Beth Dow (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bishopville; Career in topiary work—Pictorial works; Landscape gardening; Fryar, Pearl; Plants; Topiary work; Training PDF IMAGES
55	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Beth Dow (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bishopville; Career in topiary work—Pictorial works; Landscape gardening; Fryar, Pearl; Plants; Topiary work; Training PDF IMAGES
56	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Beth Dow (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bishopville; Career in topiary work—Pictorial works; Landscape gardening; Fryar, Pearl; Plants; Topiary work; Training PDF IMAGES
57	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Beth Dow (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bishopville; Career in topiary work—Pictorial works; Landscape gardening; Fryar, Pearl; Plants; Topiary work; Training PDF IMAGES
58-66	Article Twilight of the vampires: Hunting the real-life undead By Téa Obreht SEE ALSO: Career as vampire; Croatia; Journeys—Balkan Peninsula; Blagojevic, Petar; Serbia and Montenegro; Obreht, Téa; Vampires PDF TEXT IMAGES
67-74	Fiction Rangoon Green By Barry Hannah PDF TEXT IMAGES
75-76	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Apollo's angels: a history of ballet (Book); By nightfall (Book); Frazier, Ian; Homans, Jennifer; Dawson, Jill; Cunningham, Michael; The great lover (Book); Travels in Siberia (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
77-81	Review Heartache and the thousand natural shocks: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom By Christine Smallwood SEE ALSO: Freedom (Book); Jonathan Franzen PDF TEXT IMAGES
81-86	Review Next year in Cleveland: Soviet Jewry's exodus and diaspora By David Bezmozgis SEE ALSO: Beckerman, Gal; Jews; When they come for us we'll be gone: the epic struggle to save Soviet Jewry (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department Crazy quilt By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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