Harper's Magazine: January 2011

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January 2011

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tomer Hanuka SEE ALSO: Alcoholics; Alcoholics Anonymous; Devil; Twelve-step programs PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Figures of speech, from November 2010: Letter By Richard Hiatt On Murdoch triumphant, from November 2010: Letter By Ronald L. Trowbridge Letter By Stephen Brodsky Note/correction On A good death, from November 2010: Letter By Terrence O'Keefe Letter By Carol Keeley Letter By Martin Negrón Letter By Bob Katrin Letter By Katrina Hedberg PDF IMAGES
7-9	Easy chair/Article The fatal center By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Elite (Social sciences); Financial crises; Moderation; 2009-; Political parties; Power (Social sciences); Radicalism; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Right and left (Political science); Tea Party movement PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article Holding Harlem By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts SEE ALSO: City planning; Harlem (New York, New York); Housing development; Urban renewal; Watchtowers; Zoning law PDF IMAGES
14-15	Readings/Illustration Restless by nature By Patrick Dougherty SEE ALSO: Iowa; Sculpture; Willows PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Castro's list By Wes Enzinna (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Civil service; Cuba; Dismissal of; Layoff systems; Legal status, laws, etc.; Officials and employees; Privatization PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Article Objection d'art By Anthony Lydgate (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Upinsky, Arnaud-Aaron; Art, Japanese; Art museums; Career as director of Versailles museum; Correspondence; Exhibitions; Japanese influences; Aillagon, Jean-Jacques; Sarkozy, Nicolas; Charie-Marsaines, Pierre; Murakami, Takashi; Versailles PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Don't mention the war SEE ALSO: Multiculturalism; National characteristics; Tourism PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article Motion denied SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Kratz, Kenneth; Public prosecutors; Sexual harassment of women; Van Groll, Stephanie PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article After the fall By Barbara Dabrowska (Trans.) and Tom Littlewood SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents; Koepcke, Juliane; Peru; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.; Views on surviving aircraft accident PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Interactivist judges SEE ALSO: Cases; Children and sex; Children and violence; Freedom of speech; Minors; Questions and answers; United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment; United States. Supreme Court; Video games and children PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Photo Paradise now 18 By Peter Bialobrzeski (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Effect of human beings on; Growth; Nature; Paradise PDF IMAGES
23-26	Readings/Article Radical will By Deb Olin Unferth SEE ALSO: Biography; Catholic Church; Central America; Civil war; Unferth, Deb Olin; El Salvador; 1979-1992; Revolutionaries; Travel—Central America PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Mirror By Dean Byington SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Dwellings; Landscapes; Mirrors PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Poem If I were Tomaz Salamun By Clare Cavanagh (Trans.) and Adam Zagajewski PDF IMAGES
28-38	Article The drunk's club: A.A., the cult that cures By Clancy W. Martin SEE ALSO: Alcoholics; Alcoholics Anonymous; Alcoholism; W., Bill; Career as founder of Alcoholics Anonymous; Christianity; Twelve-step programs PDF IMAGES
39-44	Article Disappearing ink: Afghanistan's sham democracy By Matthieu Aikins SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Democracy; Elections; International cooperation; 2001-; Political participation PDF IMAGES
45-49	Article The enveloping air: Light and moment in Monet By John Berger SEE ALSO: Monet, Claude; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Impressionism (Art); Light in art; Time in art PDF IMAGES
50-52	Article Keeping watch: The South African past as prologue By Lynn Freed SEE ALSO: Apartheid; Biography; Children and violence; Freed, Lynn; South Africa; Whites PDF IMAGES
53-60	Article A shtetl divided: Messianic vigilantes, brawling Hasidim, and the battle for Jewish Brooklyn By Matthew Shaer SEE ALSO: Brooklyn (New York, New York); Career as Lubavitcher Rebbe; Hasidim; Jews; Schneerson, Menachem Mendel; Vendetta; Vigilantes PDF IMAGES
61-64	Fiction The hare's mask By Mark Slouka PDF IMAGES
65-66	New books/Review New Books By Lorin Stein SEE ALSO: Biography—Book reviews; Plowden, David; How to live: a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer (Book); Montaigne, Michel de; Pictorial works; Requiem for steam: the railroad photographs of David Plowden (Book); Bakewell, Sarah; The ultimate guide to cunnilingus: how to go down on a woman and give her exquisite pleasure (Book); Blue, Violet PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
67-73	Review Between insanity and fat dullness: How I became an Emersonian By Phillip Lopate SEE ALSO: Emerson: selected journals 1820-1842 (Book); Emerson: selected journals 1841-1877 (Book); Rosenwald, Lawrence Alan; Pictorial works; Emerson, Ralph Waldo PDF IMAGES
73-78	Review Age of exuberance: The lost grandeur of the Gilded interior By James Fenton SEE ALSO: Artistic circles: design and decoration in the aesthetic movement (Book); Gere, Charlotte; Interior decoration; Muthesius, Stefan; The poetic home: designing the 19th-century domestic interior (Book) PDF IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Ring in the new year By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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