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July 2011

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Rick Meyerowitz SEE ALSO: Gold; Hoarding of money; Metals as an investment; Purchasing PDF IMAGES
6-7	Letters/Department Letters On Why I'm a pacifist, from May 2011: Letter By Gene Ostrovsky Letter By Blake Slonecker Letter By Nicholson Baker PDF IMAGES
9-15	Easy chair/Article Gold faithful: Profiting from paranoia with precious metals By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Gold standard; Metals as an investment; Monetary policy; Speculation PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-23	Readings/Article The language of work By Mark Kingwell SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Leisure; Semantics; Terminology; Work; Work ethic; Workaholics PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Back By Mary Henderson SEE ALSO: Back; Bathing beaches; Seashore PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article What knot to wear By Anthony Lydgate (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress; Switzerland PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Exit, pursued by a bear SEE ALSO: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Mortgage loan servicing PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Death by icicle By Patrick Dacey SEE ALSO: American literature; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Saunders, George; Interviews PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Collection Readings By Dawolu Jabari Anderson PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Gator bait By Dawolu Jabari Anderson SEE ALSO: African American women; Slavery PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The grits of wrath By Dawolu Jabari Anderson SEE ALSO: African American women; Slavery PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Inglourious berds SEE ALSO: Ball, Alan; Los Angeles; Macaws; Noise pollution; Macdissi, Peter; Tarantino, Quentin; Screenwriters; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Recycle of life SEE ALSO: Energy conservation; Environmental aspects PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Canopy #5 By Ben Grasso SEE ALSO: Trees; Windfall (Forestry); Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Comedy of terrors By Sofiene Adala (Trans.) and Meryem Cherrouk (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article Turncape SEE ALSO: Comic books, strips, etc.; Superman (Fictitious character) PDF IMAGES
30-33	Readings/Fiction Last night By Colson Whitehead PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
31	Readings/Poem Space By Bill Knott PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article The monster math By Philip Munz, Ioan Hudea, Joe Imad, and Robert J. Smith SEE ALSO: Ontario; Ottawa; Zombies PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Illustration Comedian By Martin Mull SEE ALSO: Comedians PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Collection Readings By Barnaby Furnas PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Street musician (Venice Beach) By Barnaby Furnas SEE ALSO: Cigarettes; Smoking; Street music and musicians PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Smoking man By Barnaby Furnas SEE ALSO: Cigarettes; Smoking PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The mystic By Barnaby Furnas SEE ALSO: Mystics PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The twins By Barnaby Furnas SEE ALSO: Cigarettes; Smoking; Twins PDF IMAGES
35-39	Article When is a movie great? The perils of medium and magic By David Thomson SEE ALSO: Academy Awards (Motion pictures); Career as motion picture actress; Gish, Lillian; Motion picture theaters; Motion pictures PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article Ouagadougou nights: Art house meets Nollywood at Africa's greatest film festival By Christopher Vourlias SEE ALSO: Africa; Burkina Faso; Film festivals; Motion picture industry; Motion picture producers and directors; Nigeria PDF IMAGES
46-48	Article Scorsese on the cross: America's last best tragedian By Vince Passaro SEE ALSO: Career in motion pictures; Catholic Church; Conversations with Scorsese (Book); In motion pictures; Scorsese, Martin; Motion pictures; Pictorial works; Religion in motion pictures; Schickel, Richard; The last temptation of Christ (Motion picture : 1988) PDF IMAGES
49-57	Collection Uncertain exodus By Ed Ou (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Borama (Awdal, Somalia); Families; Horn of Africa; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
50	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Borama (Awdal, Somalia); Horn of Africa; Motor vehicles; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
51	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Horn of Africa; Motor vehicles; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Horn of Africa; Maintenance and repair; Motor vehicles; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
52	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Horn of Africa; Maintenance and repair; Motor vehicles; Rain and rainfall; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
53	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Hitchhiking; Horn of Africa; Motor vehicles; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Horn of Africa; Lighting; Motor vehicles; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
54	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Deserts; Horn of Africa; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Deserts; Djibouti; Horn of Africa; Illegal aliens; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
55	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border patrols; Djibouti; Horn of Africa; Illegal aliens; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Deserts; Horn of Africa; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
56	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aden, Gulf of; Beaches; Boats and boating; Djibouti; Horn of Africa; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
57	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Ed Ou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aden, Gulf of; Boats and boating; Border patrols; Djibouti; Horn of Africa; Illegal aliens; Refugees; Somalia PDF IMAGES
58-66	Article Inside the snow globe: Dodging the secret police with the last pollster in Belarus By Sam Knight SEE ALSO: Lukashenka, Aleksandr; Vardomatsky, Andrei; Belarus; Career as Belarusian pollster; Career as president of Belarus; Demonstrations; Elections; Journeys—Belarus; Public opinion polls; Knight, Sam; Social surveys PDF IMAGES
67-69	Fiction Incident in the Oriente By Paul Theroux PDF IMAGES
71-76	New books/Review New books By Zadie Smith SEE ALSO: Am I a redundant human being? (Book); Biography; Zuk, M. (Marlene); Hartwig, Mela; Sempre Susan: a memoir of Susan Sontag (Book); Sex on six legs: lessons on life, love, and language from the insect world (Book); Nunez, Sigrid; Sontag, Susan PDF IMAGES
76-83	Review Gastronomania: The beatification of our daily bread By Will Self SEE ALSO: Blood, bones & butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef (Book); Young, Chris; Andrews, Colman; Ferran: the inside story of El Bulli and the man who reinvented food (Book); Food; Hamilton, Gabrielle; Bilet, Maxime; Modernist cuisine: the art and science of cooking (Book); Myhrvold, Nathan PDF IMAGES
83-86	Review Dining with the tiger: Dublin's restaurant bubble By John Banville SEE ALSO: Dublin; Financial crises; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Restaurants PDF IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department Coordination By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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By Scott Horton

Unredacting “The Interrogator”	9:50 AM Jul 5
“The Interrogator”: Six Questions for Glenn Carle	9:28 AM Jul 5
The DSK Case Takes More Unexpected Turns	9:36 AM Jul 8
Remembering Elena Bonner	7:29 AM Jul 13
The CIA’s Secret Prison in Somalia	3:22 PM Jul 14
The DOJ’s “Gitmo Suicides” Slam	10:50 AM Jul 20
“In Defense of Flogging”: Six Questions for Peter Moskos	1:59 PM Jul 21

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	10:16 AM Jul 1
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By John R. MacArthur

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Jul 13

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By Marvin Kitman

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