Harper's Magazine: August 2011

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August 2011

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Roger Black and Scott MacNeill SEE ALSO: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Tsunamis; World Trade Center (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Why I'm a pacifist, from May 2011: Letter By Rafael Medoff On Life in the zone, from June 2011: Letter By Ralph Nader On Into the unforeseen, from June 2011: Letter By Esther Allen On Being Blanche, from June 2011: Letter By John Sanbonmatsu Letter By Ashton Applewhite PDF IMAGES
7-11	Easy chair/Article The age of Enron By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Corporations; Deregulation; Enron Corp.; Financial crises; Fiscal policy; Floor traders (Finance); Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article Into the forbidden zone By William T. Vollmann SEE ALSO: Accidents; Earthquakes; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Health aspects; Journeys—Japan; Nuclear power plants; Radioactive pollution; Tsunamis; Vollmann, William T. PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Collection Readings By Nicola Tyson PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Signature piece By Nicola Tyson SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Figure with arms raised By Nicola Tyson SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Poem The sandhill cranes of Nebraska By Billy Collins PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article All the publicist's men SEE ALSO: Errors, inventions, etc.; Library; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration STUDIO By Philipp Hennevogl PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Law & odor By Brian Banda SEE ALSO: Air; Environmental conditions; Flatulence; Chaponda, George; Interviews—Humor; Pollution; Views on odor control—Humor PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A vengeful affair By Ryann Liebenthal (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Patraeus, David Howell; Interviews; Military leadership; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Peace; Qaida (Organization); Cowper-Coles, Sharard; The Taliban; Views on Afghan War PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Censor sensibility SEE ALSO: Career as British attorney general; Career as restaurant critic; Career as speaker of British House of Commons; Grieve, Dominic; Extraordinary remedies; Freedom of speech; Coren, Giles; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; Injunctions; Bercow, John; Online social networks; Privacy; Giggs, Ryan; Sexual behavior; Soccer players; Twitter PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article That's sic SEE ALSO: New words; Baker, Nicholson; Style manuals; Words, New PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Insider art SEE ALSO: Bolt, Agnes; Art patrons; Artists' contracts; Career as art collector; Career as performance artist; Collectors and collecting; Exhibitions; Homes and haunts; Hughes, Philippa; Women art collectors PDF IMAGES
25-29	Readings/Fiction Whites By Julie Otsuka PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Ojigi (detail) By Karen LaMonte SEE ALSO: Kimonos PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration House for singing By Brian Maguire SEE ALSO: Auditoriums; Centers for the performing arts; Music-halls; Theaters PDF IMAGES
31-36	Article Visible man: Ethics in a world without secrets By Peter Singer SEE ALSO: Electronic surveillance; Facebook; Assange, Julian; Leaks (Disclosure of information); Online social networks; Privacy; Transparency in government; Views on leaks; WikiLeaks (Organization) PDF IMAGES
37-44	Article To catch a terrorist: The FBI hunts for the enemy within By Petra Bartosiewicz SEE ALSO: Domestic terrorism; Imprisonment; Hossain, Mohammed; Muslims; Prevention; Terrorism; Trials (Terrorism); Undercover operations; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Aref, Yassin PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
46-50	Article After 9/11: The limits of remembrance By David Rieff SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Memorials; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; World Trade Center (New York, New York) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
51-57	Collection The things they carry By Steve Mumford PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Bombs; Helmand; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
52	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Helmand; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Helmand; Pictorial works; United States. Marine Corps; Johnson, Wesley PDF IMAGES
53	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Helmand; Journalists; Green, Matthew; Afghan, Mike; Pictorial works; Translators PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Helmand; Military weapons; Pictorial works; Hernandez, Ricardo; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
54	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Morphis, Dan; Helmand; Pictorial works; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Helmand; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
55	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Families; Helmand; Mortality; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Helmand; Tribal government; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
56	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Helmand; Sandstorms; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Walker, Aaron; Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Murghdau, Alex; Combat patrols; Helmand; Pictorial works; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
57	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Helmand; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
58-64	Article The luckiest woman on earth: Three ways to win the lottery By Nathaniel Rich SEE ALSO: Career as lottery winner; Gambling; Gambling systems; Ginther, Joan R.; Lotteries; Lottery winners; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
65-68	Article Summer people: The royalty of Wellfleet woods By Justin Kaplan SEE ALSO: Biography; Cape Cod (Mass.); Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia; Family; Homes and haunts—Massachusetts—Wellfleet; Kaplan, Justin; Chavchavadze, Nina; Russians; Soviets (People); Wellfleet PDF IMAGES
69-72	Fiction The losing end By Bonnie Nadzam PDF IMAGES
73-76	New books/Review New books By Zadie Smith SEE ALSO: At last (Book); St. Aubyn, Edward PDF IMAGES
77-81	Review The Tomist: Francis Fukuyama's infinite regression By Mark Kingwell SEE ALSO: Fukuyama, Francis; Political science; The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the French Revolution (Book) PDF IMAGES
82-86	Review After all these years: The remastery of Paul Simon By David Yaffe SEE ALSO: Simon, Paul; Pictorial works; So beautiful or so what (Book) PDF IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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“The Anatomy of Influence”: Six Questions for Harold Bloom	12:46 PM Aug 11
Justice Department Rolls Snake Eyes in Alabama Gambling Trial	9:37 AM Aug 15
Solov'ëv and the Eternal Struggle with Evil	2:32 PM Aug 18
The CIA’s Censorship Machine	12:52 PM Aug 29

By Mr. Fish

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