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October 2011

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Roberto Parada SEE ALSO: Mormon Church; Prayer PDF IMAGES
6-7	Letters/Department Letters On Visible man, from August 2011: Letter By Fred Drumlevitch Letter By Nathaniel Borenstein On To catch a terrorist, from August 2011: Letter By Michael German On After 9/11, from August 2011: Letter By Fenwick Anderson PDF IMAGES
7	Correction Erratum By Ellen Rosenbush PDF IMAGES
8-13	Easy chair/Article Social studies By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Abortion; Abortion services; Assassination; Career as director of Operation Rescue; Career in abortion services; Civil disobedience; Culture wars; Financial crises; Tiller, George; Germantown; Carhart, Leroy; Pro-life movement; Newman, Troy PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-21	Readings/Article Radisson confidential By Jonathan Lethem SEE ALSO: Authors and readers; Biography; Canon (Literature); Congresses; Lethem, Jonathan; Science fiction, American PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Into the Blackwoods II By Andy Denzler SEE ALSO: Cottages; Lakes; Night PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Launch special SEE ALSO: Astronauts; Thirsk, Bob; Food preferences; Nutrition; Taste; Views on food for astronauts PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Never, again SEE ALSO: Spiegelman, Art; Authors and publishers; Cartoonists; Comic books, strips, etc.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Cat match fever By Ali Abdel Mohsen SEE ALSO: Al-Essawy, Al-Sayed; Career as lion trainer; Egypt; Interviews; Israel; Lions; Patriotism; Tourism PDF IMAGES
22-25	Readings/Article My brother's keeper SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Woodfox, Albert; Angola; Black Panther Party; Cain, Burl; Career as attorney; Career as prison warden; Wallace, Herman; Imprisonment; Trenticosta, Nick; Prison administration; Prison wardens; Prisoners; Wilkerson, Robert King; Solitary confinement; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo N-1 #1 By Andrea Galvani (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cats; Eyes; Night PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Family ties SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; 2001-; Nepotism; Political ethics; Popular culture; Television programs PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Body politic By Kirk Butts SEE ALSO: Fort Worth; Baals, Harry W.; Butts, Kirk; Name; Names; Public buildings PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article The blood king By Allan Hepburn Barr (Trans.) and Hua Yu SEE ALSO: Administration; Blood donors; Hospitals; 1949-1976; Peasants PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Group calling By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Capitalists and financiers; Offices PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Beatrixpark: An illumination By Anne Milano Appel (Trans.) and Dario Voltolini PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Smooth move SEE ALSO: Beauty shops; Records and correspondence; Riots PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Homage to Caspar David Friedrich By Silke Schöner SEE ALSO: Friedrich, Caspar David; Influence—Pictorial works; Lakes; Shorelines PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Poem Friday or Saturday By Jack Spicer PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Collection Readings By Irina Werning (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Male, Sil, and Flor, 1983-2010, Buenos Aires By Irina Werning (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Age factors; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Personality PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Fer Farias, 1981-2011, Buenos Aires By Irina Werning (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Age factors; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Personality; Young men PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Tommy, 1977-2010, Buenos Aires By Irina Werning (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Age factors; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Personality; Schoolboys; Young men PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Ian, 1983-2010, Buenos Aires By Irina Werning (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Age factors; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Infants; Personality; Young men PDF IMAGES
33-41	Article Pennies from heaven: How Mormon economics shape the G.O.P By Chris Lehmann SEE ALSO: Christensen, Clayton M.; Conservatism; Finance, Personal; Beck, Glenn; How to prosper during the coming bad years (Book); Ruff, Howard J.; Huntsman, Jon M.; Smith, Joseph; Skousen, Mark; Romney, Mitt; Mormon Church; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Pictorial works; Political and social views; Precious Metals; Religion; Religion and politics; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Skousen, W. Cleon (Willard Cleon); Wealth; Work ethic PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
43-49	Article Among the banana eaters: The middle-class rebels behind Libya's revolution By Patrick Graham SEE ALSO: Civil war; Government, Resistance to; Libya; Middle class; Military leadership; Qaddafi, Muammar; Revolutions PDF IMAGES
51-57	Article Leveling the field: What I learned from for-profit education By Christopher R. Beha SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Obama, Barack; Biography; Beha, Christopher R.; Education, Higher; Faculty; Federal Aid To Education; Proprietary Schools; Views on education PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
58-63	Collection Juvenile injustice By Richard Ross (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Male juvenile delinquents; Private Companies PDF IMAGES
59	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile delinquents; Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of PDF IMAGES
60	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Hawaii; Honolulu; Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Male juvenile delinquents PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile delinquents; Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Seattle; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
61	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile delinquents; Juvenile detention; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Police Vehicles; San Francisco PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Female juvenile delinquents; Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Male juvenile delinquents; Wales PDF IMAGES
62	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Male juvenile delinquents; New Orleans PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile delinquents; Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Madison PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile delinquents; Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Oregon PDF IMAGES
63	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile detention; Juvenile detention homes; Juvenile justice, Administration of; Male juvenile delinquents; Solitary confinement PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article Movies saved my life: A young New Yorker meets foreigners in film By Tom Engelhardt SEE ALSO: Biography; Foreign Films; Motion picture theaters; Motion pictures and children; Motion pictures and the war; Nineteen fifties; Nuclear warfare in motion pictures; Engelhardt, Tom PDF IMAGES
69-74	Fiction Starve a rat By Justin Torres PDF IMAGES
75-78	New books/Review New books By Zadie Smith SEE ALSO: A cruel bird came to the nest and looked in (Book); Rimbaud, Arthur; Biography; James, Jamie; Mills, Magnus; Rimbaud in Java (Book); The wild girls (Book); Le Guin, Ursula K. PDF IMAGES
78-86	Review Enter a sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's: Revision and craft By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Bishop, Elizabeth; Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: the complete correspondence (Book); Biele, Joelle; Schwartz, Lloyd; Poems (Book); Prose (Book); Prose / Elizabeth Bishop (Book); Lowell, Robert; Hamilton, Saskia; Travisano, Thomas J.; Women authors, American; Words in air: the complete correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (Book) PDF IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department New words By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
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MR. FISH
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	Oct 4
Weekly Review By Sara Breselor	Oct 11
Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha	Oct 18
Weekly Review By Jeremy Keehn	Oct 25

By Scott Horton

The Secret Al-Awlaki Memo	8:41 PM Oct 3
A Snapshot from the Age of Distraction	9:39 AM Oct 6
Secrecy: Making America Dumber and Less Democratic?	2:12 PM Oct 7
A Decade of Fear: Six Questions for Michelle Shephard	11:19 AM Oct 10
The Lieberman Material-Support Dilemma	3:11 PM Oct 20
Plato — The Origins of Democracy	1:13 PM Oct 21
Obama and Libya	9:25 AM Oct 26
Waiting for Tinkerbell in Tashkent	3:09 PM Oct 27
Gitmo Forever	1:10 PM Oct 28

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	9:21 AM Oct 7
A Cartoon	9:23 AM Oct 14
A Cartoon	10:25 AM Oct 21
A Cartoon	9:02 AM Oct 28

An Architect’s Optimism; The U.N.’s Pessimism

By John R. MacArthur

8:51 AM

Oct 21

Six Questions for Colson Whitehead By Jeremy Keehn	10:25 AM Oct 17
Notes on the For-profit University Trough By Christopher R. Beha	9:40 AM Oct 3
October Issue Web Roundup	10:46 AM Oct 5
Generally Assembled at #OccupyWallStreet By Nathan Schneider	12:16 PM Oct 7
Life, the Revolution and Everything By Patrick Graham	11:11 AM Oct 26
Drone Knowns and Drone Unknowns By Daniel Swift	12:05 PM Oct 27
An Excerpt from “I Walked with a Zombie” By Hamilton Morris	9:06 AM Oct 31
An Excerpt from “Twilight of the Vampires” By Téa Obreht	12:53 PM Oct 31

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