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Archive: 2008

How to Save Capitalism

Fundamental fixes for a collapsing system

It all gets quite tricky

by David Foster Wallace,

No place like home

Art by Alyssa Monks,

Beat her like a lady

by Muhammad al-‘Arifi,

Love is a battlefield

by Momin Khawaja, Zeba Khan,

The imprisoner’s dilemma

by James M. Olson,

Jimmy Hoffa Bar

Art by Michele Zalopany,

Kafka, Esq.

by Ruth Hein,

The only sane man in a nuthouse

by William S. Burroughs,

Without feathers

by Ed Newcomer,

Winter was hard 9

Art by Mara Korkola,

4504 Van Nuys Boulevard

Art by Marc Trujillo,

Death and the Maiden

by Mark Greif,

The American Void

by Simon Critchley,

From remarks delivered at the American Political Science Association in Boston on August 30 and at the New School in New York City on September 18. Critchley is the chair…

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Creative destruction

by Roger D. Hodge,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

In memoriam

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

Art by Ray Bartkus,

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Scientists bred a race of lazy mice, gave sedentary mice a drug that provided them with the benefits of exercise, created sleepless fruit flies, stopped mouse livers from aging, gave…

Playfair square (“just kidding”)

by Harper’s Staff,

Godard the Obscure

by J. Hoberman,

What happened to the icon of ’68?

The long goodbye

by Arthur Krystal,

Notes on a never-ending decade

New books

by John Leonard,

Passing on

by John Edgar Wideman,

Breath

by John Edgar Wideman,

Trouble

by John Edgar Wideman,

Writing

by John Edgar Wideman,

Haiku

by John Edgar Wideman,

Paris morning

by John Edgar Wideman,

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