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Wait and watch awhile (high)

Wait and watch awhile (high) was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Paul Wackers's work will be on view in June at Narwhal gallery in Toronto. Courtesy the artist and A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A Bangladeshi building collapses, George W. Bush’s presidential library opens, and koala chlamydia ravages Australia

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Mentions

Barbara Ehrenreich on Breast Cancer

A recent New York Times Magazine feature recalls Barbara Ehrenreich's November 2001 story, "Welcome to Cancerland"

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Untitled (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in Background)

"Untitled (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in Background)" is now on view as part of At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Eggleston's work was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Photograph © Eggleston Artistic Trust

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Perspective

On Congressional Kayfabe

The similarities between the political response to tragedy and professional wrestling

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Art

Dawn 15

“Dawn 15” was on view last December at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery in New York City. The artist produced his DAWN series while living five months a year for four years in a hut near the summit of Mount Fuji in Japan. Image courtesy the artist and Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York City

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Studio Window

Balint Zsako’s Birds of America

A collage series after John James Audubon’s Birds in America

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Honors

Harper’s Photo Essay Wins Overseas Press Club Award

Harper’s Magazine congratulates Samuel James, winner of the 2012 Olivier Rebbot Award for his photo essay "The Water of My Land"

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A manhunt in Massachusetts, the Gitmo hunger strike grows, and the cause of earthquakes in Iran

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Appraisal

Terrence Malick’s Song of Songs

Does To the Wonder reveal a director lost in his own vision?

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Postcard

Peppard’s Folly

A curious sculpture in the Kansas town that Roger Barker made his laboratory

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Six Questions

A History of Future Cities

Daniel Brook on the lessons of four great Eastern cities that sought to imitate the West

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Publisher’s Note

No Reward for Being Right on Iraq

Where were the voices of conscience on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War?

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Browsings

The Lady in Rose-Colored Glow

Willa Cather’s sole surviving letter to Edith Lewis

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Perspective

On Meeting Our Meat

Going undercover at a slaughterhouse in an age of agribusiness gag laws

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A bombing at the Boston Marathon, a gun suicide at an NRA-sponsored event, and Anne Frank’s beliebf

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Browsings

Triple-Slur Score

Words dropped from recent editions of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

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Editor's Note

Introducing the May Issue of Harper’s Magazine

The twenty-first-century Jungle, a U.S. official's dubious lobbying in Afghanistan, and more

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No Comment

A Final Act for the Guantánamo Theater of the Absurd?

A new report from Seton Hall University exposes government surveillance of attorney–client conversations

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Suggestion

Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America

Imagining a renewed role for poetry in the national discourse — and a new canon

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At the Bassmasters Classic

With Kevin Van Dam at the Bassmasters Classic in Shreveport, Louisiana, February 24–25, 2012. Photograph by Misty Keasler

For more, see "The Super Bowl! (Of Fishing)," by Paul Wachter, in the April 2013 issue of Harper's Magazine.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Oil spills, the Iron Lady, and Barbie’s Berlin Dreamhouse

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Mentions

Dan Baum Debates Joe Nocera in the New York Times

An exchange on the fine points of gun safety, the kinds of gun-control laws America should pass, and the need for a moderate counterpart to the National Rifle Association

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Repose, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

"Repose, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia," a photograph by Charlotte Dumas, whose work was featured in the April Readings section. Dumas's Anima series, which depicts the burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery as they fall asleep at night, was on view in March at Julie Saul Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York City

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Perspective

On Rand Paul and the Libertarian–Statist Divide

Why establishment Democrats and Republicans fear Rand Paul

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Official Business

Harper’s Shortlisted for Four 2013 National Magazine Awards

Our thanks and congratulations to the contributors honored for their work for Harper's Magazine in 2012.

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Art

At the Bassmasters Classic

With Kevin Van Dam at the Bassmasters Classic in Shreveport, Louisiana, February 24–25, 2012. Photograph by Misty Keasler

For more, see "The Super Bowl! (Of Fishing)," by Paul Wachter, in the April 2013 issue of Harper's Magazine.

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