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Harper’s Magazine [v306, #1832, January 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 30 · The Project · David Means · ss Alaska Quarterly Review Spr/Sum 2002 81 · The Hay Behind the House · Frederick Busch · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v306, #1833, February 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, slick) Lethem’s is remembrance of his aunt, children’s writer and Humpty Dumpty contributor Wilma Leo, almost as much as a consideration of professional failure and all-is-trash/everything-is-personal critic/novelist/autobiographer Edward Dahlberg, once her discouraging writing instructor. Details supplied by Todd Mason. 24 · Behold the Coach · Will Eno · pl Post Road Spr/Sum 2002 26 · Mother in the Trenches · Robert Olen Butler · ss Story Quarterly 2002 49 · The Disappointment Artist · Jonathan Lethem · ar 60 · Rocket Day · Ron Carlson · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v306, #1834, March 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 28 · I Look Rudimentary · Sandra Newman · ex; from The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done forthcoming from Harper (May, 2003).

Harper’s Magazine [v306, #1835, April 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 96pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 30 · Concentricities · Tony Whedon · pm; revised from “Trancendentalism” as published in Iowa Review, Fall 2002. 73 · Ajax Is All About Attack · Jim Shepard · ss; illustrated by Jacko Vassilev

Harper’s Magazine [v306, #1836, May 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 69 · Roman Berman, Massage Therapist · David Bezmozgis · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v306, #1837, June 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 21 · The Hotel · Robert Walser; translated by Dominic Le Fave · vi Jubilat Fll/Win 2002 63 · Grace · Paula Fox · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v307, #1838, July 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 26 · This Is Not a Toy · Eula Biss · ss The Bellingham Review Win/Spr 2003, as “The Only Professional Player of the Toy Piano, Margaret Leng Tan” 75 · Birthday Girl · Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Rubin · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v307, #1839, August 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 30 · The Missing Man · J. Robert Lennon · ss 86 · Mr. Simmons Takes a Prisoner · Deb Olin Unferth · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v307, #1840, September 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 92pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 13 · Clause 21 · Oz Shelach · ex; (Picnic Grounds, City Lights 2003). 22 · I Remember · Wardog · es; (from The Beat Within, “a weekly journal of prose and art from juvenile halls and prisons”). 25 · Tattoos · Rafael Perez Estrada · vi; vignettes (translated from the Spanish by Steven J. Stewart) from Jubilat, Fall/Winter 2003. 28 · Prayer to the Aardwolf · Christopher Janke · pm; (from magazine Verse, V. 19, N. 1 & 2). 31 · Family Statement · Alison Bundy · vi; (from Chicago Review, Spring 2003). 72 · The Moment They Were Waiting For · Ken Kalfus · ss; illustrated by Odd Nerdrum

Harper’s Magazine [v307, #1841, October 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 16 · Marriage · Melanie Sumner · ss 26 · The Reach of Wonder · David Coley · ss Southwest Review v86 #4 2001 87 · Song · Stuart Dybek · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v307, #1842, November 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 30 · Amor Perdida · Tennessee Williams · ss Michigan Quarterly Review Sum 2003 61 · The Two of Them · Annie Dillard · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v307, #1843, December 2003] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 104pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 11 · Notebook: Pilgrim’s Progress · Lewis Lapham · ed [George Plimpton]; (obituary for George Plimpton). 18 · Substitution Chart · J. Robert Lennon · hu; (from online magazine Lamination Colony, October 2003). 24 · Freedom’s Plow: testimony before the Senate Committee on Government Operations’ Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Joseph McCarthy · Langston Hughes, Roy Cohn & Everett Dirksen · ex 28 · Did You Know? · Jeff Johnson · hu; (from Fence, Spring/Summer 2003). 31 · The Year Zero · Peter Verhelst; translated by Sherry Marx · ex; (trans. from the Dutch, Tonguecat, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 2003). 65 · What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence · John Edgar Wideman · ss; illustrated by Danjiel Zezelj

Harper’s Magazine [v308, #1844, January 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 71 · The Criminal Mastermind Is Confirmed · Peter Ho Davies · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v308, #1845, February 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham No fiction.

Harper’s Magazine [v308, #1846, March 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 100pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 65 · Rastrow’s Island · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss; illustrated by Stan Fellows

Harper’s Magazine [v308, #1847, April 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 100pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 22 · À L’Americaine · Anton Chekhov; translated by Peter Constantine · es Conjunctions #40 2003 24 · Be Gone, Demons · Saddam Hussein; translated by Jack Fairweather · ex 2004 28 · Episode from History · Alison Bundy · ss The Kenyon Review Win 2004 72 · The Broad Estates of Faith · Paula Fox · ss; illustrated by Steven Dana

Harper’s Magazine [v308, #1848, May 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 29 · Delta Interval · Drew Johnson · ss Story Quarterly 2003 81 · Soldiers Weep · Daniel Orozco · ss

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Harper’s Magazine [v309, #1850, July 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 96pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 31 · Strangely Familiar · Anon. · ms; cliches from a list published by Strange Horizons, the online SF magazine. 32 · Three Pieces for the Left Hand · J. Robert Lennon · vi Granta Spr 2004, as “Eight Pieces for the Left Hand” 59 · The Cousins · Joyce Carol Oates · ss; illustrated by Jennifer Renninger

Harper’s Magazine [v309, #1851, August 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 92pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 25 · Against the American Grain · Charles Wright · pm Irish Pages Spr/Sum 2003 63 · Sault Ste. Marie · David Means · ss; illustrated by Alexandra Rowley 75 · New Books · John Leonard · br; illustrated by Lee Friedlander __ · Orhan Panuk SNOW (Knopf) · John Leonard · br __ · Maureen Howard THE SILVER SCREEN (Viking) · John Leonard · br __ · Ward Just AN UNFINISHED SEASON (Houghton Mifflin) · John Leonard · br 77 · Flying Up and Flying Down: The Rise and Fall of the American Superhero, by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko & Alex Ross · Wyatt Mason · br __ · Sean Howe, ed. GIVE OUR REGARDS TO THE ATOMSMASHERS! WRITERS ON COMICS (Pantheon 2004) · Wyatt Mason · br __ · Arlen Schumer THE SILVER AGE OF COMIC BOOK ART (Collectors Press 2003) · Wyatt Mason · br __ · Chipp Kidd and Geoff Spear MYTHOLOGY: THE DC COMICS ART OF ALEX ROSS (Pantheon 2003) · Wyatt Mason · br

Harper’s Magazine [v309, #1852, September 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 100pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 26 · You Will Never Understand · Tony Kushner · ex; (from play HOMEBODY/KABUL, 2000, revised 2004; Theater Communications Group Press). 26 · The Irresistable Beauty of All Things · Federico Garcia Lorca · ex; (from lecture “Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion” as reconstructed from newspaper accounts and translated by Christopher Maurer) from magazine JUBILAT #7. 57 · In Defiance of Gravity · Tom Robbins · es; (illus. Alexander Calder’s “Acrobat”) 62 · The Influence of Anxiety: What’s the Problem with Young Adult Novels? · Frances FitzGerald · es; illustrated by Leigh Wells 71 · Commission · Tim Winton · ss; illustrated by Alan Baker 85 · New Books __ · Stephen Greenblatt WILL IN THE WORLD: HOW SHAKESPEARE BECAME SHAKESPEARE (Norton, 2004) · John Leonard · br __ · Nicholas Murray KAFKA (Yale, 2004) · John Leonard · br __ · Adam Feinstein PABLO NERUDA, A PASSION FOR LIFE (Bloomsbury, 2004) · John Leonard · br 87 · A Form of Incomprehension: Edwin Williamson BORGES: A LIFE (Viking, 2004) · Guy Davenport · br 91 · Anywhere Out of This World: Why All Writing Is Travel Writing · Nicholas Delbanco · br __ · Pico Iyer SUN AFTER DARK (Knopf, 2004) · Nicholas Delbanco · br __ · John Julius Norwich A TASTE FOR TRAVEL: AN ANTHOLOGY (Knopf, 1987) · Nicholas Delbanco · br

Harper’s Magazine [v309, #1853, October 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 104pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 24 · Where the Liberal Things Are · Katherine DeBrecht · ex (r); from Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! A Small Lesson in Conservatism (Xulon Press 2004). 29 · The Reefs of Love · Robert Desnos; translated by Luc Sante · ms Conjunctions Spr 2004; film treatment (LA REVUE DU CINEMA, 1930. 71 · The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe · John Updike · ss; (illus. with “Bedtime View, Castellini in Chianti, Italy” by Robert Vizzini) 91 · New Books · John Leonard · br 91 · Seth Koven SLUMMING: SEXUAL AND SOCIAL POLITICS IN VICTORIAN LONDON (Princeton, 2004) · John Leonard · br 92 · Willis Goth Regier BOOK OF THE SPHINX (U Nebraska 2004) · John Leonard · br 92 · Camilla Townsend POCAHONTAS AND THE POWHATAN DILEMMA (Hill and Wang 2004) · John Leonard · br 93 · La Vie Treshorrificque · William H. Gass · br; essay on Andrew Brown’s translations of Rabelais’ GARGANTUA and PANTAGRUEL, in two volumes from Hesperus Press, 2004.

Harper’s Magazine [v309, #1854, November 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 24 · Lima, Peru, July 28, 1979 · Daniel Alarcón · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum 2004 70 · Permission · Kevin McIlvoy · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v309, #1855, December 2004] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 30 · A New World · V. S. Pritchett · ss Granta Spr 1989 73 · Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn · Jonathan Lethem · ar 80 · Introduction to Speech · Ron Carlson · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v310, #1856, January 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 21 · Deep Wells, USA · Chris Bachelder · ss McSweeney’s #14 2004 31 · Consuming the View · Luigi Malerba; translated by Lesley Riva · vi 83 · Assassin · Naguib Mahfouz; translated by Raymond Stock · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v310, #1857, February 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 25 · Children, Cover Your Eyes · Ben Marcus · ss Conjunctions #43 2004 29 · Down in Front · Colson Whitehead · ss Granta Sum 2004 79 · Beavers · Arthur Miller · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v310, #1858, March 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham (Harper’s Magazine Foundation, 104pp+, slick) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 4 · In Memoriam [Guy Davenport] · Anon. · ob 29 · Three Novels · Giorgio Manganelli · vi; from (CENTURIA: ONE HUNDRED OUROBORIC NOVELS, translated from the Italian by Henry Martin; McPherson & Co. 2005) 80 · Brad Carrigan, American · George Saunders · nv; illustrated by Lou Beach

Harper’s Magazine [v310, #1859, April 2005] (100pp+) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 20 · Home Care · David Mason · pm The Times Literary Supplement Oct 29 2004 24 · Notes on Propaganda · Rudyard Kipling · ms (r) 25 · The Corrections · Andrei Platonov, Leonid Leonov, Pyotr Pavlenko, Kornely Zelinsky; translated by Joanne Turnbull · iv (r); (a transcript of a session of the All-Russian Union of Soviet Writers, 1 February 1932) (GLAS, Winter 2004-2005) 27 · The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth · Charles Portis · ss Oxford American Win 2004 33 · [sculpture made from battered books, largely knifed and folded paperback cover]-images · Thomas Allen · pi 77 · A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth · Daniel Mason · ss; illustrated by Steven Dana

Harper’s Magazine [v310, #1860, May 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 27 · The Municipal Abattoir · Tennessee Williams · pl Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays, New Directions 2005 81 · In Reference to Your Recent Communications · Tessa Brown · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v310, #1861, June 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 21 · Boys, Interrupted · Anon. · ex; from The Writer’s Guide to Hardy Boys Rack Books, distributed to writers of the series. 25 · The Pain Scale · Eula Biss · ss Seneca Review Spr 2005

Harper’s Magazine [v311, #1862, July 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 25 · Young H Saved from Fantasy · Carole Maso · ss Conjunctions #44 2005 78 · Chance Traveler · Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v311, #1863, August 2005] (98pp) Details supplied by Todd Mason. 75 · The Disturbing Occurrences · Naguib Mahfouz; translated by Raymond Stock · ss; originally published in Arabic in 1979 as “al-Hawadith al-muthira”; forthcoming in collection The Seventh Heaven: Supernatural Stories.; illustrated by Danjiel Zezelj

Harper’s Magazine [v311, #1864, September 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 27 · AAA Plus · Brian Doyle · ss 72 · Trample the Dead, Hurdle the Weak · Jim Shepard · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v311, #1865, October 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 27 · The Death of a Chair · Doris Lessing · ss Granta Sum 2005 39 · Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life As We Know It: A Correction · Ben Marcus · ar [Jonathan Franzen] 78 · Chicken Little Goes Too Far · Margaret Atwood · ss 80 · The Tent · Margaret Atwood · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v311, #1866, November 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 81 · In Persuasion Nation · George Saunders · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v311, #1867, December 2005] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 28 · The Gold Lunch · Ron Carlson · pl Ploughshares 2004 76 · Lost in Uttar Pradesh · Evan S. Connell · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v312, #1868, January 2006] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 27 · The Package Tour [from The Journals: Volume Two] · John Fowles · ex Jonathan Cape 2006 74 · Fourteen Feet of Water in My House · Allan Gurganus · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v312, #1869, February 2006] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 77 · Borscht · Lara Vapnyar · ss

Harper’s Magazine [v312, #1870, March 2006] ed. Lewis H. Lapham Details supplied by Martin Wooster. 22 · All That Glass · Kate Hendry · ss New Writing Scotland 23: Queen of the Sheep, ed. Valerie Thornton, Hamish Whyte & Maoilios M. Caimbeul, Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2005 68 · Question 62 · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss