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    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.


    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 [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, #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 [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 [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, #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 [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


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