Letters | 4 | |
Mismanaged Care | Lily Huang, M.D., Wil S. Hylton | |
Notebook | 9 | |
Reading the Mail | Lewis H. Lapham | |
Harper's Index | 13 | |
Readings | 15 | |
Conditional State | an interview with Amos Oz and David Grossman | |
I Feel the Need | prospective slogans for the Air Force Academy | |
Stayin' Alive | the hazards of spiritual assistance | |
Frontiers of Science | What is the purpose of lips? | |
Riding Shotgun | Joseph Miedzianowski and William Jarding | |
Bighousekeeping | how to make a toilet-paper bomb | |
Amor Perdida | Tennessee Williams | |
And . . . | Alex Kanevsky, Michael Kenna, Jon Rubin, and activities of a feudalistic and suspicious nature are prohibited | |
Essay | 35 | |
JUNK POLITICS | Benjamin DeMott | |
A voter's guide to the post-literate election | ||
Proposal | 44 | |
TURN ON, TUNE IN | Thomas de Zengotita | |
Toward a progressive talk show | ||
Report | 53 | |
THE WAR BUSINESS | Chalmers Johnson | |
Squeezing a profit from the wreckage in Iraq | ||
Story | 61 | |
THE TWO OF THEM | Annie Dillard | |
Letter from Alaska | 67 | |
A NORTHERN FRONT | John Hildebrand | |
Seeking refuge in oil and in wilderness | ||
Reviews | 77 | |
NEW BOOKS | John Leonard | |
SONS AND MONSTERS | Jonathan Dee | |
John O'Hara gains a defender | ||
REVISITING THE ICONS | Francine Prose | |
The intimate photography of Diane Arbus | ||
Puzzle | 91 Richard E. Maltby Jr. | |
Quiz | 92 | |
RUNNING WILD |