= Subscribers only. Sign in here. Subscribe here.

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

2004 / June | View All Issues |

June 2004

Photography

Front cover PDF

Untitled·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.


Letters

6-9, 102 PDF

Letters·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Notebook

11-13 PDF

That’s why the lady is a champ·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Harper’s Index

15 PDF

Harper’s index·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Readings

17-34 PDF

[Article]

Planet of slums·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Photography]

Nightrise·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Mallarme’s cat·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

The home front·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[illustration]

Narcissus·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Have gun will travel·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Semper sensitive·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Each to his own·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Hello, dolly!·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Out for blood·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Fiction]

Delta interval·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[illustration]

Fox hunt I·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[Article]

Fruits of the sea·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

[illustration]

Blue cheer·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Article

Front cover, 37-48 PDF

Beyond Fallujah·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

A year with the Iraqi resistance

Article

49-51, 54-63 PDF

The turn·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Inside the secret dervish orders of Istanbul

Article

72-73 PDF

A wicked cheat·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

ATMs and the neo-feudal economy

Fiction

81-84 PDF

Officers weep·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

New books

85-86 PDF

New books·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Reviews

87-93 PDF

A generous mind·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The realism of Natalia Ginzburg

Reviews

93-100 PDF

Invitation to a crucifixion·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Fundamentalism goes to Hollywood

Puzzle

103 PDF

Sixes and sevens·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Findings

104 PDF

Findings·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

Get access to 164 years of
Harper’s for only $39.99

United States Canada

THE CURRENT ISSUE

October 2014

Cassandra Among the
Creeps

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

PBS Self-Destructs

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

The Monkey Did It

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

view Table Content

FEATURED ON HARPERS.ORG

Post
"In mid-August, hundreds of displaced Christians who had fled to Erbil were moved by Kurdish authorities into the concrete shell of a half-built mall. "
Photograph by Sebastian Meyer
Article
“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

“Iraq has every disease there is; its mind is deranged with too many voices, its organs corrupted, its limbs only long enough to tear at its own body.”
Photograph by Benjamin Busch
Post
Flying Blind·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

“President Obama’s war against the Islamic State will represent, by a rough count, the eighth time the U.S. air-power lobby has promised to crush a foe without setting boot or foot on the ground.”
Article
The Monkey Did It·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

“In Murakami’s fiction, what presents itself as a key reveals itself simultaneously to be a keyhole.”
Illustration by Steven Dana
Article
PBS Self-Destructs·

= Subscribers only.
Sign in here.
Subscribe here.

“The present state of PBS, the result of built-in deficiencies and ideological conflicts, was almost an inevitability.”
Illustration by Thomas Allen

Estimated percentage of U.S. gasoline consumption that occurs during traffic jams:

4

In India, 1.8 million female children were estimated to have died between 1985 and 2005 as an indirect result of domestic violence against their mothers; the boys of abused mothers were not at increased risk of death.

Vanilla latte and lemon pound cake continued to be the best-selling items at the Starbucks at CIA headquarters, where baristas do not write customers’ names on their cups.

Subscribe to the Weekly Review newsletter. Don’t worry, we won’t sell your email address!

HARPER’S FINEST

In Praise of Idleness

By

I hope that after reading the following pages the leaders of the Y. M. C. A. will start a campaign to induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain.

Subscribe Today
http://harpers.org/archive/2004/06/
harpers.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-41
144685
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:XTK7RQJOYK5GZDZHMDY4QR7SNUWPWIWP
<urn:uuid:352b487a-7506-435a-adf0-5f7b8d7d9e87>
2014-09-30T21:24:50Z
54.243.234.21
sha1:3JO727ZDXW4DS7AX3LRUQKATT77JTKYV
<urn:uuid:c11a4e0f-93e4-4944-8810-65dfb3089864>
http://harpers.org/archive/2004/06/
response
<urn:uuid:24c7d7a1-e2ac-4ece-963e-3b37127285ac>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-41
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for September 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf