^#smrgDERGİ Harper's Magazine - November 2007, Issue: 1890, Vol: 315

Letters 4 And a Log to Sit On Toby Grace, Tom Papell Notebook 7 Blowing Bubbles Lewis H. Lapham Harper's Index 13 Readings 15 The Kindness of Strangers Robin Fox lithe Dead Came Back Robert Pinsky Restrictions Should Apply the sweepstakes theory of American politics Self-Portrait at Twenty Years Roberto Bolan° All That Ugly Stuff Hunter S. Thompson The Conversation unknown knowns of warrantless wiretapping Pandemonium Donald Barthelme And ... Lisa Sanditz, On Gersht, Justin Francavilla, and mourning the gentrification of Antarctica Report 33 MAKING MITT ROMNEY Ken Silverstein How to fabricate a conservative Letter from Orissa 41 WOMAN MARRIES SNAKE Mischa Berlinski A peculiar Indian love story Essay 53 A LIE THAT TELLS THE TRUTH Joel Agee Memoir and the art of memory Photo Essay 60 WELCOME TO THE WORLD Jason Fulford Photographs from Dubai Criticism 68 HABITS OF SEEING Jennifer Szalai The unsettling films of Michael Haneke Story 76 A REPORT ON OUR RECENT TROUBLES Steven Millhauser Reviews 81 NEW BOOKS John Leonard MODERNISM A LA MODE Mark Kingwell How architecture went from radical to chic BURIED IN THE LIFE Terry Eagleton Thomas Hardy and the limits of biographies Puzzle 95 Richard E. Maltby Jr.