Issue of 2004-03-01
Posted 2004-02-23
The Talk of TheTown
COMMENT/ TEN YEARS AFTER/ George Packer on fostering democracy in Haiti.
ON DECK/ NOTHING BUT THE BEST/ Ben McGrath considers A-Rodís welcome to the Yankees.
JUST LOOKING/ A NEW MALL/ Adam Gopnik browses in the new Time Warner Center.
OLD FLAMES/ THE GUARD YEARS/ Jane Mayer talks to an ex-girlfriend of George Bushís from the Vietnam era.
VERSE/ DUET ON MARS/ A poem by John Updike.
CAMPAIGN JOURNAL/ LABOR PAINS/ Philip Gourevitch on what Kerry and Edwards offer the working class.
AROUND CITY HALL/ Elizabeth Kolbert/ The Un-Communicator/ How does a good mayor get a bad image?
SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Andrew Barlow/ Something for Everyone
FICTION/ T. Coraghessan Boyle/ "Chicxulub"
THE CRITICS
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ David Denby/ Suffering/ Mel Gibsonís "The Passion of the Christ."
BOOKS/ Louis Menand/ Game Theory/ Spassky vs. Fischer revisited.
BOOKS/ Christopher Caldwell/ Select All/ Can you have too many choices?
THE ART WORLD/ Peter Schjeldahl/ England Swings/ Tate Modern, the Saatchi Gallery, and competing views of the contemporary.
THE THEATRE/ John Lahr/ Swan Songs/ A death-wish trifecta.
MUSICAL EVENTS/ Alex Ross/ Rich and Strange/ A "Tempest" opera by Thomas Ades.
FROM THE ARCHIVE/ AROUND CITY HALL/ Elizabeth Kolbert/ Lighten Up/ 1999 report on Rudy Giuliani's tenure as mayor.
