April 08, 2006
If the order were to be given for an attack, the American combat troops now operating in Iran would be in position to mark the critical targets with laser beams, to insure bombing accuracy and to minimize civilian casualties. As of early winter, I was told by the government consultant with close ties to civilians in the Pentagon, the units were also working with minority groups in Iran, including the Azeris, in the north, the Baluchis, in the southeast, and...
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November 28, 2005
Issue of 2005-12-05 Posted 2005-11-28 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ FLOOR WAR/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the war over the war in Congress. BEIJING POSTCARD/ POPPY, SHOPPING/ Peter Hessler traces the steps of Old Bush. VISITING DIGNITARIES/ GIBBONS/ Nick Paumgarten meets the lead guitarist of ZZ Top. TEXTURE DEPT./ WALING/ Ben McGrath attends a meeting of the Corduroy Appreciation Club. MOONLIGHTING DEPT./ MOB APPEAL/ Lauren Collins on a best-selling prosecutor. POSTSCRIPT/ CECILLE SHAWN/ Remembering the wife of the late New...
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10:34 PM
October 17, 2005
Issue of 2005-10-24 Posted 2005-10-17 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ GAME PLAN/ George Packer on what the Republicans' troubles mean for the opposition. NOSEBLEED DEPT./ RARE AIR/ Nick Paumgarten visits an office with altitude. WHO R U?/ HARRIET 4 JUSTICE/ Mark Singer trades thoughts with Harriet Miers's alter ego. GOOD WORKS/ BED BATH & BOWERY/ Lauren Collins on the best-friend benefactors of the New Museum. EVERYBODY'S AN EXPERT/ DRAWING PITCHERS/ Michael Rosenwald on an illustrator with a secret....
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September 16, 2005
I shouldn't be surprised that I'm getting this question a lot these days. Here's what Ang Lee told the NYT's Karen Durbin:"When I first read the story, it gripped me. It's a great American love story, told in a way that felt as if it had never been done before. I had tears in my eyes at the end. You remember? You see the shirts put away in the closet side by side." Who could forget? When Annie Proulx's short...
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07:34 AM
September 03, 2005
Google News started indexing The New Yorker, and using this link, you can see the links of up to 100 articles from the magazine. Right now, that covers stuff back to July 31. +the source:new_yorker, also available via rss and atom [Google News, via robotwisdom]...
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05:37 PM
August 29, 2005
Issue of 2005-09-05 Posted 2005-08-29 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN MOVIES, THE THEATRE, NIGHT LIFE, CLASSICAL MUSIC, ART [that's all I could dig up.] THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ WAR AND ANTIWAR/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the President’s opposition—at home and in Iraq. TSK-TSK DEPT./ NOR’EASTER/ Ben McGrath on a stickler for storm names. PUBLIC SAFETY/ CAR SEAT LADY/ Michael Agger on a woman who's made child safety her business. THE BOARDS/ ALDA ONSTAGE/ Lillian Ross visits with Alan Alda...
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August 22, 2005
Issue of 2005-08-29 Posted 2005-08-22 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ SACRED AND PROFANE/ David Remnick on the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH/ SHAKEDOWN STREET/ Ben McGrath on how a block is making the “Sex and the City” tour pay. TROUBADOURS/ PICK SIX/ Nick Paumgarten shops for CDs with Richard Thompson. INK/ NOT A WORD/ Henry Alford hunts down a phony dictionary entry. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ MICHAEL KUBIN AND DAVID MOORE/ THE NUCLEAR CLUB/ Application for membership. DEPT....
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August 15, 2005
Issue of 2005-08-22 Posted 2005-08-15 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ Mired/ Hendrik Hertzberg on President Bush’s science of evolution. GONE FISHING/ Snakehead, the Sequel/ Nick Paumgarten goes hunting for a killer fish. CLOSE READING DEPT./ O.B.L./ Lauren Collins talks with Osama bin Laden’s editor. FIELD TRIP/ The Pre-Season Kid/ Ben McGrath on a prolific teen-age football writer. THE WORLD WIDE WEB/ Hello, Loneliness/ Evan Ratliff on an unlikely place to make friends. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Joel Stein/ THE...
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July 25, 2005
Issue of 2005-08-01 Posted 2005-07-25 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ ROE V. ROVE/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts. THEME AND VARIATIONS/ BAG CHECK/ Nick Paumgarten observes new subway security measures. WIND ON CAPITOL HILL/ THE BRITNEY OPTION/ Adam Green on a pop-culture gimmick gone political. DEPT. OF MULTITASKING/ ONE-MAN SHOW/ Lauren Collins on the actor who is many Oompa Loompas. DEPT. OF EDUCATION/ THE GOOD NEWS/ Nick Paumgarten visits the city’s only evangelical...
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10:32 PM
July 18, 2005
Issue of 2005-07-25 Posted 2005-07-18 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ NOT SCARED/ Adam Gopnik on the mood in London on the day of the bombings. MIRROR, MIRROR/ FACE-OFF/ Ben McGrath on what we might see in a candidate's countenance. DEPT. OF TRYOUTS/ LOW NOTES/ Ryan D'Agostino on the search for a new bass player at the Met. SPINOFF DEPT./ REPORTER GUY/ David Remnick on Stephen Colbert's new fake-news show. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ A FAREWELL TO ALMS?/ James Surowiecki...
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06:51 PM
July 17, 2005
Issue of 2005-07-11 & 18 Posted 2005-07-04 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ DECISIONS, DECISIONS/ Louis Menand on Sandra Day O'Connor. SPORTS DEPT./ TEAM FOR SALE/ Hendrik Hertzberg on George Soros's bid for the Washington Nationals baseball team. AROUND CITY HALL/ THE PUBLIC WHAT?/ Ben McGrath on the race for the city's second-ranking post. FIGHTING WORDS/ WHATEVER/ Nick Paumgarten on why Russell Crowe got angry. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ ALL THE OIL IN CHINA?/ James Surowiecki on the Chinese government's...
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11:10 PM
July 04, 2005
Issue of 2005-07-11 & 18 Posted 2005-07-04 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ DECISIONS, DECISIONS/ Louis Menand on Sandra Day O'Connor. SPORTS DEPT./ TEAM FOR SALE/ Hendrik Hertzberg on George Soros's bid for the Washington Nationals baseball team. AROUND CITY HALL/ THE PUBLIC WHAT?/ Ben McGrath on the race for the city's second-ranking post. FIGHTING WORDS/ WHATEVER/ Nick Paumgarten on why Russell Crowe got angry. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ ALL THE OIL IN CHINA?/ James Surowiecki on the Chinese government's...
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June 27, 2005
Issue of 2005-07-04 Posted 2005-06-27 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ POLITICAL PORN/ David Remnick considers the latest literature on Hillary Clinton. SUMMER JOBS/ THE ENRON EXAMPLE/ Alec Wilkinson attends a lesson on legal ethics. DEPT. OF EDUCATION/ DON’T LAUGH/ Lauren Collins on Peter Yarrow’s anti-bullying program. THE NIGHT LIFE/ OFF DUTY/ Ben McGrath at a taxi driver’s book party. ROME POSTCARD/ DOWN BY THE RIVER/ John Seabrook on the state of the Tiber river. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON/ Jeffrey...
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June 20, 2005
Issue of 2005-06-27 Posted 2005-06-20 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ WATCHED POT/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the Supreme Court and medical marijuana. D.C. POSTCARD/ TYSON'S CORNER/ David Remnick on Mike Tyson's last round. DEPT. OF SECOND ACTS/ TO BOLDLY GO/ Rebecca Mead on Leonard Nimoy, photographer. DEPT. OF URBAN RENEWAL/ STADIA MANIA/ Nick Paumgarten on Ry Cooder's latest album, and urban stadiums. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ COPS AND ROBBERS/ James Surowiecki on tracking down fraud. ANNALS OF EDUCATION/ Hanna Rosin/...
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10:42 PM
June 02, 2005
Wow. The New Yorker will publish its entire archive, indexed and searchable, on DVD this fall for $100 MSRP. [NYT, via kottke] Amazon's already taking pre-orders for $63....
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May 30, 2005
Issue of 2005-06-06 Posted 2005-05-30 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ LADIES FIRST/ Rebecca Mead on the new Laura Bush. THE CLOTH/ INTERFAITH AT WORK/ Ben McGrath at a gathering of clergy and judges in Brooklyn. ODD JOBS DEPT./ COOKIE MASTER/ Jeremy Olshan meets a fortune writer. ROAD TEST/ STINKY TOWN/ Field Maloney on the smells of summer. THE HOME TEAM/ THE PITCHER'S WIFE/ Lillian Ross goes to Shea stadium with Anna Benson. ANNALS OF EDUCATION/ Margaret Talbot/ Best...
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May 23, 2005
Issue of 2005-05-30 Posted 2005-05-23 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ BIG NEWS WEEK/ Hendrik Hertzberg on Newsweek, the White House, and the fallout from the Guantánamo allegations. THE BENCH/ GIRLS BEHAVING BADLY/ Jeffrey Toobin on a legal battle raging within a feminist art organization. ENDANGERED SPECIES DEPT./ THE VILLAGE HILLS/ Rebecca Mead on trying to save the mounds in Washington Square Park. DYNASTIES/ MODERN AT NINETY/ Calvin Tomkins on celebrating David Rockefeller's birthday. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ LOCAL KNOWLEDGE/...
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May 16, 2005
Issue of 2005-05-23 Posted 2005-05-16 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ BLAIR'S BUSHY TAIL/ Hendrik Hertzberg on Tony Blair's shrinking majority. DEPT. OF YESTERYEAR/ U.N. ON ICE/ Nick Paumgarten on the U.N.'s potential move to the outer boroughs. STREET LIFE/ TREE COUNT/ Andy Young on cataloguing Manhattan's flora. ICONS/ MR. G./ Adam Green on Robert Goulet, at seventy-one. DEPT. OF INSPIRATION/ WRITERS AT WORK/ Ben McGrath on special work spaces for writers, in Queens. A REPORTER AT LARGE/ Michael...
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May 02, 2005
Posted 2005-05-02 Issue of 2005-05-09 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ THE MATT AND JUDY SHOW/ Hendrik Hertzberg on Judith Miller, Matthew Cooper, and the freedom of the press. DEPT. OF PALEONTOLOGY/ DINOMITE/ Adam Gopnik on new dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History. THE PICTURES/ TWO DAMES/ Lillian Ross on Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. ON PROBATION/ SURE BEATS WORK/ Jeffrey Toobin on Martha Stewart's probation. DANCE DEPARTMENT/ LEAVING AILEY/ Joan Acocella on a sixty-something dancer. LETTER...
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April 18, 2005
Posted 2005-04-18 Issue of 2005-04-25 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ WITHOUT DELAY/ Hendrik Hertzberg on Tom DeLay's ethical and moral troubles. HOUSEKEEPING/ ELLEN BARKIN AT HOME/ Lillian Ross visits the actress and society wife at her East Side town house. THE CUTTING ROOM/ IN THE GARDEN/ David Blum on the controversy over a new documentary about Madison Square Garden. THE PICTURES/ A KIM JONG IL PRODUCTION/ Michael Shapiro on a Korean monster movie. NEW YORK JOURNAL/ Rebecca Mead/...
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April 11, 2005
Posted 2005-04-11 Issue of 2005-04-18 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ WASTED ENERGY/ Elizabeth Kolbert on the fight over drilling in Alaska. DEPT. OF MERGERS/ WINNERS/ Rebecca Mead reports from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Welch's book party, at the Four Seasons. DEPT. OF NOISEMAKING/ THE ANGRY INVESTOR/ Ben McGrath on Daniel Loeb and what complaint letters will get you. LEGACIES/ THE NUT LADY RETURNS/ Tad Friend on a showdown in the Nutmeg State. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ IN YUAN WE...
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April 06, 2005
While I'm lackadaisically culling archival links from the New Yorker's website (to make up for the fact that they have no search or archive function), the New York Observer has emptied the scribbled-on scraps of paper and cocktail napkins from their pockets to piece together a nearly complete masthead for the magazine (to make up for the fact that they have none). 1) Is there anything else you need done, New Yorker? Can we pick up your cleaning, water your...
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April 04, 2005
Issue of 2005-04-11 Posted 2005-04-04 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ JOHN PAUL II/ David Remnick on the life of Karol Wojtyla. INK / BATTLE OF THE TABS/Ben McGrath on the recent flare up between the Post and the Daily News LOST TREASURES/ DEEP/ Adam Green finds an early diving chamber in storage at Coney Island. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ ALL TOGETHER NOW/ James Surowiecki on Sony and the dangers of going it alone. ART AND SCIENCE/ Richard Preston/ Capturing...
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March 28, 2005
Issue of 2005-04-04 Posted 2005-03-28 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ MATTERS OF LIFE/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the Terri Schiavo dilemma. DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION/ THE JOY OF TRAFFIC/ Nick Paumgarten joins a bumper-to-bumper race into town. DEPT. OF ENTOMOLOGY/ NIGHT VISITORS/Mark Singer on an outbreak of bedbugs. MOSCOW POSTCARD/ A NIGHT AT THE OPERA/ Masha Lipman on the latest from the notorious librettist Vladimir Sorokin. MEDICAL DISPATCH/ Atul Gawande/ Piecework/ How doctors make their money. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Henry...
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March 21, 2005
Issue of 2005-03-28 Posted 2005-03-21 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ UNTRUSTWORTHY/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the what the Social Security fund means. WIND ON CAPITOL HILL/ SOFTBALL/ Ben McGrath attends the congressional hearings on steroids in baseball. THE BOARDS/ STREETCAR UPDATE/ Lillian Ross on a Tennessee Williams revival. IN YOUR FUTURE/ POPSTROLOGICALLY SPEAKING/ Nick Paumgarten tries out the newest personality indicators. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ LOCAL ZEROES/ James Surowiecki on the rash of home-town boys gone bad. SHOUTS & MURMURS/...
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March 14, 2005
Issue of 2005-03-21 Posted 2004-03-14 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ BOLTONISM/ Samantha Power on President Bush’s next Ambassador to the United Nations. STATES' RITES/ YOU SAY TOMATO/ Ben McGrath on pride and produce in the Garden State. HERE TO THERE DEPT./ STITCHES/ Lauren Collins takes a ride on the Yarn Bus. DECISIONS DEPT./ CHECK, PLEASE!/ Rebecca Mead on naming your price at Babu, in the Village. U.K. POSTCARD/ WINDSORS IN TIGHTS/ Anthony Lane on a ballet about the...
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March 07, 2005
Issue of 2005-03-14 Posted 2004-03-07 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ NUKE ’EM/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the sharp double edge of the Senate filibuster. DEPT. OF CALCULATION/ CRED/ Ben McGrath on a group of undercover homeless decoys. DEPT. OF AMPLIFICATION/ REPRIEVE/ Jeffrey Toobin follows up with a death-row inmate. TAXONOMY/ MONKEY BIDNESS/ Mark Singer on the naming of a new primate species. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ NET WORTH/ James Surowiecki on the struggle between management and talent. FICTION/ Anne Enright/...
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February 28, 2005
Issue of 2005-03-07 Posted 2004-02-28 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ BELIEVER/ Louis Menand on the life and death of Hunter S. Thompson. ON TOUR/ DR. JUICE/ Ben McGrath attends a Jose Canseco book signing. AWARDS SEASON/ THE POLLIES/ Adam Green on a proud night for political consultants. GIZMOS/ TWO PENS/ Tad Friend on recent advances in ink dispensation. SUMATRA POSTCARD/ OUR MAN IN MEDAN/ Dan Baum meets an American diplomat in post-tsunami Sumatra. THE POLITICAL SCENE/ Jeffrey Toobin/...
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February 21, 2005
Issue of 2005-02-28 Posted 2004-02-21 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ NEWSHOUNDS/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the White House press-corps pets. HERE TODAY DEPT/ GATED/ Peter Schjeldahl on what Christo and Jeanne-Claude did to Central Park. THE PICTURES/ ONE BILLION/ Daniel Radosh wonders how many people watch the Oscars. STRIPES DEPT./ NIGHT AT THE OPERA/ Rebecca Mead at the Met with West Point cadets. POSTSCRIPT/ MISS GOULD/ David Remnick remembers the New Yorker grammarian. LETTER FROM BASRA/ George Packer/ Testing...
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February 07, 2005
Issue of 2005-02-14 Posted 2004-02-07 TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ LANDMARKS/ Hendrik Hertzberg on what successful Iraqi elections mean. STREET LIFE/ TOO MUCH INFORMATION/ Adam Gopnik on the new rash of signage in the city. OFF THE RUNWAY/ LET THEM EAT CAKES/ Rebecca Mead attends a Fashion Week party at the Carlyle Hotel. E.U. POSTCARD/ PIGS MUST PLAY/ Anthony Lane on the odd boundaries of Europe. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ THE CUSTOMER IS KING/ James Surowiecki on the power brokers...
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February 06, 2005
Issue of 2005-02-07 Posted 2004-01-31 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ HOMELAND INSECURITY/ William Finnegan on what’s missing at the mammoth government agency. DEPT. OF PREDICTION/ THREE TO FIVE/ Ben McGrath on how long it takes to fix a subway line. HAPPY RETURNS/ KOONS AT FIFTY/ Calvin Tomkins at a birthday party for the boy king of the art world. HOMECOMING DEPT./ FOLLOW THAT CAB/ John Lahr on why “Taxicab Confessions” came back to New York. POSTSCRIPT/ JOHNNY CARSON/...
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February 03, 2005
After all, Eric Steel didn't say he wasn't going to film the jumpers off the Golden Gate Bridge when he applied for a permit to shoot the bridge all day, every day, for a year. According to the federal officials who issued him the permit, he described his project as, variously, "a day in the life" of the bridge or "a powerful and spectacular interaction between the monument and nature." Steel captured 19 jumpers on film, plus "hundreds" of unsuccessful...
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Issue of 2005-02-07 Posted 2004-01-31 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ HOMELAND INSECURITY/ William Finnegan on what’s missing at the mammoth government agency. DEPT. OF PREDICTION/ THREE TO FIVE/ Ben McGrath on how long it takes to fix a subway line. HAPPY RETURNS/ KOONS AT FIFTY/ Calvin Tomkins at a birthday party for the boy king of the art world. HOMECOMING DEPT./ FOLLOW THAT CAB/ John Lahr on why “Taxicab Confessions” came back to New York. POSTSCRIPT/ JOHNNY CARSON/...
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January 25, 2005
"There's a certain enjoyment in facing death, periodically." - actor Robert Blake discussing--no, but good guess--discussing his appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as quoted in a 1978 New Yorker profile by Kenneth Turan. [Day-um. Turan kept a Carson Watching Journal in 1976 that uses words--in his JOURNAL--like 'exordium'? It's like College Bowl meets Television Without Pity.] Bonus celebrity murderer mention: O.J. Simpson...
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January 23, 2005
Quotes from two consecutive paragraphs of Peter Schjeldahl's review of "East Village U.S.A." in The New Yorker:There was something toxically facetious about the East Village versions of avant-gardism and la vie bohème... ...A suggested title for a musical version that would be truer than the formulaic "Rent": "What I Undid for Love."Yeah, and now that you mention it, where'd they get the formulaic "story" for West Side Story?...
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January 17, 2005
Issue of 2005-01-24 Posted 2005-01-17 NOTE: This week the Magazine published all its major pieces online for, I believe, the first time. THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ UNSOCIAL INSECURITY/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the Bush Administration's plans for retirement. IN THE AIR/ DO-GOODER/ Dan Baum meets a Red Cross volunteer with a bag full of cash. DEPT. OF EDUCATION/ SAFE JOURNEY/ Ben McGrath on sending a school hall monitor off to war. POSTCARD FROM THAILAND/ SEA GYPSIES/ Eliza Griswold...
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January 12, 2005
Issue of 2005-01-17 Posted 2004-01-10 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ FLOOD TIDE/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the response to the tsunami. COLD CASE DEPT./ VISITING PREACHER KILLEN/ Jeffrey Goldberg remembers a trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi. AFTER THE FLOOD/ THE THIRD "R"/ Akash Kapur on what follows rescue and relief. WRONG NUMBER DEPT./ NOT DIRTY/ Michael Agger meets a man stuck with a rapper's real name. DEPT. OF INQUIRY/ STUMPED NEW YORK/ Rebecca Mead on the librarians at the New-York...
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January 03, 2005
Issue of 2005-01-10 Posted 2005-01-03 THE TALK OF THE TOWN LETTER FROM KALAPET/ TSUNAMI/ Akash Kapur reports from the coast of South India. DEPT. OF MELTDOWNS/ BUSTED/ Rebecca Mead on Bernard B. Kerik’s place in the city’s history of scandals. POSTSCRIPT/ SUSAN SONTAG/ Joan Acocella remembers the writer, who died last week, at the age of seventy-one. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ THE CATASTROPHE PROBLEM/ James Surowiecki on insuring against disasters. ANNALS OF MEDICINE/ THE PEDIATRIC GAP/ JEROME GROOPMAN/ Why have...
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December 27, 2004
Issue of 2005-01-03 Posted 2004-12-27 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ GETTING WARMER/ Elizabeth Kolbert on the facts of Michael Crichton’s fiction. DEPT. OF SHOE LEATHER/ WALK ON/ Ben McGrath steps out with a remarkably thorough pedestrian. BAH HUMBUG DEPT./ PLUCK YOU/ Nick Paumgarten talks hawk with the pornographer Al Goldstein. SMALL WORLD DEPT./ CHEERS/ Ann Hodgman on a gathering of miniature-drink makers. DEPT. OF WARMTH/ VESTIBULE/ Ian Parker meets a reluctant door dresser. LETTER FROM AMSTERDAM/ Ian Buruma/...
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December 13, 2004
Issue of 2004-12-20 and 27 Posted 2004-12-13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ INVASION VS. PERSUASION/ George Packer on the making of democracy in Iraq and Ukraine. THE DIPLOMATS/ JUST WHISTLE/ Ben McGrath on a scandalous peacekeeping memoir. LAB NOTEBOOK/ MEET THE BEATLES, AGAIN/ Nancy Franklin tests the physiological effects of acute Beatlemania. THE BENCH/ HIGH TEA/ Jeffrey Toobin on the legal plight of a religious beverage. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ PUSH AND PULL/ James Surowiecki on how the market...
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December 06, 2004
Issue of 2004-12-13 Posted 2004-12-06 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ POWER PLAYS/ Philip Gourevitch on what’s wrong at the United Nations. LOAVES AND FISHES/ BIG WINNER/ Ben McGrath weighs the holiday sights. OUGHTA BE A LAW DEPT./ GOOD FOR THE GOOSE/ Dana Goodyear on the criminalization of foie gras. DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION/ MEXICO/ Nick Paumgarten takes in the truck-bed-beach scene. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ IT PAYS TO STAY/ James Surowiecki on local corporate incentives. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Woody Allen/...
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November 29, 2004
Issue of 2004-12-06 Posted 2004-11-29 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ GOING DOWN/ John Cassidy on the declining dollar. THE CULTURE WARS/ WHY KNOW?/ Daniel Radosh on a group of Kinsey debunkers. DEPT. OF DETERRENCE/ FOR THE BIRDS/ Ben McGrath on the latest anti-pigeon efforts uptown. CLOSET-SPACE DEPT./ HOME ALONE/ Rebecca Mead on empty nesters. TOP THIS DEPT./ WHO’S COUNTING?/ Lauren Collins attends a Guinness Book of Records get-together. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ George Saunders/ Flooding the Zone ANNALS OF...
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November 22, 2004
Issue of 2004-11-29 Posted 2004-11-22 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ MORE WAR/ Philip Gourevitch on seeking true victory in Falluja. DEPT. OF SCHOOL SPIRIT/ FARM TEAM/ Ben McGrath on the eager Democrats of the New York City Council. EXCAVATION DEPT./ FOUND/ Peter Hessler traces rare bronze artifacts back to China. CONTRABAND/ PSST! GOT MILK?/ Frederick Kaufman meets a coven of black-market dairy consumers. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ WHY GOLD?/ James Surowiecki on the shared fantasy of a precious metal....
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November 15, 2004
Issue of 2004-11-22 Posted 2004-11-15 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ THE OLD MAN/ David Remnick on Yasir Arafat's legacy. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY DEPT./ ACT NOW/ Michael Specter on the activist Larry Kramer's latest speech. REVIVALS/ CINDERELLA STORY/ Nancy Franklin on "Cinderella" at City Opera. AT THE GALLERIES/ UNZIPPED/ Calvin Tomkins attends the opening of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's porn-star portrait show. THE BOARDS/ RESONATING/ Lillian Ross visits Randy Quaid on the set of Sam Shepard's new play. ANNALS OF CULTURE/ Something...
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November 08, 2004
Issue of 2004-11-15 Posted 2004-11-08 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ WOE IS WE/ Hendrik Hertzberg on four more years. THE PARTY/ DEBOUCHING/ Ben McGrath visits William F. Buckley. WORLD OF TOMORROW/ WHAT IF?/ Dana Goodyear on an N.Y.U. class's reaction to the election. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ THE RISK SOCIETY/ James Surowiecki on the dangers of ownership. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Andy Borowitz/ Pavlov's Brother LETTER FROM IRAQ/ Jon Lee Anderson/ Out on the Street/ The policy that is fuelling...
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November 02, 2004
Issue of 2004-11-08 Posted 2004-11-01 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ THE CURSE OF CURSES/ Roger Angell on the Boston Red Sox' win. THE PICTURES/ NOT ENJOYING IT/ Larissa MacFarquhar talks with the actor Paul Giamatti. DEPT. OF AMBIVALENCE/ THE STRUGGLE/ Margaret Talbot attends an anti-gay-marriage rally. POWWOWS/ THE CROSSING/ Robert Sullivan on a canoe trip across the Hudson. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ MIXED MOTIVES/ James Surowiecki on corporate-insurance scandals. SHOUTS & MURMURS/Ian Frazier/ Kid Court FICTION/ Jonathan Franzen/ "Breakup...
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October 25, 2004
Issue of 2004-11-01 Posted 2004-10-25 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ THE CHOICE/ The Editors on the coming election. [They used the first 3,856 words lay out Bush's incompetence, failings, deceptions, and dangers, and 677 words to endorse Kerry as a strong, principled corrective and source of hope.] A REPORTER AT LARGE/ Peter J. Boyer/ The Believer/ Paul Wolfowitz defends the war. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Paul Simms/ Making a Difference FICTION/ Lara Vapnyar/ "Memoirs of a Muse" PORTFOLIO/ Democracy...
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October 18, 2004
Issue of 2004-10-25 Posted 2004-10-18 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ QUESTIONS OF GREATNESS/ George Packer on the final Presidential debate and the choice ahead. INK/ PRIZE FIGHT/ Ben McGrath on the National Book Awards nominees. IN THE VAULT/ WEIRD LOVE/ Nick Paumgarten on the uncovering of Ed Wood’s last film. DEPT. OF QUANTIFICATION/ MURPHY AT THE BAT/ Ben McGrath contemplates the Red Sox and the science of misfortune. THE BENCH/ FAMILY PORTRAIT/ Dana Goodyear on a contested Klimt....
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October 11, 2004
Issue of 2004-10-18 Posted 2004-10-11 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ STRETCHERS/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the Vice-Presidential debate. HOMEWORK/ TO THE EDITOR/ Daniel Radosh on a class of gifted young letter writers. CONTENDERS/ POST-PUNK/ Nick Paumgarten on the rocker-activist Krist Novoselic. DEPT. OF DETRITUS/ YARD SALE/ Field Maloney on a Central Park junk convention. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ FREE AIR/ James Surowiecki on giving up the digital spectrum. THE POLITICAL SCENE/ Larissa MacFarquhar/ The Pollster/ Does John Zogby know who...
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October 04, 2004
Issue of 2004-10-11 Posted 2004-10-04 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ WINNING/ Elizabeth Kolbert on how the candidates fared in the first Presidential debate. VISITING DIGNITARIES/ DRY RUN/ Andrew Rice on an African election observer’s trip to America. THE SPORTING SCENE/ HARD GUY/ Ben McGrath on Tom Coughlin’s new rules for the New York Giants. POSTSCRIPT/ GARDNER BOTSFORD/ Roger Angell remembers a former New Yorker editor. THE POLITICAL SCENE/ John Cassidy/ Pump Dreams/ Can America get by without foreign...
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September 27, 2004
Issue of 2004-10-04 Posted 2004-09-27 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ INDEFENSIBLE/ Frances FitzGerald on the President’s missile-defense fixation. THE WEEK IN DIGNITARIES/ HOT TICKET/ Ben McGrath at an appearance by the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf. ROME POSTCARD/ BOFFO BEATITUDE/ John Seabrook on how Mel Gibson might have helped make a saint. OVERHAULS/ POINT OF VIEW/ Dana Goodyear on the Marriott Marquis’s revolving restaurant’s new look. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ GOOD GROOMING/ James Surowiecki on Michael Eisner and the...
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September 20, 2004
Issue of 2004-09-27 Posted 2004-09-20 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ THE POLITICAL WAR/ George Packer on why Iraq isn’t hurting the President. THE BENCH/ DELETED/ Jeffrey Toobin on the history of wartime freedom of speech. PUBLICATION DAY/ SWING VOTER/ Adam Green drives around New York with Kitty Kelley. PARTISANS/ BIG CHEESE/ Blake Eskin on political dairy products. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ PENNY WISE/ James Surowiecki on selling to the poor. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Ian Frazier/ Hooked PROFILES/ Judith Thurman/...
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September 13, 2004
Issue of 2004-09-20 Posted 2004-09-13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ PRISONERS OF THE CAUCASUS/ David Remnick on the familiarity of Russia’s Chechnya problem. DOWN THE STRETCH/ CONVENTIONAL WISDOM/ Ben McGrath compares the Red Sox and the Yankees to Democrats and Republicans. THE HOME FRONT/ NAMES/ William Finnegan at a vigil for the first thousand troops who died in Iraq. DEPT. OF FOREIGN RELATIONS/ THE BORAT DOCTRINE/ Daniel Radosh reviews some televised misconceptions about Kazakhstan. BEQUESTS/ A HANDYMAN’S GIFT/...
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September 06, 2004
Issue of 2004-09-13 Posted 2004-09-06 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ IN MODERATION/ Hendrik Hertzberg compares the face of the Republican Party to its platform. DEPT. OF DISCOURSE/ CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE/ Ben McGrath roams the Republican Convention. GIVERS/ MONEY HONEYS/ Lillian Ross rubs elbows with the rhinestone Republicans. ON THE AIR/ YOUNG AMERICANS/ Dana Goodyear on a group of preteen pundits. CAMPAIGN JOURNAL/ Philip Gourevitch/ Bushspeak/ How the President works the crowds. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Paul Rudnick/ Running Mates PROFILES/...
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August 31, 2004
Issue of 2004-09-06 Posted 2004-08-30 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ UNDER FIRE/ Hendrik Hertzberg on Republican attacks. THE BIG SHOW/ SCOOPS/ Ben McGrath on the tricks of the news cycle. DEPT. OF IMPERSONATION/ REPORTING FOR DUTY/ Tad Friend meets a copycat Kerry. ON THE MOUND/ BITTERNESS/ Michael Shapiro on the curveball career of Jae Weong Seo. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ COME ONE, COME ALL/ James Surowiecki on how cities sell themselves to conventions. TASTE TECHNOLOGIES/ Malcolm Gladwell/ The Ketchup...
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August 23, 2004
Issue of 2004-08-30 Posted 2004-08-23 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ G.O.P. CITY/ William Finnegan on the Big Apple’s Republican past. PUBLIC LIFE/ TRICKY DICK/ Tom Miller catches up with the twentieth century’s premier political prankster. THE WAITING ROOM/ AUGUST/ Adam Green on shrinks doing jury duty. AT THE BEACH/ FLIP-FLOP EMERGENCY/ Rebecca Mead on J.Crew’s beach delivery. THE NATIONAL INTEREST/ CANNONBALL!/ Field Maloney on the big dive. LETTER FROM ATHENS/ George Packer/ The Playing Field/ Iraqis and Americans...
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August 16, 2004
Issue of 2004-08-23 Posted 2004-08-16 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ DANGERS PRESENT/ Nicholas Lemann on the Committee on the Present Danger, recently re-formed, and the price of peril. THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL/ DRY/ Adam Green on the fortunes of America's Prohibition Party. AT THE BARRICADES/ JITTERS/ Jeffrey Toobin on New Yorkers getting ready to protest the Republican National Convention. HIGH AND TIGHT DEPT./ NEW JERSEY HAIRCUT/ Ben McGrath on the way of old-guard barbers. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ AUTOPILOT/ James...
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August 07, 2004
Issue of 2004-08-09 Posted 2004-08-02 The Talk of The Town COMMENT/ CONVENTIONAL WARFARE/ David Remnick on John Kerry's acceptance speech. CONVENTION DIARY/ COMERS/ Ben McGrath on the moving and shaking at the Democratic National Convention. THE WAYWARD PRESS/ BOSTON TERRIER/ John Cassidy at the conservative Boston Herald. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/CASH KILLS/ James Surowiecki on the dangers of corporate savings. DEPARTMENT OF ENTERTAINMENT/ Adam Green/ Standup for the Lord/ The career of a Christian comedian. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Andy Borowitz/...
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July 26, 2004
Issue of 2004-08-02 Posted 2004-07-26 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ BIG DOINGS/ Roger Angell on what’s happening this summer. SPORTS DEPT./ THE FLOOR MOVED/ Ben McGrath follows a basketball court across town. THE BENCH/ U.S. V. STEWART, PART II/ Jeffrey Toobin on an embattled defense lawyer. THE LITTLE GUY/ CHEAP GAS/ Field Maloney reports on a renegade gas-station owner. ON THE SET/ CANDIDATE/ Michael Agger on the making of a meta-movie. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Bruce McCall/ Do Not...
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July 19, 2004
Issue of 2004-07-26 Posted 2004-07-19 TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ SOCIAL MOBILITY/ Adam Gopnik on the city’s pedicabs, a sharp symbol of a new American reality. DEPT. OF EDUCATION/ THE PET GOAT APPROACH/ Daniel Radosh on a notorious reading workbook. CHEST OUT, STOMACH IN/ ALL THAT YOU CAN BE/ Karen Schaler on cosmetic surgery for soldiers. SECOND FIDDLE DEPT./NO. 1 AUTHORITY/ Ben McGrath interviews an expert on Vice-Presidents. THE OLD BALLGAME/ CAMARADERIE/ Lillian Ross on a baseball Hall of...
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July 05, 2004
Issue of 2004-07-12 and 19 Posted 2004-07-05 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ BLOWING BUBBLES/ John Cassidy on the dubious longevity of Alan Greenspan. DEPT. OF RABBLE-ROUSING/ THE CHICAGO PRECEDENT/ Ben McGrath on Pat Buchanan’s convention memories—and plans. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ PAYING TO PLAY/ James Surowiecki on the new payola. IN THE BELTWAY/ THE VICE-PRESIDENT’S DOCTOR/ Jane Mayer on what happened to Dr. Gary Malakoff. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Patricia Marx/ Chain Letter LETTER FROM CAIRO/ David Remnick/ Going Nowhere/...
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June 28, 2004
Issue of 2004-07-05 Posted 2004-06-28 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ WARS AND IDEAS/ George Packer on ideologies of government in the new sovereign Iraq. DEPT. OF BUILDING/ WINNING THE WEST/ William Finnegan on a stadium, a highway, and the fate of the West Side. ON THE MAT/ TAKEDOWN/ Ben McGrath on the U.S. women’s wrestling team. INK/ GANGSTA CONTENT/ Adam Green on Don Diva, a magazine about the streets. DEPT. OF DISCRETION/ BY POPULAR DEMAND/ Dana Goodyear on...
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June 22, 2004
Now I fear that my entire life may be punctuated incorrectly (it is)....
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June 21, 2004
Issue of 2004-06-28 Posted 2004-06-21 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ WINNER/ Hendrik Hertzberg on what Reagan did right. PEN PAL DEPT./ TIME SERVED/ Ben McGrath on what the shoe bomber Richard Reid is reading. SH-H-H!/ WORSE THAN HIS BITE/ Eric Konigsberg on hushing the city’s dogs. THE PICTURES/ GROSS AND GROSSER/ Michael Agger on a peculiar Asian film festival. RETURN TO SENDER/ BRAINS/ Marshall Efron on the plight of a literate letter. POSTSCRIPT/ Edmund Morris/ The Unknowable/ Remembering...
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June 07, 2004
Issue of 2004-06-14 & 21 Posted 2004-06-07 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ MONEY, MONEY, MONEY/ Hendrik Hertzberg on what cash can—and can’t—buy a candidate. EUREKA DEPT./ THE SUICIDE POEM/ Joshua Wolf Shenk reads confessional verse by, perhaps, Abraham Lincoln. THE ABSENTEE BALLOT/ A DEMOCRATIC IRAQ?/ Ben McGrath on the Donkeys in the Desert. YOU LOOK MARVELLOUS DEPT./ THE NEW PORTRAIT/ Dana Goodyear on vanity short films. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ PERK HOGS/ James Surowiecki on pampered executives. FICTION/ Aleksandar...
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May 31, 2004
Ms. (Katherine) Milkman (Princeton '04), who has a minor in American studies, read 442 stories printed in The New Yorker from Oct. 5, 1992, to Sept. 17, 2001, and built a substantial database. She then constructed a series of rococo mathematical tests to discern, among other things, whether certain fiction editors at the magazine had a specific impact on the type of fiction that was published, the sex of authors and the race of characters... Among Ms. Milkman's least shocking...
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It's my guess that we cling to the harsher bits of the past not just as a warning system to remind us that the next Indian raid or suddenly veering, tower-bound 757 is always waiting but as a passport to connect us to the rest of the world, whose horrors are available each morning and evening on television or in the Times. And the cold moment that returns to mind and sticks there, unbidden, may be preferable to the alternative...
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Issue of 2004-06-07 Posted 2004-05-31 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ NEW-TIME RELIGION/ Hendrik Hertzberg on faith in the Presidency. DEPT. OF EXONERATION/ FACE IN THE CROWD/ Jeffrey Toobin on a televised alibi. ROME POSTCARD/ ASK PASQUINO/ John Seabrook on how Rome is preparing for Bush’s visit. REËNACTMENT/ BURR VS. HAMILTON/ Ben McGrath meets the winner of an upcoming duel. DEPT. OF INVENTION/ INCOMPREHENSIBLE/ Alec Wilkinson rubs brains with dorkbots. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Evan Eisenberg/ Bushido: The Way of...
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May 24, 2004
Issue of 2004-05-31 Posted 2004-05-24 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ RISK MANAGEMENT/ Elizabeth Kolbert on the 9/11 Commission and what’s keeping us from preparing for terrorist attacks. HOLLYWOOD POSTCARD/ DOPPELGÄNGERS/ Kevin Conley reports from the stunt-doubles awards show. INK/ A BOOK IN YOU/ Daniel Radosh on bloggers, book deals, and an aspiring literary agent. [Related: Choire's back from a vacation spent, if this acid is any indication, peddling a book proposal. Welcome home. Suckah.] ON THE BALLOT/ FUTURE...
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May 17, 2004
Issue of 2004-05-24 Posted 2004-05-17 THE TALK OF THE TOWN AT THE MUSEUMS/ A PICASSO FACE-LIFT/ Calvin Tomkins admires "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." THE PICTURES/ WRECKED AGAIN/ Tad Friend considers the city’s prime place in the disaster-film genre. DRY RUN DEPT./ SH-H-H/ Leo Carey hears a silent movement performed on the piano. DEPT. OF PREVENTION/ PITCHING RUBBERS/ Ben McGrath on a South African cast of talking prophylactics. COMMENT/ UNCONVENTIONAL WAR/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the consequences of bending the rules of...
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May 10, 2004
Issue of 2004-05-17 Posted 2004-05-10 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ HEARTS AND MINDS/ David Remnick on the failures at Abu Ghraib. URBAN STUDIES/ CITIES AND SONGS/ Adam Gopnik talks with the visiting urban critic Jane Jacobs. INK/ ISN’T IT ROMANTIC?/ Rebecca Mead on the pulp author Melanie Craft. UP TO HERE DEPT./ A KERRY REPUBLICAN/ Eric Konigsberg on a growing crowd of party drifters. THREADS/ FAMILY BUSINESS/ Lillian Ross meets three generations of haberdashers. ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY/...
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May 03, 2004
Issue of 2004-05-10 Posted 2004-05-03 (and 2004-04-30) THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ LOSING: THE VIRUS/ Roger Angell on the slightly wounded pride of the Yankees. DEPT. OF PREDICTION/ COMPLEX PROCESS/ Ben McGrath on foretelling Presidential outcomes by reading between the lines. ON THE HUSTINGS/ THE CANDIDATE/ Alec Wilkinson on a onetime longshoreman and retired State Supreme Court judge who’s running for Congress. DEPT. OF OPINION/ A BOTTLE OF WINE/ Field Maloney spends an afternoon with a master British...
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April 26, 2004
Issue of 2004-05-03 Posted 2004-04-26 THE TALK OF THE TOWN POSTSCRIPT/ David Remnick remembers Philip Hamburger COMMENT/ ON THE AIR/ Elizabeth Kolbert on the President’s murky environmental policy. THE MOVEMENT/ CHANGES/ Rebecca Mead attends a feminist-movement reunion. DEPT. OF STYLE/ WORD PROBLEM/ Gary Bass on defining genocide at the Times. SPRING FEVER DEPT./ SUBSTITUTE/ Austin Kelley examines the Columbia teaching assistants’ strike. SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Christopher Buckley/ Man of Attack LETTER FROM BAGHDAD/ Jon Lee Anderson/ The Uprising/ Confrontations...
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April 12, 2004
Issue of 2004-04-19 and 26 Posted 2004-04-12 THE TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ ESCALATION/ David Remnick on the widening war in Iraq. OUR CONSTABULARY/ WANTED/ Ben McGrath on the secret life of city marshals. THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL/ PARDON?/ Joshua Kurlantzick on what’s bad about John Kerry’s good French. CAMPUS POSTCARD/ A PILE OF PAPER/ Evan Ratliff on a collegiate parody publication. THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ HAIL TO THE GEEK/ James Surowiecki on how the Bush Administration has politicized economic data....
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April 05, 2004
Issue of 2004-04-12 Posted 2004-04-05 TALK OF THE TOWN COMMENT/ RELUCTANT WITNESSES/ Hendrik Hertzberg on how the White House
