Issue of 2004-02-16
Posted 2004-02-09
The Talk of The Town
COMMENT/ WARRIORS/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the battle readiness of Bush and Kerry.
THE BENCH/ STAR WITNESS/ Jeffrey Toobin at the Martha Stewart trial.
DESIGN DEPT./ CITY LIGHTS/ Ben McGrath gets turned on to street lamps.
NEW KID ON THE BLOCK DEPT./ NAME THIS JOINT/ Dana Goodyear on an anonymous East Village falafel restaurant.
THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ THE PIPELINE PROBLEM/ James Surowiecki on whatís ailing big pharmaceutical companies.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON/ Jane Mayer/ Contract Sport/ What did Dick Cheney do for Halliburton?
PERSONAL HISTORY/ Roger Angell/ La Vie en Rose/ A young couple in Europe after the war.
ANNALS OF POLITICS/ George Packer/ A Democratic World/ Can liberals take on Islamic fundamentalism?
OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS/ Ian Frazier/ Route 3/ The road from New York to America.
PROFILES/ Larissa Macfarquhar/ THE POPULIST/ Michael Moore can make you cry./
FICTION/ Andrea Lee/ "La Ragazza"
THE CRITICS
BOOKS/ John Updike/ All About Abish/ The cerebral experimentalist gets personal.
BOOKS/ Judith Thurman/ Sentimental Re-education/ Two new books address the old subjects of love and lust.
ON TELEVISION/ Nancy Franklin/ American Idol/ For the young hopefuls on "The Apprentice," Trump towers.
THE ART WORLD/ Peter Schjeldahl/ Untouchable/ The Barnes Foundation and its fate. [Not much on the fate, but PS finally goes to the Barnes, and goes appropriately gaga for it. SAVE THE BARNES BY LEAVING IT WHERE IT IS. -ed.]
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ Anthony Lane/ The Creepiest/ John Malkovich as Tom Ripley.
From The Archive
ANNALS OF LAW/ Jeffrey Toobin/ LUNCH AT MARTHA'S/ Problems with the perfect life. [Issue of 2003-02-03
Posted 2004-02-09]
PROFILES/ Mark Singer/ Trump Solo [Issue of 1997-05-19 Posted 2004-02-09]