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 Presidentís 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 assistantsí strike.
SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Christopher Buckley/ Man of Attack
LETTER FROM BAGHDAD/ Jon Lee Anderson/ The Uprising/ Confrontations with Sunnis and Shia.
FICTION/ Edward P. Jones/ "Old Boys, Old Girls"
THE CRITICS
THEATRE/ Stalkers and Talkers/ John Lahr/ Sondheim and Stoppard on Broadway.
BOOKS/ Did Brown Matter?/ Cass R. Sunstein/ On the fiftieth anniversary of the fabled desegregation case, not everyone is celebrating.
THE ART WORLD/ Bare Minimal/ Peter Schjeldahl/ Views from New York and Los Angeles. ["Thereís the rub of minimalism, which always endorses some or another faceless power." Schjeldahl manages to write a review that pretends Felix Gonzalez-Torres--and Robert Gober, and Anne Truitt, for that matter--don't exist.]
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ In the Name of Love/ Anthony Lane/ "Laws of Attraction" and "Monty Pythonís Life of Brian."
FROM THE ARCHIVE
A REPORTER AT LARGE/ A Meeting in Atlanta/ Bernard Taper/ Issue of 1956-03-17/ Attending a N.A.A.C.P meeting with Thurgood Marshall and others.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN/ Bettmann Archive/ Philip Hamburger's first piece for the magazine/ Issue of 1939-04-08
Philip Hamburger's last piece for the magazine, from the issue of 2003-12-08
Addendum: You don't have to read it at work, you know. They will send the magazine to your house, if you pay them.
