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 cityís 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 Ronald Reagan.
SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Bruce McCall/ Olympics Countdown Quickens
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY/ Seymour M. Hersh/ Plan B/ Israel explores its options in Iraq.
FICTION/ Louise Erdrich/ "The Plague of Doves"
THE CRITICS
BOOKS/ John Updike/ Silent Master/ Henry James becomes the hero of a historical novel.
BOOKS/ Louis Menand/ Bad Comma/ Lynne Trussís strange grammar.
POP MUSIC/ Sasha Frere-Jones/ Singles/ Whatís on the radio.
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ David Denby/ George & Me/ Michael Mooreís viciously funny attack on the Bush Administration.
ON TELEVISION/ Nancy Franklin/ The Fox Box/ The network cancels our summer vacation.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
PROFILES/ Larissa Macfarquhar/ THE POPULIST/ Michael Moore can make you cry./ Issue of 2004-02-16 & 23
