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 observerís trip to America.
THE SPORTING SCENE/ HARD GUY/ Ben McGrath on Tom Coughlinís 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 oil?
A REPORTER AT LARGE/ Michael Specter/ The Devastation/ Russia may be dying as a nation, and it faces a threat that no one will talk about: AIDS.
POSTSCRIPT/ Adam Gopnik/ Richard Avedon/ A portrait of the photographer.
FICTION/ Charles D'Ambrosio/ "The Scheme of Things"
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE/ David Denby/ Northern Lights/ How modern life emerged from eighteenth-century Edinburgh.
ON TELEVISION/ Nancy Franklin/ Tanner Revisited/ Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau revive their candidate.
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ David Denby/ Playing Parts/ "Vera Drake and "Stage Beauty."
FROM THE ARCHIVE
ANNALS OF MEDICINE/ Michael Specter/ India's Plague/ From a series of reports on the global AIDS crisis/ Issue of 2001-12-17
A REPORTER AT LARGE/ Michael Specter/ The Vaccine/ AIDS in Africa, from a series/ Issue of 2003-02-03