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./ WHOíS COUNTING?/ Lauren Collins attends a Guinness Book of Records get-together.
SHOUTS & MURMURS/ George Saunders/ Flooding the Zone
ANNALS OF MEDICINE/ Atul Gawande/ The Bell Curve/ Should patients settle for an average doctor?
FICTION/ Andrew O'Hagan/ "Foreigners"
THE CRITICS
BOOKS/Adam Gopnik/ Gypsy/ The life of Django Reinhardt.
BOOKS/ Laura Miller/ Minor Magus/ The fantastical writings of Lord Dunsany.
POP MUSIC/ Sasha Frere-Jones/ Mom? Mom? Mom?/ Eminem's growing pains.
THE ART WORLD/ Peter Schjeldahl/ Easy to Look At/ Old favorites in the new MOMA.
THE THEATRE/ John Lahr/ The Destiny of Me/ Dame Edna, Woody Allen, and the selfish gene.
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ Anthony Lane/ War-Torn/ Oliver Stone's "Alexander."
FROM THE ARCHIVES
EXCERPT/ The Second Decade: 1935-1944/ Nancy Franklin/ A portfolio of old cartoons and an essay published in The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker [which would make someone an excellent holiday gift, don't you think?]
