Issue of 2005-01-10
Posted 2005-01-03
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
LETTER FROM KALAPET/ TSUNAMI/ Akash Kapur reports from the coast of South India.
DEPT. OF MELTDOWNS/ BUSTED/ Rebecca Mead on Bernard B. Kerikís place in the cityís history of scandals.
POSTSCRIPT/ SUSAN SONTAG/ Joan Acocella remembers the writer, who died last week, at the age of seventy-one.
THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ THE CATASTROPHE PROBLEM/ James Surowiecki on insuring against disasters.
ANNALS OF MEDICINE/ THE PEDIATRIC GAP/ JEROME GROOPMAN/ Why have most medications never been properly tested on kids?
SHOUTS & MURMURS/ AIR POCKETS/ BRUCE MCCALL
FICTION/ EDWIDGE DANTICAT/ READING LESSONS
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE/Claudia Roth Pierpont/ Jazzbo/ Why we still listen to Gershwin.
DANCING/ Joan Acocella/ Ladies and Gentlemen/ The Trocks.
POP MUSIC/ Sasha Frere-Jones/ 1 + 1 + 1 = 1/ The new math of mashups.
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ David Denby/ Masters and Servants/ "Spanglish," "The Assassination of Richard Nixon."
FROM THE ARCHIVE
PROFILES/ RACHEL L. CARSON/ The Sea IIIóWind, Sun, and Moon/ A 1951 article, the third of three parts, that considers the science of waves.
A CRITIC AT LARGE/ Susan Sontag/ LOOKING AT WAR/ Photographyís view of devastation and death./ Issue of 2002-12-09
