Posted 2005-05-02
Issue of 2005-05-09
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT/ THE
MATT AND JUDY SHOW/ Hendrik Hertzberg on Judith Miller, Matthew Cooper, and the freedom of the press.
DEPT. OF PALEONTOLOGY/ DINOMITE/ Adam Gopnik on new dinosaurs at the American Museum
of Natural History.
THE PICTURES/ TWO DAMES/ Lillian Ross on Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
ON PROBATION/ SURE BEATS WORK/ Jeffrey Toobin on Martha Stewart's probation.
DANCE DEPARTMENT/ LEAVING AILEY/ Joan Acocella on a sixty-something dancer.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON/ Jeffrey Goldberg/ A Little Learning/ A key strategist of the Iraq war looks back.
SHOUTS & MURMURS Patricia Marx/ Audio Tour
LIFE & LETTERS/ Cynthia Zarin/ The Diarist/ How a harried Englishwoman set a trend.
ANNALS OF SCIENCE/ Elizabeth Kolbert/ The Climate of ManóIII/ Why is the Bush Administration ignoring the dangers of global warming?
PROFILES/ Stanley Crouch/ The Colossus/ When Sonny Rollins is at his best./
FICTION/ Nick Arvin/ "Along the Highways"
THE CRITICS
DANCING/ Joan Acocella/ Spring Steps/ Three great seasons in one month.
BOOKS/ John Updike/ Bitter Bamboo/ Two novels from China.
THE ART WORLD/ Peter Schjeldahl/ Parked Cars/ American Photo-Realism at its best.
THE THEATRE/ John Lahr/ Survivors/ "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Glengarry Glen Ross" return to Broadway.
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ Anthony Lane/ Personal Battles/ "Kingdom of Heaven" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
FROM THE ARCHIVE
TALK OF THE TOWN/ Sabbatical/ In this piece, from 1961, Whitney Balliett writes about Sonny Rollinsís decision to withdraw from performance for creative and spiritual reasons.
ANNALS OF SCIENCE/ Elizabeth Kolbert/ The Climate of ManóI/ The third in a three-part series on the reality of climate change appears in this weekís magazine. The first part appears
here.
ANNALS OF SCIENCE/ Elizabeth Kolbert/ The Climate of ManóII
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