Issue of 2005-06-27
Posted 2005-06-20
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT/ WATCHED POT/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the Supreme Court and medical marijuana.
D.C. POSTCARD/ TYSON'S CORNER/ David Remnick on Mike Tyson's last round.
DEPT. OF SECOND ACTS/ TO BOLDLY GO/ Rebecca Mead on Leonard Nimoy, photographer.
DEPT. OF URBAN RENEWAL/ STADIA MANIA/ Nick Paumgarten on Ry Cooder's latest album, and urban stadiums.
THE FINANCIAL PAGE/ COPS AND ROBBERS/ James Surowiecki on tracking down fraud.
ANNALS OF EDUCATION/ Hanna Rosin/ God and Country/ The Christian feeder college for the G.O.P.
LETTER FROM EUROPE/ Jane Kramer/ Painting the Town/ A former artist reinvents Albanian politics. [not currently online]
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS/ Alec Wilkinson/ The Crossing/ Tackling the Pacific on a homemade raft. [not currently online]
FICTION/ J. M. Coetzee/ "The Blow" [not currently online]
THE CRITICS
BOOKS/ Louis Menand/ Fat Man/ Herman Kahn and the nuclear age.
THE THEATRE/ Hilton Als/ Kicking Up Dust/ Chekhov and Maugham on Broadway.
MUSICAL EVENTS/ Alex Ross/ Sound and Vision/ Glass's "Koyaanisqatsi" and the art of film scoring.
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ Anthony Lane/ Bewildered/ "Bewitched," "Me and You and Everyone We Know," "Yes."
FROM THE ARCHIVE
TALK OF THE TOWN/ Paul Brodeur/ 1969 to 2019/ On Herman Kahnís appearance at a conference, in 1969, on the future of New York, and his plan for doubling the size of Central Park./ Issue of 1969-02-22
PROFILES/ Calvin Trillin/ The Newspaperman's Newspaperman/ Gene Miller, a legendary Miami Herald reporter and editor, died last week of cancer. He edited fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Buchanan, who Trillin profiled here./ Issue of 1986-02-17
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