2005-03-28, This Week In The New Yorker

Issue of 2005-03-28
Posted 2005-03-21
THE TALK OF
THE TOWN
COMMENT/
UNTRUSTWORTHY/ Hendrik Hertzberg on the what the Social Security fund
means.
WIND
ON CAPITOL HILL/ SOFTBALL/ Ben McGrath attends the congressional
hearings on steroids in baseball.
THE
BOARDS/ STREETCAR UPDATE/ Lillian Ross on a Tennessee Williams
revival.
IN
YOUR FUTURE/ POPSTROLOGICALLY SPEAKING/ Nick Paumgarten tries out
the newest personality indicators.
THE
FINANCIAL PAGE/ LOCAL ZEROES/ James Surowiecki on the rash of
home-town boys gone bad.
SHOUTS
& MURMURS/ Larry Doyle/ Disengagements
ANNALS
OF COMMUNICATION/ Ken Auletta/ THE NEW PITCH/ Do ads still work?
FICTION/
David Gates/ “A Secret Station”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS/
John Updike/ Incommensurability/ A new biography of Kierkegaard.
THE
THEATRE/ John Lahr/ March Madness/ Monty Python takes on Broadway.
BOOKS/
Louis Menand/ Something About Kathy/ Ishiguro’s quasi-science-fiction
novel.
MUSICAL
EVENTS/ Alex Ross/ Kafka Sings / Two new operas: Ruders’s “Kafka’s
Trial,” Adamo’s “Lysistrata.”
THE
CURRENT CINEMA/ Anthony Lane/ Ghosts/ “The Ring Two” and “Oldboy.”
FROM THE ARCHIVES
PROFILES/
John McNulty/ The Sizzle/ A profile of the slogan-maker Elmer Wheeler/
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