Temporary Disabled. :) please Go back The New Yorker www.fgks.org » Address: [go: up one dir, main page] Include Form Remove Scripts Accept Cookies Show Images Show Referer Rotate13 Base64 Strip Meta Strip Title Session Cookies Skip to content Subscribe to The New Yorker Subscribe for $1 an issue Give a gift Renew your Subscription Subscription Questions Reporting & Essays Arts & Culture Humor Fiction & Poetry The Talk of The Town Online Only Subscribe About Us Archive Store Around 1993, Banksy’s graffiti began appearing on trains and walls around Bristol; by 2001, his blocky spray-painted signature had cropped up all over the United Kingdom, eliciting both civic hand-wringing and comparisons to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Vienna, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Paris followed… SLIDE SHOW: BANKSY’S ART BOOKS What ElseIs New? by Steven Shapin How uses, not innovations, drive human technology. BROWSE BRIEFLY NOTED Dept. of Archeology Fragmentary Knowledge by John Seabrook Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? SLIDE SHOW Annals of Communications Critical Mass by Ken Auletta Everyone listens to Walter Mossberg. MORE BY AULETTA Since all industries crave foreign markets to expand into but fear foreign competitors encroaching on their home turf, they lobby their governments to tilt the rules in their favor. Usually, this involves manipulating tariffs and quotas. But, of late, a troubling twist in the game has become more common, as countries use free-trade agreements to rewrite the laws of their trading partners… ANNALS OF SCIENCE Crash Course by Elizabeth Kolbert Can a seventeen-mile-long collider unlock the universe? SLIDE SHOW: THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER AUDIO The Perfect Wave with Burkhard Bilger The revolutionary tone of Parker guitars. MORE ONLINE ONLY FICTION Hanwell Senior by Zadie Smith First to raise a glass and last to put it down. SMITH: “HANWELL IN HELL” (2004) more animations from the issue cartoon bank e-mail this TABLE OF CONTENTS The issue of May 14, 2007. ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS Ken Auletta: Everyone listens to Walter Mossberg. ANNALS OF SCIENCE Elizabeth Kolbert: Can a seventeen-mile-long collider unlock the universe? DEPT. OF ARCHEOLOGY John Seabrook: Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world's first computer? PROFILES Larissa MacFarquhar: Where is Barack Obama coming from? MacFarquhar answers readers’ questions ONLINE ONLY Slide Show: The work of the graffiti artist Banksy. ONLINE ONLY Audio: Burkhard Bilger considers the revolutionary tone of Parker guitars. ONLINE ONLY Slide Show: Examining the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient “computer.” ONLINE ONLY Slide Show: Images of the Large Hadron Collider. COMMENT George Packer: Truth and no consequences. COMMENT Elizabeth Kolbert: Why congestion pricing works. COMMENT Adam Gopnik: Why Virginia Tech happened. COMMENT Nick Paumgarten: The radio host has been knocked out of the bracket. COMMENT Philip Gourevitch: Zimbabwe, the sick man of Africa. COMMENT MORE COMMENT THE TALK OF THE TOWN Roger Angell: A city without horses. THE TALK OF THE TOWN Paul Goldberger: An imaginary skyline at J.F.K. THE TALK OF THE TOWN Ben McGrath: Rupert Murdoch eyes the Wall Street Journal. THE TALK OF THE TOWN Anthony Lane: At a pub with Julie Christie. THE FINANCIAL PAGE James Surowiecki: The hidden agenda in free-trade agreements. THE FINANCIAL PAGE James Surowiecki: The trouble with layoffs. THE FINANCIAL PAGE James Surowiecki: Conrad Black and the case against corporate prosecutions. THE FINANCIAL PAGE James Surowiecki: A suprising hitch to becoming a superpower. THE FINANCIAL PAGE MORE FINANCIAL PAGE SHOUTS & MURMURS Ian Frazier: “What I Am.” SHOUTS & MURMURS Paul Simms: “Four Short Crushes.” SHOUTS & MURMURS Henry Alford: “The Knowledge.” SHOUTS & MURMURS David Owen: “Passing.” FICTION Zadie Smith: “Hanwell Senior.” FICTION Colm Tóibín: “One Minus One.” FICTION Richard Rayner: “After the Movie.” FICTION John Burnside: “Something Like Happy.” POETRY Phillis Levin: “On Time.” POETRY Charles Simic: “Listen.” POETRY Mahmoud Darwish: “Remainder of a Life.” POETRY Patti Smith: “Tara.” ARCHIVE Eugene Kinkead: Splitting the uranium atom, from 1945. ARCHIVE S. Krim, C. Danford, and Brendan Gill: Columbia’s new cyclotron, from 1950. ARCHIVE Matthew Maranz: Dismantling the cyclotron, from 1989. ARCHIVE Zadie Smith: “Hanwell in Hell,” from 2004. GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN Our weekly cultural listings. MOVIES David Denby: “Lucky You” and “Away from Her.” MOVIES Anthony Lane: “Spider-Man 3” and “The Treatment.” MOVIES Anthony Lane: A centenary season of Barbara Stanwyck. MOVIES Anthony Lane: “Hot Fuzz” and “The Valet.” BOOKS Steven Shapin: How uses, not innovations, drive human technology. BOOKS Hilton Als: A look at the life of Ralph Ellison. BOOKS John Updike: The life of Aimee Semple McPherson. BOOKS Briefly Noted: “The Last Mughal,” by William Dalrymple. MUSIC Sasha Frere-Jones: The Cornelius Group’s “Sensuous Synchronized Show.” MUSIC Russell Platt: A resurgence of the string trio. MUSIC Sasha Frere-Jones: New albums from Tori Amos and Björk. MUSIC Alex Ross: The essential recordings of Esa-Pekka Salonen. TELEVISION Nancy Franklin: Capturing the eyes, as well as the ears, of America. TELEVISION Nancy Franklin: “The Riches.” TELEVISION Tad Friend: “The Sarah Silverman Program” puts the mean back in funny. TELEVISION Tad Friend: Aspiring rock journalists pursue the dream. THE THEATRE Hilton Als: An attempt to revive Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. THE THEATRE John Lahr: Noah Haidle and S. N. Behrman on the creative life. THE THEATRE Hilton Als: Eugene O’Neill and David Harrower on the failures of the heart. THE THEATRE John Lahr: Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking.” ART Peter Schjeldahl: Chris Burden and the limits of art. ART Vince Aletti: The photographs of Vik Muniz. ART Peter Schjeldahl: Feminist art at the Brooklyn Museum. ART Simon Schama: Picasso looks back. DANCE Joan Acocella: A punk-colored ballet by the Bolshoi’s artistic director. DANCE Joan Acocella: Flamenco on film. DANCE Joan Acocella: The swan song of New York City Ballet’s senior ballerina. DANCE Joan Acocella: New work by John Jasperse. THE SKY LINE Paul Goldberger: Steven Holl rethinks the museum-extension genre. THE SKY LINE Paul Goldberger: A new home from old roads. THE SKY LINE Paul Goldberger: Rethinking the legacy of Robert Moses. THE SKY LINE Paul Goldberger: How to use Frank Gehry and how not to. TABLES FOR TWO Leo Carey: Lunetta, on Smith Street. TABLES FOR TWO Nick Paumgarten: Morandi, in Greenwich Village. TABLES FOR TWO Kate Julian: Spiga, on the Upper West Side. TABLES FOR TWO Andrea Thompson: The E.U., in the East Village. Classical Music: The early-music luminary Jordi Savall, in town for two concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Browse complete listings View the table of contents. enter | vote | results Nicolas Sarkozy is the new French President. In April, Jane Kramer wrote about the election. Rupert Murdoch has made an offer to buy Dow Jones. In 2003, Ken Auletta wrote about the Wall Street Journal and its uncertain future. St. Augustine holds what may be its final jazz Mass, and more daily dispatches by Dan Baum. MORE FROM NEW ORLEANS CONTRIBUTORS‘ BLOGS In Plain Sight: The art work of Banksy, including an exclusive image. Pieces of History: Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism. Tunnel Vision: Photographs of the Large Hadron Collider. The Perfect Wave: Burkhard Bilger explores the sounds of Ken Parker’s guitars. Sirens: Sasha Frere-Jones listens to Tori Amos and Björk. Working with the Americans: An Iraqi interpreter tells his story, from invasion to exile. A New Friend: Julie Christie in a clip from “Away From Her,” based on an Alice Munro short story. Making Them Talk: Jane Mayer analyzes torture scenes from the television show “24.” Animated New Yorker cartoons. Larissa MacFarquhar’s answers to readers’ questions about Barack Obama. Submit a question The New Yorker has been nominated for a Webby Award for Best Copy/Writing. Vote for us at webbyawards.com. The return of the Film File; and a searchable index, with abstracts, back to 1925. newsletter sign-up The New Yorker This Week: Links to articles and Web-only features, delivered to your e-mail inbox. 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