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ILLUSTRATION: EDEL RODRIGUEZ
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: Made in Africa, by Sasha Frere-Jones
Orchestra Baobab was formed thirty-eight years ago, in Dakar, but time has done nothing to diminish the group’s quiet intensity. The band mixes so many regional styles that listeners can easily think they’re hearing three or four different genres…
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BLOG: Goings On
Cultural happenings in New York and elsewhere, both online and off.

DVD NOTES

Way-Out West

by Richard Brody
Anthony Mann’s audacious frontier noir.
THE FILM FILE

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Master Class

by Vince Aletti
The first hundred years of photography.

TABLES FOR TWO

Bar Q

by Ligaya Mishan
Elegant barbecue, in the West Village.
THE FOOD PAGE
PHOTOGRAPH: GUS POWELL
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
A selective guide to cultural events in and around New York City.
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ABOVE AND BEYOND | ON THE HORIZON
 
06 25, 2008
Atul Gawande on the woman who couldn’t stop scratching.
BLOGS
Goings On: A Monet twofer, women as chefs, and more.
The Book Bench: Extreme self-publishing, writers’ cluttered rooms, and more.
Hendrik Hertzberg points out Bill O’Reilly’s errors.
Sasha Frere-Jones loves a certain kind of noise.
Michael Crawford discovers a Chekhov-Chandler collaboration.
SEE ALL BLOGS
THE NAKED CAMPAIGN
ILLUSTRATION: STEVE BRODNER
Video: Steve Brodner paints the pivotal states in the electoral college.
IN THIS ISSUE
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AWARDS
The New Yorker has won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
VIDEO
Not a Game: Scenarios from Virtual Iraq, a virtual-reality simulation adapted from the video game Full Spectrum Warrior, with commentary by Sue Halpern.
Trapped: The ordeal of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for forty-one hours.
Abandoned in Baghdad: Scenes from George Packer’s play “Betrayed.”
Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
The Naked Campaign: Steve Brodner draws the Presidential candidates.
AUDIO
Can’t Stop: Atul Gawande explores the science behind itching.
Mouthing Off: Peter J. Boyer talks about Keith Olbermann’s unorthodox style.
Perfect Pitch: Sasha Frere-Jones demonstrates how Auto-Tune transforms the human voice.
Sign Language: Mary Gaitskill discusses Vladimir Nabokov and his story “Symbols and Signs,” in this month’s fiction podcast.
The Campaign Trail: The candidates’ economic positions.
MORE PODCASTS
Spots by Anders Wenngren
SLIDE SHOWS
Big Shorts: A portfolio of photographs of new Beijing architecture.
Chavistas: Photographs of Hugo Chávez and his supporters.
Weird Science: Images from Buckminster Fuller’s world.
Your Eustace: The winners of the 2008 Eustace Tilley Contest.

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Salman Rushdie at NYPL, and more events involving New Yorker contributors.

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