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June 30, 2008

June 2008

JUNE 30, 2008
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COMMENT
What’s the Big Idea?
The Obama puzzle.
by Dorothy Wickenden
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Dept. of Diplomacy: Second Act
An unlikely ambassador for the Central African Republic.
by Rebecca Mead

Hoops: School Night
The seventeen-year-old basketball wonder Lance Stephenson.
by Josh Hersh

What Do We Want Dept.: Smelly Trees
A campaign against New York City’s ginkgo tree.
by Lauren Collins

Little Green Men Dept.: Space Dirt
Building robots for Mars exploration.
by Ben McGrath
ANNALS OF RELIGION
The New Evangelicals
A growing challenge to the religious right.
by Frances FitzGerald
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Animal Tales
by Simon Rich
PERSONAL HISTORY
Altered State
Scenes from a Pennsylvania girlhood.
by Andrea Lee
THE WORLD OF BUSINESS
The Brass Ring
Sheldon Adelson’s quest for global influence.
by Connie Bruck
ANNALS OF MEDICINE
The Itch
A new science of scratching.
by Atul Gawande

Audio: Gawande on the science behind itching.
FICTION
Deep-Holes
by Alice Munro
POEMS
“The Evening is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away”
by Charles Wright

“Return of the Prodigal”
by Charles Wright

“Propofol”
by Karl Kirchwey
BOOKS
Ma Jian’s “Beijing Coma.”
by Pankaj Mishra

Briefly Noted: “The Pact”; “Austerity Britain”; “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”; “Personal Days”
THE SKY LINE
New visions in the Beijing skyline.
by Paul Goldberger

Slide Show
THE THEATRE
“Hamlet” in the Park.
by John Lahr
ON TELEVISION
“Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” “MVP.”
by Nancy Franklin
DANCING
Twyla Tharp’s “Rabbit and Rogue.”
by Joan Acocella
THE CURRENT CINEMA
“Wanted,” “The Happening.”
by Anthony Lane
Orchestra Baobab’s bewitching mix of styles.
by Sasha Frere-Jones

The first hundred years of photography.
by Vince Aletti

Anthony Mann’s audacious frontier noir.
by Richard Brody
TABLES FOR TWO
Bar Q
by Ligaya Mishan
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The Theatre
Art
Night Life
Dance
Classical
Movies
Readings and Talks
Above and Beyond
On the Horizon
THE MAIL
Annabeth Bondor-Stone; Carrie Murphy; Léo F. Laporte; Ehud Isacoff
“Subway Man”
Roz Chast
DRAWINGS
David Sipress, Frank Cotham, David Borchart, P. C. Vey, Lee Lorenz, Jack Ziegler, Matthew Diffee, Carolita Johnson, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Leo Cullum, Drew Dernavich, Liza Donnelly, Charles Barsotti
SPOTS
Anders Wenngren
06 26, 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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