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BOOKS: Tiananmen’s Wake, by Pankaj Mishra
The massacre at Tiananmen Square, and the additional shock of its erasure from Chinese memory, seem to have been almost as harshly clarifying for Ma Jian and his peers as the failure of the 1848 revolution in France was for Flaubert and his contemporaries…

ANNALS OF MEDICINE

The Itch

by Atul Gawande
A new theory about brains and bodies.
AUDIO

A REPORTER AT LARGE

The Bribe

by Peter J. Boyer
How Dickie Scruggs overstepped, from May.

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Big Kills

by Anthony Lane
“Wanted” and
“The Happening.”
THE FILM FILE
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THE WORLD OF BUSINESS: Roar Like a Lion, by Connie Bruck
Last October, Sheldon Adelson, the gaming multibillionaire, accompanied a group of Republican donors to the White House to meet with George W. Bush. They wanted to talk to the President about Israel…

THE SKY LINE

Forbidden Cities

by Paul Goldberger
New visions in the Beijing skyline.
SLIDE SHOW

FICTION

Deep-Holes

by Alice Munro
Why the hyphen? Sally thought.

DANCING

Guy Stuff

by Joan Acocella
Twyla Tharp at American Ballet Theatre.
BROWSE DANCE LISTINGS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The issue of June 30, 2008.

THE WORLD OF BUSINESS

Connie Bruck: A multibillionaire’s relentless quest for global influence.

ANNALS OF MEDICINE

Atul Gawande: A new theory about brains and bodies.

THE POLITICAL SCENE

Peter J. Boyer: Is Keith Olbermann changing TV news?

A REPORTER AT LARGE

Jon Lee Anderson: The influence of Hugo Chávez.

ONLINE ONLY

Slide Show: Photographs of the changing Beijing sky line, by Iwan Baan.

ONLINE ONLY

Video: Steve Brodner paints the pivotal states in the electoral college.

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: Atul Gawande talks about the science behind itching.

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: A weekly podcast about the Presidential race.

COMMENT

Dorothy Wickenden: Obama remains a puzzle to many voters.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: Gender and politics.

COMMENT

Philip Gourevitch: The intertwined agonies of South Africa and Zimbabwe.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: Hillary’s sad endgame.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Joshua Hersh: The seventeen-year-old basketball wonder Lance Stephenson.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Lauren Collins: A campaign against New York City’s ginkgo tree.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Rebecca Mead: An unlikely ambassador for the Central African Republic.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Ben McGrath: Building robots for Mars exploration.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Corporate marriages rarely end in bliss.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The perils of economic populism.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Toyota’s self-improvement system.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Rules vs. principles.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

MORE FINANCIAL PAGE

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Simon Rich: “Animal Tales.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

George Saunders: “Antiheroes.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Jenny Allen: “Awake.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Jack Handey: “The Symbols on My Flag (And What They Mean).”

FICTION

Alice Munro: “Deep-Holes.”

FICTION

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The Headstrong Historian.”

FICTION

Vladimir Nabokov: “Natasha.”

FICTION

Janet Frame: “A Night at the Opera.”

POETRY

Karl Kirchwey: “Propofol.”

POETRY

Charles Wright: “The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away.”

POETRY

Charles Wright: “Return of the Prodigal.”

POETRY

J. D. McClatchy: “A Frame.”

ARCHIVE

Connie Bruck: Why the senator from Arizona believes he can be the next Republican nominee for President, from 2005.

ARCHIVE

Paul Goldberger: The radical quaintness of the Xintiandi district, from 2005.

ARCHIVE

Jianying Zha: How an unlikely couple became China’s best-known real-estate moguls, from 2005.

ARCHIVE

Connie Bruck: A Profile of Hillary Clinton, from 1994.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Our weekly cultural listings.

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: “Wanted” and “The Happening.”

MOVIES

Richard Brody: Anthony Mann’s audacious frontier noir.

MOVIES

David Denby: “The Incredible Hulk” and “You Don't Mess with the Zohan.”

MOVIES

David Denby: Chaplin’s “Monsieur Verdoux.”

MOVIES

THE FILM FILE

BOOKS

Pankaj Mishra: A novel of hope and cynicism.

BOOKS

James Wood: A first novel about marriage and madness.

BOOKS

John Updike: Ethan Canin’s many-layered novel.

BOOKS

Briefly Noted: “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,” by David Wroblewski.

BOOKS

MORE BOOKS

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Orchestra Baobab’s bewitching mix of styles.

MUSIC

Gary Giddins: The unpredictable Cassandra Wilson.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Laura Marling’s jaded eye.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Auto-Tune corrects a singer’s pitch. It also distorts—a grand tradition in pop.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: A British take on the world’s oldest profession.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: CBS’s “Swingtown.”

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: Katie Couric’s ill-fated voyage with CBS.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: Clinton and Obama debate in the city of brotherly love.

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: The Public Theatre’s “Hamlet.”

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: Lee Hall and Edward Albee on artistic alchemy.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: Conor McPherson on the Irish male.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: A staging of William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury.”

ART

Vince Aletti: The first hundred years of photography.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: Philip Guston becomes more canonical with age.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: A Jeff Koons retrospective.

ART

Andrea K. Scott: A trompe-l’oeil stunt at Tony Shafrazi.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Twyla Tharp at American Ballet Theatre.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Alexei Ratmansky’s steps.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Karole Armitage choreographs string theory.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Looking back at the career of Jerome Robbins.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Beijing’s great new architecture is a mixed blessing for the city.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Beijing’s Olympic architecture.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: What can a designer bring to the world of architecture?

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Can anyone design a nice airport?

TABLES FOR TWO

Ligaya Mishan: Bar Q, in the West Village.

TABLES FOR TWO

Leo Carey: Bar Boulud, on the Upper West Side.

TABLES FOR TWO

Andrea Thompson: Mia Dona, in midtown.

TABLES FOR TWO

Lauren Collins: Café Katja, on the Lower East Side.

TABLES FOR TWO

THE FOOD PAGE
 
06 28, 2008
Dickie Scruggs has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Ryan Lizza and Elizabeth Kolbert on the candidates’ stances on energy and the environment.
BLOGS
Goings On: Jay Rayner eats the world, the Gregorian Chant hit cycle, and more.
The Book Bench: Overcoming book aversion, dubious itching remedies, and more.
George Packer writes from Colombia.
Hendrik Hertzberg is puzzled by the flap over Charlie Black.
Michael Crawford reveals his studio.
Sasha Frere-Jones sends a letter to Kanye.
SEE ALL BLOGS
THE NAKED CAMPAIGN
Video: Steve Brodner paints the pivotal states in the electoral college.
IN THIS ISSUE
View the table of contents.
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’ stances on energy and the environment.
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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