Contenido: NEW YORKER, May 17, 2010
10 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
35 THE TALK OF THE TOWN,
George Packer on Obama and Human Rights;
James Surowiecki on innovative finance
David Owen 42 ANNALS OF DESIGN
The Inventor’s Dilemma
The limits of eco-technologies
Ian Frazier 52 SHOUTS AND MURMURS
Remembering Justice Stevens
Julia Ioffe 54 LETTER FROM MOSCOW
Roullete Russian
The teen behind Chatroulette
Alex Ross 60 ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
The Spooky Fill
The power of music in “Lost”
Malcolm Gladwell 68 ANNALS OF INNOVATION
The Treatment
The difficulties of making a cancer drug
Ian Parker 78 PROFILES
The poverty Lab.
A new method for development economics.
Nathan Englander 90 FICTION
“Free Fruit for Young Widows”
THE CRITICS
Claudia Roth Pierpont 96 A CRITIC AT LARGE
Duke Ellington’s dignity
BOOKS
James Wood 104 Perspectives on Tocqueville
Dan Chiasson 110 Who is Rae Armantrout?
113 Brieftly Noted
Paul Goldeberger 114 the sky line
Goldman Sachs’s new headquarters
Peter Schjeldahl 116 THE ART WORLD
Leon Golub’s late drawings
Sasha Frere- Jones 118 POP MUSIC
Tracery Thorn’s midlife album
David Denby 120 THE CURRENT CINEMA
“The Oath”, Babies”
POEMS
Susan Wheeler 46 “The Scar”
Kathleen Graber 86 “The Drinkenness of Noah”
Sophie Cabot Black 98 “Private Equuity”
Contenido: NEW YORKER, May 24, 2010
10 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
35 THE TALK OF THE TOWN,
George Packer on Obama and the Court;
James Surowiecki on “political risk”
Rebecca Mead 26 THE WAYWARD PRESS
Rage Machine
Andrew Breitbart’s online offensive
Simon Rich 33 SHOUTS AND MURMURS
Your New College Graduatte: A Parent’s Guide
Alec Wilkinson 34 ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
Immigration Blues
The Songs od Los Tigres del Norte
Stevve Coll 42 LETTER FROM AFGHANISTAN
War by Other Means
Can the Taliban be won over?
Evan Osnos 54 PROFILES
It´s Not Beautifull
China’s most outspoken artist
Roddy Doyle 64 FICTION
“Ash”
THE CRITICS
Nancy Franklin 68 ON TELEVISION
Chelsea Handler’s comedy
71 BOOKS
Brieftly Noted
Adam Gopnik 72 A CRITIC AT LARGE
What was Jesus like?
Joan Acocella 78 DANCING
A Judson Dance Theatre Revival
Sasha Frere- Jones 80 POP MUSIC
The Nature of noise
Anthony Lane 82 THE CURRENT CINEMA
“Robin Hood”
POEMS
Gary Whitehead 39 “A Glossary od Chickens”
C.K. Williams 48 “Exhaust”
Contenido: NEW YORKER, May 31, 2010
10 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
35 THE TALK OF THE TOWN,
Elizabeth Kilbert on oil-spill politics;
Gino’s farewell; a paparazzo’s scalps
Jerome Groopman 26 MEDICAL DISPATCH
The Plastic Panic
Which everyday chemicals are dangerous?
Paul Rudnick 32 SHOUTS AND MURMURS
Hi from Heidi
Patricia Marx 34 ON AND OFF THE AVENUE
Graduation Graft
Giftd for the cap-and-grown crowd
William Finnegan 38 LETTER FROM MEXICO
Silver or Lead
A drug carte’s reign of terror
Peter J. Boyer 52 THE SPORTING SCENE
Changing Lanes
Danica Patrick’s bold gamble
Jonathan Franzen 62 FICTION
“Agreeable”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Ruth Franklin 70 The life and work of Somerset Maugham
Isaac Chotiner 76 Robert McCrum’s “Globish”
79 Briefly Noted
John Lahr 80 THE THEATRE
“The Metal Chiledre”, “This Wide Night”
David Denby 82 THE CURRENT CINEMA
“Prince of Persia”, “John Rabe”
POEMS
David Huddle 48 “Roamoke Pastorale”
Bob Hicok 73 “A night Out”
Contenido: NEW YORKER, June 7, 2010
10 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
35 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Rebecca Mead on college degrees;
Facebook candidate; Brodway cops.
John Lanchester 26 LETTER FROM LONDON
Party Games
How the General election was won
Larry Doyle 32 SHOUTS AND MURMURS
“Hot Wings”
Connie Bruck 34 THE POLITICA SCENE
Right Fight
California’s Republican Senate primary
Raffi Khatchadourian 40 A REPORTER AT LARGE
No Secrets
WikiLeaks goes for total transparency.
Hampton Sides 52 THE SPORTING SCENE
National Defense
The United States’ World Cup hope
Jeffrey Eugenides 60 FICTION
“Extreme Solitude”
THE CRITICS
Pankaj Mishra 68 A CRITIC AT LARGE
Western intellectuals and Muslim Scholars
BOOKS
Peter Schjeldahl 74 Annie Cohen- Solal’s life of Leo Castelli
79 Briefly Noted
Alex Ross 80 MUSICAL EVENTS
The Emerson Quartet plays Dvorak
Joan Acocella 82 DANCING
Cirque du Soleos’s “Banana Shpeel”
Anthony Lane 82 THE CURRENT CINEMA
“The Father of my Chiledren”, “Solitary Man”
POEMS
Carl Dennis 36 “A Maxim”
Jennifer L. Knox 46 “Pimp my Ride”