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THE BALANCE SHEET: Things Not to Worry About, by James Surowiecki
It’ll likely be years before any fortunes are made from toxic assets—long after Congress will have had to decide whether or not to put more money into the banking system…

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Tails of Manhattan

by Woody Allen
Taking revenge on Madoff.

LETTER FROM CHINA

The Importance of One Decent Suit

by Evan Osnos
How to score an interview with an elusive billionaire.

INTERESTING TIMES

Populism and Paranoia

by George Packer
Liberalism can’t afford to be deaf to populism.
ILLUSTRATION: BRAD HOLLAND
ANNALS OF HUMAN RIGHTS: Hellhole, by Atul Gawande
If prolonged isolation is so objectively horrifying, so intrinsically cruel, how did we end up with a prison system that may subject more of our own citizens to it than any other country in history has?…

A CRITIC AT LARGE

Waiting

by Anthony Lane
Samuel Beckett’s life in letters.

THINK TANK

Geithner’s 2.0

by Steve Coll
Return of the zombie banks.
SUROWIECKI ON GEITHNER’S PLAN

ON TELEVISION

Lion King

by Nancy Franklin
Ian McShane rules on NBC.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The issue of March 30, 2009.

ANNALS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Atul Gawande: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?

THE POLITICAL SCENE

Jeffrey Toobin: The rise of Roland Burris.

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS

D. T. Max: How Tony Gilroy surprises jaded moviegoers.

LIFE & LETTERS

D. T. Max: David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass “Infinite Jest.”

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: Evan Osnos talks about how the global economic crisis is affecting China.

ONLINE ONLY

Ask the Author: Submit a question for David Owen about the recession.

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: Will the public outrage over the A.I.G. bonuses doom Timothy Geithner?

ONLINE ONLY

Video: John Lahr talks with Michael Blakemore about Broadway’s “Blithe Spirit.”

COMMENT

David Owen: The ecology of recessions.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: An economical Republican idea.

COMMENT

John Cassidy: Should we be looking for larger solutions?

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: The President and the Governor.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Ben McGrath: A celestial occurrence in a Prospect Heights bathroom.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Shauna Lyon: Eddie Adams’s lost pictures from Vietnam.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Lauren Collins: A medieval crime wave?

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Lauren Collins: A debate over the city’s streetlights.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Europe’s stimulus aversion.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Credit cards in crisis.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Wages, productivity, and the unemployment crisis.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The myth of moral hazards.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Woody Allen: “Tails of Manhattan.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Paul Rudnick: “Confessions of a Pilgrim Shopaholic.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Patricia Marx: “Memo from the C.E.O.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Yoni Brenner: “More Apocryphal Stories of the Presidents.”

FICTION

Craig Raine: “Julia and Byron.”

FICTION

Tessa Hadley: “She’s the One.”

FICTION

David Foster Wallace: “Wiggle Room.”

FICTION

A. M. Homes: “Brother on Sunday.”

POETRY

Mary Jo Bang: “So, So It Begins Means It Begins.”

POETRY

Garret Keizer: “When the Snake Became a Man.”

POETRY

Terese Svoboda: “Mom as Fly.”

POETRY

Carl Phillips: “Civilization.”

ARCHIVE

David Owen: On the fate of the penny, from 2008.

ARCHIVE

David Owen: A golf junket in Morocco, from 2001.

ARCHIVE

David Denby: Leonard Bernstein and “West Side Story,” from 1998.

ARCHIVE

Bernard Taper: Jerome Robbins and “West Side Story,” from 1954.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Our weekly cultural listings.

MOVIES

David Denby: “Duplicity” and “Hunger.”

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: “Thieves’ Highway,” at Film Forum.

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: “Tokyo Sonata” and “The Great Buck Howard.”

MOVIES

David Denby: “The Daytrippers,” at the D.G.A. Theatre.

BOOKS

Anthony Lane: Samuel Beckett’s life in letters.

BOOKS

James Wood: In “Lowboy,” a schizophrenic rides the subway.

BOOKS

Joan Acocella: Why do vampires still thrill?

BOOKS

Briefly Noted: “The American 1930s,” by Peter Conn.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Flashing Lights, at Studio B.

MUSIC

Colin Fleming: New Louis Armstrong collections.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Pop-music economics.

MUSIC

Alex Ross: The reopening of Alice Tully Hall.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: Ian McShane rules on NBC.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: A down-and-dirty comedy on HBO.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: A new show from the creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: Cable news captures the noise of the nation at the Inauguration.

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: “West Side Story” and “God of Carnage” on Broadway.

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: Moisés Kaufman and Noël Coward summon up the past.

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: “That Pretty Pretty; or, the Rape Play,” at the Rattlestick.

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: A new take on Ibsen’s masterpiece.

ART

Andrea K. Scott: A new gallery, X, opens in Chelsea.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: Ellsworth Kelly, at the Matthew Marks gallery.

ART

Vince Aletti: Walker Evans, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: Pierre Bonnard, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Puppets in New York.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Suki Schorer, with the Guggenheim’s “Works & Process” series.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Ballet dancers flirt.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Alvin Ailey Day.”

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: How Palladian was Palladio?

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: New stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Daniel Burnham’s great Chicago Plan turns one hundred.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: The new Alice Tully Hall bodes well for other Lincoln Center renovations.

TABLES FOR TWO

Lauren Collins: Corton, in Tribeca.

TABLES FOR TWO

Andrea Thompson: Buttermilk Channel, in Brooklyn.

TABLES FOR TWO

Mike Peed: 10 Downing Food & Wine, in the Village.

TABLES FOR TWO

Shauna Lyon: L’Artusi, in Greenwich Village.
 
03 26, 2009
Evan Osnos talks about how the global economic crisis is affecting China.
The Book Club
Read “Revolutionary Road” with The New Yorker.
BLOGS
George Packer discovers George Orwell was a loving father.
Evan Osnos recounts how he got access to wastepaper billionaire Cheung Yan.
Steve Coll thinks the Treasury’s plan does what’s politically possible, not what’s necessary.
James Surowiecki challenges Joseph Stiglitz’s distortions of the Geithner plan.
Hendrik Hertzberg applauds another Bill O’Reilly target.
The Front Row discusses a clip of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “Gertrud.”
News Desk: The only known survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Sasha Frere-Jones hosts a roundtable about Haitian music.
The Book Bench: Caitlin Macy discusses her new book, what if Samuel Beckett used Twitter?
The Cartoon Lounge: North by Northeast, reports of nose skirts from SXSW.
Goings On: Happy Prince day, the New York Dolls’ “Cause I Sez So,” second-generation rock drummers.
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Trash Talk: Evan Osnos discusses how the global economic crisis is affecting China.
Show Trial: Keith Gessen on the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya.
Fatal Attraction: Joan Acocella on the enduring appeal of vampires.
Editing Updike: Roger Angell reads John Updike’s “Playing with Dynamite.”
The Political Scene: Will the public outrage over the A.I.G. bonuses doom Timothy Geithner?
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Mumbai: Scenes from the Slums: A diary from the children of Gautam Nagar.
Love Scenes: Richard Brody, David Denby, and David Remnick talk about their favorite movie moments.
Welcome to Florida: George Packer on Florida’s real-estate woes.
The New Yorker Festival: Selected videos from the 2008 New Yorker Speakeasy.
Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
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Modest and Tender: Ariel Levy discusses the designer Alber Elbaz.
Hard To Fill: A look into the world of David Foster Wallace.
The Streets of Srinagar: Steve Coll discusses recent tensions in Kashmir.
Popaganda: A selection of Shepard Fairey’s work, both on and off the street.

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