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Sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya.
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Shallow Graves

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Going Gaga

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Good Vibrations

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The issue of November 30, 2009.

MEDICAL DISPATCH

Jill Lepore: From abortion to health care—how the hysterical style overtook the national debate.

OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS

John Colapinto: Undercover with a Michelin inspector.

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Seymour M. Hersh: In an unstable Pakistan, can a nuclear hoard be kept safe?

LETTER FROM GAZA

Lawrence Wright: What really happened during the Israeli attacks?

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Audio: Ariel Levy on world-champion runner Caster Semenya and the role of gender in sports.

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Ask the Author: Join a live chat with Ariel Levy about sports and gender this week.

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DVD of the Week: “Two Lovers.”

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: Evan Osnos on Obama’s visit to China, and John Cassidy on the economy.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama’s Afghanistan dilemma.

COMMENT

Jeffrey Toobin: Abortion enters the health-care battle.

COMMENT

George Packer: Lessons from a revolution.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: The imperial Bloomberg.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Jeffrey Toobin: Who will judge Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Bruce McCall: Expect delays.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Ben Greenman: Mr. Skin refines his business with Blu-ray.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Dana Goodyear: Lady Gaga wears Frank Gehry.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: How the tax code makes debtors of us all.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Amazon vs. Wal-Mart.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Success feeds on itself.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: How climate change is shaking up business lobbying.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Mike Sacks: “My Parents, Enid and Sal, Used to Be Porn Stars.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Dave Cowen: “Live Your Life.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Ian Frazier: “Fanshawe.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Ellis Weiner: “Subject: Our Marketing Plan.”

FICTION

Don DeLillo: “Midnight in Dostoevsky.”

FICTION

Sam Shepard: “Indianapolis (Highway 74).”

FICTION

Yiyun Li: “Alone.”

FICTION

Stephen King: “Premium Harmony.”

POETRY

Philip Schultz: “The Big Sleep.”

POETRY

Sarah Arvio: “Wood.”

POETRY

James Longenbach: “Exercise.”

POETRY

Liz Waldner: “Sad Verso of the Sunny ____.”

ARCHIVE

Ariel Levy: Why is feminism still so divisive?, from 2009.

ARCHIVE

Ariel Levy: When gay women took to the road, from 2009.

ARCHIVE

Claudia Roth Pierpont: How the rivalry of Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier made Shakespeare modern, from 2007.

ARCHIVE

Russell Maloney: A profile of Orson Welles, from 1938.

MOVIES

David Denby: “Me and Orson Welles” and “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.”

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: “Broken Embraces” and “2012.”

MOVIES

Richard Brody: Kent Mackenzie’s “The Exiles.”

MOVIES

David Denby: “The Messenger” and “The Box.”

BOOKS

James Wood: Paul Auster’s fiction.

BOOKS

Adam Gopnik: Our hunger for cookbooks.

BOOKS

Elizabeth Kolbert: Is there a quick fix for the climate?

BOOKS

Briefly Noted: “Enemies of the People,” by Kati Marton.

MUSIC

Ben Greenman: David Johansen, at the Highline Ballroom.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Metallica, at Madison Square Garden.

MUSIC

Alex Ross: Suzanne Fiol’s legacy.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Buraka Som Sistema, at (Le) Poisson Rouge.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: Fox News Channel’s latest blowhard.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: CBS’s new drama, “The Good Wife.”

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: A strikeout in NBC’s primetime line-up.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: HBO’s new comedy about a writer turned private eye.

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: Sarah Ruhl and “Finian’s Rainbow” score.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: Richard Foreman puts language onstage.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: Ron Vawter, in the Wooster Group’s DVD “Brace Up!”

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: Patrick Marber updates Strindberg.

ART

Vince Aletti: Bruce Davidson, at Bryce Wolkowitz and Howard Greenberg.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: “1969” at P.S.1.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: The making of a modern aesthetic.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: “Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection,” at the Frick.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Mime in Balanchine’s “Nutcracker.”

DANCE

Joan Acocella: The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre’s “Twelfth Night,” at La Mama.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Lucinda Childs’s “Dance,” at the Joyce.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: “Fall for Dance” honors the Ballets Russes.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Fifty years of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: How Palladian was Palladio?

THE SKY LINE

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

ON AND OFF THE AVENUE

Patricia Marx: French fragrance, on the Upper East Side.

TABLES FOR TWO

Lauren Collins: Aureole, in Midtown.

TABLES FOR TWO

Andrea Thompson: Quinto Quarto, in Greenwich Village.

TABLES FOR TWO

Leo Carey: Prime Meats, in Brooklyn.

TABLES FOR TWO

Lila Byock: Saraghina, in Brooklyn.
 
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