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Egypt’s Crisisby Wendell Steavenson

Dispatches from The New Yorker’s reporter in Cairo.

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THE SPORTING SCENE

Those Non-Profit Packersby Dave Zirin

This season, it’s poetic justice to see Green Bay, the team without an owner, make the Super Bowl…

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PROFILES

Show the Monsterby Daniel Zalewski

Guillermo del Toro’s quest to get amazing creatures onscreen.

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ON AND OFF MADISON AVE.

Is He the Guy?by Nick Paumgarten

Jonathan Goldsmith plays the Most Interesting Man in those TV ads for Dos Equis beer. He is interesting, too.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

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ILLUSTRATION: DAVID HUGHES

BOOKS

A Dog’s Lifeby Joan Acocella

Even in J. R. Ackerley’s England, a romantic passion for a dog would have been regarded as bizarre…

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Daniel Zalewski on Guillermo del Toro.
Jerome Groopman on food allergies.
John Seabrook on crowd dynamics.
Sasha Frere-Jones on PJ Harvey.
Francisco Goldman on a tragedy in Mexico.
Joan Acocella on J. R. Ackerley and his dog.

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Christian Als on youth in Algeria.

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What happens to Gamal Mubarak?

Medical Report

A solution for health care’s costliest cases.

ON AND OFF THE AVENUE

The rage for renting.

COMMENT

ILLUSTRATION: TOM BACHTELL

Behind Obama’s clean-energy strategy.

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Hendrik Hertzberg and Ryan Lizza on Obama’s positioning for 2012.

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MULTIMEDIA

Francisco Goldman on the death of his wife.

Daniel Zalewski on Guillermo del Toro’s most notable creatures.

Wendell B. Harris, Jr.,’s “Chameleon Street.”

John Seabrook on why stampedes occur.

Ben McGrath on head and neck injuries in the N.F.L.

Peter Schjeldahl on “Painters & Poets,” at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

Rare manuscripts from the Vatican Library.

Jason Schwartzman introduces The New Yorker’s iPad App.

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