Editors’ Choice

ILLUSTRATION: JOOST SWARTE
Annals of Economics

What Good is Wall Street?by John Cassidy

Much of what bankers do is socially worthless.
ILLUSTRATION: GUY BILLOUT
A Reporter at Large

Coming Apartby George Packer

After 9/11, the country’s problems were left to rot.
ILLUSTRATION: BARRY BLITT
Books

Novelty Actsby Ariel Levy

The sexual revolutions before the sexual revolution.
PHOTOGRAPH: HANS GISSINGER
Annals of Gastronomy

Grubby Dana Goodyear

Eating bugs to save the planet.
PHOTOGRAPH: KEN LIGHT
A Reporter at Large

Trial By Fireby David Grann

Did Texas execute an innocent man?

COMMENT

ILLUSTRATION: TOM BACHTELL

Membership Duesby Steve Coll

The looming vote on Palestine at the U.N.

Political Scene

Steve Coll and Wendell Steavenson discuss Israel’s deepening isolation in the wake of the Arab Spring.

MULTIMEDIA

Audio

Jenny Diski on shoplifting.

Audio Slide Show

The de Kooning retrospective at MOMA.

DVD of the Week

Frederick Wiseman’s “Welfare.”

Video

Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin.

Video

Portraits from Tahrir Square.

Video

Super Sam Fuld in action.

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Scenes from a Talk meeting.

Video

Jason Schwartzman introduces The New Yorkers iPad App.
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