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The Sporting Scene
Who Are the New Jets?by Adam Gopnik
In what is now typical fashion, the team won without looking like winners…
A Critic at Large
Porgy and Bess Reimaginedby Hilton Als
An intelligent and intuitive adaptation rescues a work that was mired in condescension and a bizarre and unreal sexuality…
Dept. of Invention
Survival of the Fittedby David Owen
You can buy bulletproof polo shirts, safari jackets, kurtas, and ecclesiastical vestments…
Editors’ Choice
Annals of Economics
What Good is Wall Street?by John Cassidy
Much of what bankers do is socially worthless.
A Reporter at Large
Coming Apartby George Packer
After 9/11, the country’s problems were left to rot.
Political Scene
Steve Coll and Wendell Steavenson discuss Israel’s deepening isolation in the wake of the Arab Spring.