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What Do They Want?with Hendrik Hertzberg

Hertzberg answers readers’ questions about Occupy Wall Street.

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Cairo on Fireby Wendell Steavenson

There have been seven church burnings over the past six months, but last night’s violence was a new level of hostility between Egyptian Muslims and Copts…

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ILLUSTRATION: LUIS GRAÑENA

Profiles

Pixar Goes To Marsby Tad Friend

Andrew Stanton, the director of “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E,” takes on live-action.

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The Current Cinema

Creep Showsby David Denby

Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Skin I Live In” is a textbook of expository technique, but it’s all craft and shine…

Richard Brody on “Margaret”

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Plus: Al Davis wins.

THE BOOK BENCH

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Plus: David Foster Wallace = Eminem?

Evan Osnos on Japan’s nuclear aftermath.
Michael Specter on drug decriminalization.
Adam Gopnik on “The Phantom Tollbooth.”
Tad Friend on Pixar’s Andrew Stanton.
Adam Kirsch on H. G. Wells.
Peter Schjeldahl on Degas.

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Steve Powers’s love letter to Brooklyn.

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Treasure hunting with Odyssey Marine Exploration.

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The Wayward Press

Bill O’Reilly’s baroque period.

L.A. Postcard

Women in the movies.

Annals of Medicine

Should you have a coach too?

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A Reporter at Large

What money buys in North Carolina politics.

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Will Occupy Wall Street succeed?

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Nicholas Lemann, Jill Lepore, and Hendrik Hertzberg assess Occupy Wall Street.

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Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” on DVD.

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Michael Specter on an alternative to the war on drugs.

Peter Schjeldahl on Degas.

Terence Davies’s “The House of Mirth.”

Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin.

Portraits from Tahrir Square.

Super Sam Fuld in action.

Scenes from a Talk meeting.

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