January 19, 2009

January 2009

JANUARY 19, 2009
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COMMENT
Transitioning
Presidents, coming and going.
Hendrik Hertzberg
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Cuz
A Kennedy cousin comes to town.
by Lauren Collins

Hack Attack
Liberal blogs get sabotaged.
by Jeffrey Toobin

Slowdown
The anti-energy drank.
by Ben McGrath

Mr. Subway
John Tauranac’s new map.
by Alec Wilkinson
ANNALS OF GAMES
Spreading the Word
Scrabble mania’s online resurgence.
by Judith Thurman

Audio: Judith Thurman discusses Scrabble, both online and off.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
My Holocaust Memoir
by Ben Greenman
MATERNITY DEPT.
Baby Food
Are breast pumps edging out nursing?
by Jill Lepore

Ask the Author: Jill Lepore takes readers’ questions about breast-feeding.
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA
The Cobra
Inside a movie-marketing playbook.
by Tad Friend
PORTFOLIO
A Couple in Chicago
At home with the Obamas, in 1996.
by Mariana Cook
A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Enforcer
Bringing justice to the world’s poor.
by Samantha Power
FICTION
“Soldier’s Joy”
by Antonya Nelson

Audio: Thomas McGuane reads James Salter’s “Last Night.”
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Steven Soderbergh’s “Che.”
by Anthony Lane
BOOKS
Briefly Noted: “The Art Instinct”; “History’s Greatest Heist”; “Land of Marvels”; “Disquiet.”

The Ludlow massacre reëxamined.
by Caleb Crain
ON TELEVISION
“United States of Tara,” “The Beast.”
by Nancy Franklin
POEMS
“Eh?”
by Nathalie Anderson

“Learning to Read”
by Franz Wright
“Young Mr. Lincoln,” at MOMA.
by Anthony Lane

Vik Muniz, at MOMA.
by Andrea K. Scott
CLASSICAL NOTES
Joseph Haydn, Keeril Makan, and more.
by Russell Platt
TABLES FOR TWO
Flex Mussels
by Mike Peed
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The Theatre
Night Life
Art
Dance
Classical Music
Movies
Readings and Talks
Above and Beyond
On the Horizon
THE MAIL
Philip Kay; Gray George; Steve Seidel; Karen Benker
“To the White House”
Guy Billout
DRAWINGS
Drew Dernavich, Erik Hilgerdt, Zachary Kanin, P. C. Vey, Gahan Wilson, Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Danny Shanahan, Matthew Diffee, William Haefeli, Frank Cotham, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ariel Molvig, Alex Gregory, Leo Cullum
SPOTS
Anders Wenngren
01 12, 2009
A discussion on Obama’s economic and counter-terrorism plans.
BLOGS
George Packer hopes Obama will help resettle 40,000 Iraqi refugees.
Steve Coll considers a carbon tax.
James Surowiecki says most American companies borrowed responsibly.
Sasha Frere-Jones can’t get enough of the Buddha Machine.
Hendrik Hertzberg sees Chicago’s chance to redeem itself.
The Book Bench: Upton Sinclair mojitos, Bolaño’s title, taxidermy and photography.
Goings On: Oscar advice, Rothkos, quality time with Prince.
The Cartoon Lounge: Psychic New Year’s, digging up a time capsule, no Inauguration in 2009.
Ask the Author: Alex Ross answers readers’ questions about Leonard Bernstein.
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AUDIO
War of Words: A discussion about Scrabble, both online and off.
The Living Dead: A reading of James Salter’s “Last Night.”
Face Time: Staff photographers Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss their work.
Joy Revision: Ariel Levy discusses the relevance of “The Joy of Sex.”
The Transition: A discussion on Obama’s economic and counter-terrorism plans.
MORE PODCASTS
VIDEO
Justin Vernon Express: An interview with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.
Hot Seats: How an illegally logged tree becomes a toilet seat at Wal-Mart.
Not a Game: Scenarios from Virtual Iraq, with commentary by Sue Halpern.
Trapped: The ordeal of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for forty-one hours.
Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
SLIDE SHOWS
Deserted: A portfolio of images from Sudanese refugee camps in Chad.
Sexual Evolution: A portfolio of images from “The Joy of Sex” and “Our Bodies, Ourselves.”
The Face of Death: Paintings and drawings from the Marlene Dumas retrospective at MOMA.
Secrets of the Bomb: Images and documents that tell the story behind the first atomic bomb.

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