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THE BOOK BENCH: National Reading “2666” Month
Make Roberto Bolaño’s magnun opus your New Year’s resolution.

OUT LOUD

Doom Boom

with Ben McGrath
A discussion about doomsaying.

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Atul Gawande

Submit a question about health-care reform.

VIDEO

Playing the Changes

Bill Frisell performs with two of his musical idols.
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AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: PORTRAITURE NOW
Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke talk about their portraits of Jack Nicholson, Henry Kissinger, Angelina Jolie, and others.

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THE 2008 NEW YORKER FESTIVAL

Videos of Donna Brazile, Seamus Heaney, and more.

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THE 2008 NEW YORKER CONFERENCE

An archive of videos from “Stories from the Near Future.”

SLIDE SHOW

Deserted: A portfolio of images from Sudanese refugee camps in Chad.

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Sexual Evolution: A portfolio of images from “The Joy of Sex” and “Our Bodies, Ourselves.”

SLIDE SHOW

Faces of Death: Paintings and drawings from Marlene Dumas.

SLIDE SHOW

Secrets of the Bomb: Images and documents behind the first atomic bomb.

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Gates of History: A selection of photos and documents from the family of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Visions of Obama: Visual commentaries on the historic election of Barack Obama.

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Miró Worship: A selection of paintings by Joan Miró.

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Trying Times: A collection of political and financial cartoons from the November 3, 2008, issue.

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What I’ll Miss About George W.: His war on grammar, his accomplices, and more.

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Pictures of People: A selection of work from the artist Elizabeth Peyton.

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Service: A portfolio of photographs of military members and their families.

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Elephants on Parade: A portfolio of Babar illustrations by Jean de Brunhoff.

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Local Heroes: A selection of Kehinde Wiley’s paintings.

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Birds in Flight: A portfolio of Santiago Calatrava’s projects.

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Face Value: A portfolio of Max Factor advertisements, from the nineteen-forties to the sixties.

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Jill Lepore takes readers’ questions about breast-feeding.

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Jeffrey Toobin answers readers' questions about Barney Frank.

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Deborah Treisman answers readers’ questions about fiction.

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Alex Ross answers readers’ questions about Leonard Bernstein.

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Nancy Franklin answers readers’ questions about “30 Rock.”

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Amanda Fortini answers readers’ questions about luxury rehab in Hollywood.

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Calvin Trillin answers readers’ questions about food.

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David Remnick answers readers’ questions about Obama and race.

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John Seabrook answers readers’ questions about psychopaths.

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Bob Mankoff answers readers’ questions about cartoons.

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Jane Mayer answers readers’ questions about Sarah Palin.

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Malcolm Gladwell answers readers’ questions about genius and precocity.

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Lauren Collins answers readers’ questions about Arianna Huffington.

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Raffi Khatchadourian answers readers’ questions about illegal logging.

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John Cassidy answers readers’ questions about Wall Street and the election.

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Philip Gourevitch answers readers’ questions about Sarah Palin.

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Peter J. Boyer answers readers’ questions about Democrats and religion.

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David Denby answers readers’ questions about movies.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Certified Kosher: Patricia Marx discribes kosher-food inspections in China.

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Tea and Wallaby: Photojournalists talk about memorable on-the-job meals.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

A Hanging Hive: Elizabeth Kolbert shows off her back-yard bee colony.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

In Aitarun: Jon Lee Anderson and Samantha Appleton in south Lebanon.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Know When to Fold Them: Susan Orlean on computer-aided origami.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

What Was Left: Robert Polidori in New Orleans.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Beasts and Beauty: Walton Ford on feral hogs and paintings.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Big in Damascus: Lawrence Wright on Syrian filmmakers; photographs by Kate Brooks.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Dear Home Front: Five servicemen share their writings and photographs from Iraq.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The government’s subprime rescue plan.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The great lie of supply-side economics.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: When Wall Street needs bad news.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: What C.E.O.s can learn from Blackbeard.

CLASSICAL NOTES

Alex Ross: Essential recordings by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

CLASSICAL NOTES

Alex Ross: Filling in the new-music map.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Andy Borowitz: Alan Greenspan and O. J. Simpson on writing.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

James Collins: The future of the World Bank.

DEPT. OF SUCCESSION

Ben Ryder Howe: A father-son face-off in Staten Island.

SICHUAN POSTCARD

Peter Hessler: Former students report on the disaster.

SUMMER MOVIES

Jeffrey Eugenides: &#8220At the Drive-In.”

SUMMER MOVIES

A. M. Homes: &#8220Bonnie and Clyde.”

FAMILY DINNER

Cristina Henríquez: In Panama, family dinners happen at lunchtime.

DEPT. OF AMPLIFICATION

Lauren Collins: A polar explorer returns.

NEW ORLEANS JOURNAL

Dan Baum: An archive of daily dispatches from the Crescent City.

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AUDIO

War of Words: Judith Thurman discusses Scrabble, both online and off.

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Joy Revision: Ariel Levy discusses “The Joy of Sex” and its relevance.

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All in the Family: Zadie Smith discusses comedy and her family.

AUDIO

Wendell Steavenson: Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia.

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Voice of the Left: Larissa MacFarquhar discusses Naomi Klein and “The Shock Doctrine.”

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James Wood: V. S. Naipaul’s working process and stormy personal life.

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Strange Brews: Burkard Bilger goes on an extreme-beer taste test.

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George Packer: Obama and the future of liberalism.

AUDIO

John Lanchester: How financial derivatives are like modernist art.

AUDIO

Man and Machine: Bruce McCall discusses his career and his drawing for the Cartoon Issue.

AUDIO

Malcolm Gladwell: How artistic prodigies differ from late bloomers.

AUDIO

Pamela Colloff: The presidency of George Bush and Crawford, Texas.

AUDIO

Raffi Khatchadourian: The global problem of illegal logging.

AUDIO

Home and Away: Platon discusses his photographs of military members and their families.

AUDIO

Adam Gopnik: The controversy behind Babar and the books’ enduring appeal.

FICTION PODCAST

Thomas McGuane: Reading James Salter’s “Last Night.”

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Roddy Doyle: Reading Maeve Brennan’s “Christmas Eve.”

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A. M. Homes: Reading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.”

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Gary Shteyngart: Reading Andrea Lee’s “Brothers and Sisters Around the World.”

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Tobias Wolff: Reading “Dog Heaven,” by Stephanie Vaughn.

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Jeffrey Eugenides: A reading and discussion of “Spring Fugue,” by Harold Brodkey.

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Aleksandar Hemon: Bernard Malamud’s short story “A Summer’s Reading.”

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Mary Gaitskill: Reading Vladimir Nabokov.

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Hilton Als: Reading “Children Are Bored on Sunday,” by Jean Stafford.

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Louise Erdrich: Reading Lorrie Moore.

FICTION PODCAST

Jonathan Lethem: Reading James Thurber.

FICTION PODCAST

T. Coraghessan Boyle: Reading Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain.”

VIDEO

Justin Vernon Express: The man behind Bon Iver talks with Sasha Frere-Jones.

VIDEO

The Bailout Boys: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid run the economy.

VIDEO

Hot Seats: How an illegally logged tree becomes a toilet seat at Wal-Mart.

VIDEO

Not a Game: Inside Virtual Iraq.

VIDEO

Stories from the Near Future: Talks and conversations from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.

VIDEO

Trapped: The ordeal of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours.

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Burning Bright: Scenes from the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve.

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Rough Waters: Environmental pirates in action.

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The 2007 New Yorker Festival: Videos of interviews with Seymour M. Hersh, Steve Martin, and more.

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2012: Stories from the Near Future: Talks and conversations from the 2007 New Yorker Conference.

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“My Trip to Al-Qaeda”: An excerpt from Lawrence Wright’s one-man play.

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Making Them Talk: Jane Mayer analyzes clips from “24.”

PRIMARY SOURCES

100 Essential Jazz Albums: A sampling across jazz’s century-long history.

PRIMARY SOURCES

Abu Ghraib: A clip from Errol Morris’s documentary “Standard Operating Procedure,” and more videos and slide shows.

PRIMARY SOURCES

“Beginners,” Edited: The transformation of a Raymond Carver classic.

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“Away from Her”: Julie Christie in a film based on an Alice Munro story.

PRIMARY SOURCES

“Ball of Fire”: The allure of Barbara Stanwyck.

PRIMARY SOURCES

Urban Jungle: Parkour in action.

Q. & A.

Weights and Measures: Robert Chandler on translating the Russian writer Andrei Platonov.

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Minstrel Show: Paul Theroux on his father, fiction, and reality.

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The Sad Optimist: Maxim Biller on the different voices he uses as a writer and a social critic.

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Living Language: David Hoon Kim on translation and identity.

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Church and State: Frances FitzGerald on how Jerry Falwell shaped American society.

Q. & A.

Do We Ever: Rebecca Mead on the selling of the American wedding.

Q. & A.

Questionnaire: Jonathan Lethem beyond Brooklyn.

Q. & A.

Moments of Illumination: Tatyana Tolstaya on writing and Ravenna.

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David Remnick and Barack Obama: Testing the waters.

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Patricia Marx and Nancy Franklin: The beginning of her.
 
01 20, 2009
The diplomatic questions facing President-elect Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
BLOGS
In the News: Hudson River plane crash.
Roger Angell remembers running into Hortense Calisher.
Sasha Frere-Jones shares a YouTube user’s experience.
Steve Coll dips into the mailbag.
Hendrik Hertzberg thinks dogmatic centrism is a mistake.
George Packer welcomes a President who can explain things.
James Surowiecki says most American companies borrowed responsibly.
The Book Bench: Poetry gets cancelled, a Spanish flip.
Goings On: The funky chocolate box, wincing ballet dancers, Dan Hicks.
The Cartoon Lounge: Panini-press accidents, a lesson on snowflakes, Gordon Ramsay in a Ferrari.
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Doom Boom: Ben McGrath discusses doomsaying and the predictions of economic and social collapse.
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.
The Transition: The diplomatic questions facing President-elect Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
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Playing the Changes: Bill Frisell performs with two of his musical idols.
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.
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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