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FICTION: In the South, by Salman Rushdie
Love had begun to annoy him, like everything else. His was a family of mosquitoes, he thought, a buzzing swarm, and love was their itchy bite…
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DEPT. OF SCIENCE

Don’t!

by Jonah Lehrer
The secret of self-control.
ASK THE AUTHOR

LETTER FROM CHINA

Curtain Raiser

by Evan Osnos
A forgotten interview with Obama.

COMMENT

College Try

by Hendrik Hertzberg
The President’s campus tour.
HERTZBERG’S BLOG
THE NEXT 100 DAYS: Malcolm Gladwell
How overconfidence led to the current economic crisis. From the 2009 New Yorker Summit.
READ GLADWELL ON UNDERDOGS

SLIDE SHOW

Avedon Fashion

A selection of photographs by Richard Avedon.

DEPT. OF AMPLIFICATION

The Opposite of Two Buck Chuck

by Dana Goodyear
The kind of wine fought over in a divorce.

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Highly Illogical

by Anthony Lane
J. J. Abrams’s “Star Trek.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The issue of May 18, 2009.

ANNALS OF SCIENCE

Jonah Lehrer: The secret of self-control.

ANNALS OF INNOVATION

Malcolm Gladwell: When underdogs break the rules.

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

Ryan Lizza: Can Peter Orszag keep the President’s political goals economically viable?

A REPORTER AT LARGE

Margaret Talbot: The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs.

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: Elizabeth Kolbert and Ryan Lizza discuss the latest political developments in climate change.

ONLINE ONLY

Ask the Author: Submit a question for Jonah Lehrer about the science of self-control.

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: Nick Paumgarten on struggling to understand the financial crisis.

ONLINE ONLY

Slide Show: A selection of fashion photographs by Richard Avedon.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: The President’s campus tour.

COMMENT

Philip Gourevitch: How to account for the past.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: If at first you don’t secede.

COMMENT

Elizabeth Kolbert: Earth Day isn’t what it used to be.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Ben McGrath: A vigilante’s quest against idling vehicles.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

John Seabrook: Rock stars immortalize Manny’s Music.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

David Owen: An environmental eye-opening for aspiring welders.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Julia Ioffe: Graduate studies in the apocalypse.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: How banks got big.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: How should companies behave in recessions?

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The aims of the Geithner plan.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Europe’s stimulus aversion.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Amy Ozols: “Making Friends.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Noah Baumbach: “Buzzed.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Paul Rudnick: “Amen, Brother.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Larry Doyle: “Fun Times!”

FICTION

Salman Rushdie: “In the South.”

FICTION

J. G. Ballard: “The Autobiography of J.G.B.”

FICTION

Gail Hareven: “The Slows.”

FICTION

Guillermo Martínez: “Vast Hell.”

POETRY

Dean Young: “Delphiniums in a Window Box.”

POETRY

Philip Schultz: “Bleecker Street.”

POETRY

Ian Frazier: “Lines on the Poet’s Turning Forty.”

POETRY

Richard Wilbur: “Galveston, 1961.”

ARCHIVE

Salman Rushdie: “The Shelter of the World,” from 2008.

ARCHIVE

Salman Rushdie: Indian literature, from 1997.

ARCHIVE

Patrick Radden Keefe: How could one collector find so much rare fine wine?, from 2007.

ARCHIVE

Adam Gopnik: What do we talk about when we talk about wine?, from 2004.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Our weekly cultural listings.

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: J. J. Abrams’s “Star Trek.”

MOVIES

David Denby: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” “Fighting,” “Tyson.”

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: “The Late Film,” at BAM.

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: “Il Divo” and “The Limits of Control.”

BOOKS

Judith Thurman: The birth of the Cosmo Girl.

BOOKS

Peter Conrad: A Portuguese novelist dissects his country.

BOOKS

Jill Lepore: Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror.

BOOKS

Briefly Noted: “The Song Is You,” by Arthur Phillips.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: St. Vincent, at Webster Hall.

MUSIC

Ben Greenman: The New York Dolls’ “’Cause I Sez So.”

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Grizzly Bear’s songs make themselves giddy.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Mastodon, at the Fillmore New York.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: Amy Poehler gets her own sitcom.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: Ian McShane rules on NBC.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: A down-and-dirty comedy on HBO.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: A new show from the creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

THE THEATRE

John Lahr: “Waiting for Godot” back on Broadway.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: Eugene O’Neill on love triangles.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: “Merchant of Venice,” at BAM.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern’s “Every Little Step.”

ART

Andrea K. Scott: “Compass in Hand,” at MOMA.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: “Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: The Gagosian gallery’s “Picasso: Mosqueteros.”

ART

Vince Aletti: “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West,” at MOMA.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Mark Morris’s “Romeo and Juliet,” at the Rose Theatre.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Works by Merce Cunningham and Karole Armitage.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: “Clytemnestra,” at the Skirball Center.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Puppets in New York.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: How Palladian was Palladio?

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: New stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Daniel Burnham’s great Chicago Plan turns one hundred.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: The new Alice Tully Hall bodes well for other Lincoln Center renovations.

TABLES FOR TWO

Leo Carey: Delicatessen, in Soho.

TABLES FOR TWO

Andrea Thompson: Shang, on the Lower East Side.

TABLES FOR TWO

Lauren Collins: Vinegar Hill House, in Brooklyn.

TABLES FOR TWO

Mike Peed: Schnipper’s Quality Kitchen, in Midtown.
 
05 12, 2009
Elizabeth Kolbert, Ryan Lizza, and Dorothy Wickenden discuss the latest political developments in climate change.
BLOGS
Evan Osnos recalls reporting on Obama’s first run for Congress.
Steve Coll talks with Britain’s Foreign Secretary.
George Packer questions Obama’s choice of General Stanley McChrystal.
Hendrik Hertzberg castigates the Georgia state senate.
James Surowiecki casts doubt on the zombie-bank theory.
Sasha Frere-Jones talks shop with St. Vincent’s Annie Clark.
News Desk: Video of Malcolm Gladwell, the opposite of Two Buck Chuck.
The Book Bench: Derek Walcott, “Star Trek.”
The Front Row: Why film’s backstory device is democratizing.
The Cartoon Lounge: This Week on “24.”
Goings On: Spinal Tap’s new film, the “white J-Z.”
SEE ALL BLOG POSTS
The Book Club
Read “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi” with The New Yorker.
IN THIS ISSUE
View the table of contents.
Covers
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AUDIO
Accounting for the Meltdown: Nick Paumgarten on struggling to understand the financial crisis.
Remembering J. G. Ballard: Tom Shone discusses Ballard’s novels and the films they inspired.
Rwanda in Recovery: How a country of murderers and survivors manage to live together.
The Political Scene: Elizabeth Kolbert and Ryan Lizza discuss the latest political developments in climate change.
Knife in the Eye: Tobias Wolff reads Denis Johnson’s “Emergency.”
MORE PODCASTS
VIDEO
Behind the Scenes: Jia Zhangke: Evan Osnos discusses the work of Jia Zhangke.
Conversations with John Lahr: A discussion with the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theatre.
The Long Way Up: Alain Robert climbs the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong.
Katt Williams: Kelefa Sanneh analyzes the work of Katt Williams.
The New Yorker Festival: Selected videos from the 2008 New Yorker Speakeasy.
Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
SLIDE SHOWS
Avedon Fashion: A selection of photographs by Richard Avedon.
The Place of In-Between: A series of drawings by Francesco Clemente.
The Pictures Generation: A discussion about the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition.
The Parthenon of Elkhead: Dorothy Wickenden discusses her grandmother, a schoolteacher in the Rocky Mountains.
Ben Greenman’s “Step Back” tour, and more events involving New Yorker contributors.

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