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THE NEW YORKER. 2009 - NOVEMBER 9TH.
Featuring the Stephen King Castle Rock story PREMIUM HARMONY.
THIS ISSUES FEATURES:
Biggus Buckus
The imperial Bloomberg.
by Hendrik Hertzberg
Out to Lunch
The perils of distraction.
by Nick Paumgarten
Martha Slept Here
The Hamptons guide to the stars.
by Sheelah Kolhatkar
Cleaned Out
A poet loses her life savings to Bernie Madoff.
by Rebecca Mead
Priced to Go
The Amazon—Wal-Mart price war.
by James Surowiecki
Talk This Way
Where actors find their accents.
by Alec Wilkinson
Live Your Life
by Dave Cowen
The Scavenger
L.A.’s guru of the authentic.
by Dana Goodyear
Captives
An investigation of the Israeli attacks.
by Lawrence Wright
Audio: The violent conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Possessed
Ayn Rand and the people who loved her.
by Thomas Mallon
“Premium Harmony”
by Stephen King
Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals.”
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Briefly Noted:“In the Falling Snow”; “Hell”; “The Locust and the Bird”; “Too Big to Fail.”
America’s homicidal history.
by Jill Lepore
Meredith Monk at BAM.
by Alex Ross
“The Men Who Stare at Goats,” “Precious.”
“November Philosophers”
by Katie Ford
“Southeast of Eden”
by Glyn Maxwell
Ron Vawter, in the Wooster Group’s DVD “Brace Up!”
by Hilton Als
Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Il Grido,” at BAM.
by Anthony Lane
“Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection,” at the Frick.
by Peter Schjeldahl
“Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife” and “Summer Storm.”
by Richard Brody
Saraghina
by Lila Byock
The Theatre
Night Life
Art
Dance
Classical Music
Movies
Readings and Talks
Above and Beyond
Presvytera Elizabeth Tervo; Nina Planck; Robert Stanton; Shaun Coen
“Autumn in Central Park”
Eric Drooker
David Sipress, Harry Bliss, Paul Noth, Farley Katz, Julia Suits, Tom Cheney, Roz Chast, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Danny Shanahan, Charles Barsotti, P. C. Vey, Gahan Wilson, William Haefeli
Benoît van Innis