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FROM THE ARCHIVES

I Cover Carter

by George W. S. Trow
From 1977, a reporter’s notebook.
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THE POLITICAL SCENE

Party Faithful

by Peter J. Boyer
Can the Democrats get a foothold on the religious vote?
Ask the Author

THE CURRENT CINEMA

View to A Kill

by Anthony Lane
“Bangkok Dangerous” and “Mister Foe.”
The Film File
PHOTOGRAPH: FRANCO PAGETTI/VII
A REPORTER AT LARGE: The General’s Dilemma, by Steve Coll
David Petraeus, the politicians, and the road out of Iraq.
AUDIO: “The Face of the Surge”
Coll’s new Blog, Think Tank

MUSICAL EVENTS

Why So Serious?

by Alex Ross
How the classical concert took shape.

BOOKS

Imperishable Maxwell

by John Updike
The Library of America celebrates the novelist’s centennial.

BLOG

The Cartoon Lounge

A guided tour inside the brains of New Yorker cartoonists.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The issue of September 8, 2008.

THE POLITICAL SCENE

Peter J. Boyer: Can the Democrats get a foothold on the religious vote?

A REPORTER AT LARGE

Steve Coll: David Petraeus, the pressures of politics, and the road out of Iraq.

LETTER FROM BEIJING

Anthony Lane: Week Two at the Olympics.

THE POLITICAL SCENE

Ryan Lizza: What Barack Obama can learn from Bill Ritter.

ONLINE ONLY

Ask the Author: Peter J. Boyer.

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: Steve Coll discusses General Petraeus’s duties in Iraq and his role in information operations.

ONLINE ONLY

Audio: David Remnick, Ryan Lizza, and Dorothy Wickenden on the Democratic Convention.

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Slide Show: Photographs of performers by Richard Avedon.

COMMENT

David Remnick: Obama’s big night.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: What Barack Obama is up against.

COMMENT

David Remnick: What Putin is doing in Georgia.

COMMENT

Elizabeth Kolbert: McCain and the hard truth.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Hendrik Hertzberg: Clinton catharsis.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

George Packer: The troops in Denver.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Ryan Lizza: Inside the McCain war room.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Philip Gourevitch: The Democrats’ Alaskan prospects.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Too many stakeholders can be a deal-breaker.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The real problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The blame game and the price of oil.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

MORE FINANCIAL PAGE

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Amy Ozols: “A Mass E-Mail.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

John Kenney: “Up Next.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Bruce McCall: “Pollster Reports Nightmare.”

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Simon Rich: “Play Nice.”

FICTION

Alice Munro: “Face.”

FICTION

Janet Frame: “Gorse Is Not People.”

FICTION

Tobias Wolff: “Awake.”

FICTION

Joshua Ferris: “The Dinner Party.”

POETRY

Yusef Komunyakaa: “The Clay Army.”

POETRY

Mary Jo Bang: “Beast Brutality.”

POETRY

Michael Dickman: “We Did Not Make Ourselves.”

POETRY

Jeffrey Skinner: “Reunion.”

ARCHIVE

Steve Coll: “Military Conflict,” from 2008.

ARCHIVE

Ryan Lizza: Can John McCain reinvent Republicanism?, from 2008.

ARCHIVE

William Finnegan: “G.O.P. City,” from 2004.

ARCHIVE

Jeffrey Toobin: “Jitters,” from 2004.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Our weekly cultural listings.

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: “Bangkok Dangerous” and “Mister Foe.”

MOVIES

Richard Brody: Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “Day of Wrath.”

MOVIES

David Denby: “I Served the King of England” and “Traitor.”

MOVIES

Anthony Lane: “Tropic Thunder” and “A Girl Cut in Two.”

MOVIES

THE FILM FILE

BOOKS

John Updike: The Library of America celebrates William Maxwell’s centennial.

BOOKS

James Wood: A prodigal son returns in Marilynne Robinson’s third novel.

BOOKS

John Updike: Max Factor’s life of beautification.

BOOKS

Joan Acocella: Did a sixteenth-century heretic grasp the nature of the cosmos?

BOOKS

MORE BOOKS

MUSIC

Alex Ross: How the classical concert took shape.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: Pop Levi—an iPod ad away from ubiquity.

MUSIC

Sasha Frere-Jones: David Banner hedges his hip-hop bet.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: NBC breaks records in Beijing.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: USA’s newest misfits.

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: David Simon’s “Generation Kill.”

TELEVISION

Nancy Franklin: A British take on the world’s oldest profession.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: A family’s secrets are revealed in “The First Breeze of Summer.”

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: The mesmerizing Billy Hough.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: Sam Shepard and Christopher Durang on dashed dreams.

THE THEATRE

Hilton Als: “Hair” and miscegenation.

ART

Vince Aletti: When color was new.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: Artists get serious.

ART

Peter Schjeldahl: J. M. W. Turner at the Met.

ART

Vince Aletti: The first hundred years of photography.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: A festival for everyone.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Step Afrika! stomps with style.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: The dance films of Dominique Delouche.

DANCE

Joan Acocella: Twyla Tharp at American Ballet Theatre.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: The new 2 Columbus Circle can’t break free of its predecessor.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Beijing’s great new architecture is a mixed blessing for the city.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: Beijing’s Olympic architecture.

THE SKY LINE

Paul Goldberger: What can a designer bring to the world of architecture?

TABLES FOR TWO

Mike Peed: The New French, in the West Village.

TABLES FOR TWO

Lauren Collins: Shalizar and Ravagh, in Manhattan.

TABLES FOR TWO

Ligaya Mishan: Scarpetta, in Chelsea.

TABLES FOR TWO

Andrea Thompson: Rhong-Tiam, in the Village.

TABLES FOR TWO

THE FOOD PAGE
 
0905,2008
Hendrik Hertzberg, Peter Boyer, and Dorothy Wickenden on the Republican Convention.
BLOGS
George Packer on how John McCain made himself hostage to his own party.
Steve Coll evaluates Asif Ali Zardari.
Hendrik Hertzberg remembers the best speech he’s ever heard.
The Book Bench: Sarah Palin’s book ban, endangered bookstores, and more.
The Cartoon Lounge: Michael Chabon drinks expensive beer, Perez Hilton, and more.
Goings On: Reuben Wilson unsampled, Chaka Khan tries to forget Bush, and more.
Sasha Frere-Jones hums a Labor Day tune.
Dana Goodyear stops to read a missed connection.
SEE ALL BLOGS
THE NAKED CAMPAIGN
Video: Steve Brodner draws Obama the pragmatist.
IN THIS ISSUE
View the table of contents.
AUDIO
The Face of the Surge: Steve Coll on General Petraeus’s duties in Iraq and his role in information operations.
Prime Time: Nancy Franklin on the Olympics and her career at The New Yorker.
Emotional Profit: David Grann on a legendary con man and his deceptions.
Head Cold: Jeffrey Eugenides reads Harold Brodkey’s short story “Spring Fugue.”
The Campaign Trail: Hendrik Hertzberg, Peter Boyer, and Dorothy Wickenden on the Republican Convention.
MORE PODCASTS
VIDEO
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.
Abandoned in Baghdad: Scenes from George Packer’s play “Betrayed.”
Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
The Naked Campaign: Steve Brodner draws the Presidential candidates.
Spots by Jacques de Loustal
SLIDE SHOWS
Show People: Rarely seen photographs of entertainers taken by Richard Avedon.
Birds in Flight: A portfolio of sculptural structures by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
Face Value: A slideshow of Max Factor advertisements from the 1930’s to the 1960’s.
Local Heroes: A selection of paintings by Brooklyn artist Kehinde Wiley.

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