Category Archives: 2012 issues

This summer’s fiction issue is the first I can recall dedicated to one genre of fiction. Exciting for me – I grew up on science fiction, but I’ve lost touch with the genre. I was eager to see how it had … Continue reading →

In Jake Halpern’s “Secret of the Temple,” we learn right away that in Kerala, India, things don’t work the way we’re used to: Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors and they must … Continue reading →

If you don’t usually read the letters to the editor, you missed a couple of important (and fun!) ones early this summer — I can’t remember seeing a writer get clobbered quite so thoroughly before. In the original piece, “The … Continue reading →

“The Transition,” which traces the events of the day that Lyndon B. Johnson became president, is a riveting excerpt from a book by Robert Caro that comes out today. Caro has written extensively about LBJ, and all of it is … Continue reading →

I enjoy the New Yorker‘s pieces about music, but I gotta say that it’s hard to read about songs without hearing them. I expected the iPad edition to include more clips, but its offerings are pretty sparse. In this issue, … Continue reading →

The article on Christian Marclay’s “The Clock,”  transfixed me. I’m curious to hear if you were as taken with it, or if it just happened to hit upon a mix of my own idiosyncratic fascinations. If you’ve ever made a … Continue reading →

I don’t expect to be invited to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, known as “Davos.” So I was amused to recognize the feelings that Nick Paumgarten recounted from his first time covering the gathering. If you’ve been … Continue reading →

I was one of about three people who left the theater at the end of “The Artist” feeling vaguely disappointed. Silent film is unfamiliar to me, but given the powerful stories I’ve seen told with even more limited tools, I … Continue reading →