New issue received from: The New Yorker (April 19, 2010)
Summary of this issue:
*Going on about town
*The talk of the town. Hendrik Hertzberg on the Pope's problem; James Surowiecki on midterm prospects
* Annals of exploration. The Ice Ballon. Lost in the Arctic. alec wilkinson
*Shouts & Murmurs. Living Up to Your Prius. Bruce McCall
*Personal history. Go West. An American Homecoming. peter hessler
*Letter from Istanbul. The Memory Kitchen. A chef recovers a national cuisine. Elif Batumman
*Profiles. Angle of Vision. Photographing the Sahara. lauren collins
*A reporter at large. towheads. The tugboat life. Burkhard Bilger
*Fiction “Prefiguration of Lalo Cura”. Robert Bolano
THE CRITICS
*The theatre. The "Addams Family" musical. John Lahr
*A critic at large. Henry Luce vs. Harold Ross. Jill Lepore
*Books. Briefly Noted: Don Paterson's “Rain”. Dan Chiasson; Kitty Kelley's "Oprah". lauren collins
*The artworld. Henri Cartier-Bresson at MOMA. Peter Schjeldahl
*Music events. William Christie and period performance. alex ross
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