New issue received from: The New Yorker (May 3, 2010)
Summary of this issue:
HOW
* Scandals: Goldman Sachs and Wall Street reform. by John Cassidy
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
*Treasure Hunter: A curator of African-American history looks back. by Lauren Collins
*Visiting Dignitary: Oxford alumni take a peek at the Magna Carta. by Ben McGrath
*Lost: Volcano refugees in New York.by Lizzie Widdicombe
FINANCIAL PAGE
* Déjà Vu: Why investors never learn. by James Surowiecki
LETTER FROM BOSTON
*Tea and Sympathy: Who owns the American Revolution? by Jill Lepore
SHOUTS & MURMUR
*The Money Whisperer. Patricia Marx
A REPORT AT LARGE
*Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a murder trial. by Janet Malcolm
FICTION
*“La Vita Nuova” by Allegra Goodman
A CRITICAL AT LARGE
*Neil Simon's comic empire. by John LahrBOOKS
BOOKS
*Briefly Noted: “Empires and Barbarians”; "Still Life"; "The Birth of Love"; "The Imperfectionists."
THEATER
*“La Cage aux Folles,” “Sondheim on Sondheim.” by Hilton Als
MUSICAL EVENTS
*Louis Andriessen at seventy. by Alex Ross
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