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Slide Show
The City of Sandy, One Year Laterby Amy Davidson
The story of New York after the storm was always more complicated than the easy themes of unity and division that emerged.
The Sporting Scene
Pursuit of Papinessby Roger Angell
Big Papi sometimes gives the impression that he is stopping by to play in these little entertainments, in the manner of a dad joining his daughter’s fifth-grade softball game…
News Desk
A Bride and a Refugeeby Rania Abouzeid
A sixteen-year-old Syrian girl prepares for her wedding in Jordan’s Za’atari camp.
Take Out
The Case Against Tippingby Zadie Smith
We are subject to enough delusions in this life without adding to them the belief that the girl with the name tag is secretly in love with us…
Page-Turner
Blessed Are the
Cat Loversby Anthony Lane
To be ceaselessly gratified by one’s pet and to find one’s love returned with interest, on all occasions, is bad education for the soul…
The Latest
10/29 7:18 PM
Alan Greenspan Rediscovers Keynes—Sort Of
Despite the former Fed chairman’s U-turn on bubbles and his flirtation with behavioral economics, he hasn’t repudiated much of what he
10/29 6:36 PM
Interview: Clive Thompson’s “Smarter Than You Think”
Today’s self-publishing tools, almost from the get-go, were designed to privilege the present and ignore the past.
10/29 5:38 PM
Can an Argentine Animated Film Rival Hollywood Blockbusters?
If the success of “Metegol” continues, it will represent the latest step toward relevance for foreign animated features, and could even
10/29 5:33 PM
The Majesty of the “Star Wars” Blooper Reel
Gag-reel footage from the first “Star Wars,” first shown this summer at Comic-Con in San Diego, is now available online.
10/29 5:05 PM
Wheeldon’s Anti-Sentimental Cinderella
The first thing you want to talk about—forget the story, the steps!—is the sets and costumes…
10/29 4:28 PM
Papiness
Big Papi continued to astound, with a run-scoring double on his first pitch of the evening, two singles, and a line-drive
10/29 3:32 PM
What We’re Reading: “Low Life,” Domestic Zoology, and Philip Roth on a Honeymoon
Notes on Luc Sante’s “Low Life,” Konrad Z. Lorenz’s “King Solomon’s Ring,” and Philip Roth’s “The Ghost Writer.”
Editors’ Choice
Shouts & Murmurs
A Pre-K Day of
the Deadby Maria Semple
All parents are welcome to help decorate skulls.
Annals of Surveillance
A History of Secretsby Jill Lepore
Why the case for privacy always comes too late.
