The New Yorker - July 21, 2008

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COMMENT
Flip-Flop Flap
All politicians aren’t alike.
by Hendrik Hertzberg

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Streetscapes: Fish Story
Whose shark is that?
by Mike Peed

Building Dept.: Shape-shifter
David Fisher’s dynamic architecture.
by Paul Goldberger

The Spiritual Life: H-Bloo and A-Rod
Kabbalah experts consider the A-Rod scandal.
by Ben McGrath

ANNALS OF SCIENCE
Surfing the Universe
An outsider’s shot at physics glory.
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells

SHOUTS & MURMURS
Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers
by Yoni Brenner

ON AND OFF THE AVENUE
Buy Shanghai!
A city for serious shoppers.
by Patricia Marx

THE POLITICAL SCENE
Making It
Where Barack Obama learned to be a pol.
by Ryan Lizza

LIVES AND LETTERS

The Lion and the Mouse
The battle of “Stuart Little.”
by Jill Lepore

FICTION
Yurt
by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

POEMS

“Courting Forgetfulness”
by Robert Bly

“Mary at the Tattoo Shop”
by Marcus Jackson

BOOKS

Saying goodbye to grass.
by Elizabeth Kolbert

Briefly Noted: “City of Thieves”; “The Sister”; “Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky”; “Bordeaux/Burgundy”

MUSICAL EVENTS

“Die Soldaten” at the Armory.
by Alex Ross

Slide Show: A portfolio of photographs from the opera.

ON TELEVISION
“Generation Kill.”
by Nancy Franklin

THE CURRENT CINEMA

“The Dark Knight,” “WALL-E.”
by David Denby

A digital duo returns.
by Sasha Frere-Jones

Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show.”
by Anthony Lane

TABLES FOR TWO
Blue Ribbon Downing Street Bar
by Andrea Thompson