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Shooting Britney
How a French journalist recruited a posse of Brazilian parking attendants and pizza-delivery guys and helped create Hollywood’s most addictive entertainment product
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SLIDESHOW
The Celebrity Hunters
David Samuels interviews Brandy and François-Regis Navarre of X17, Hollywood's biggest paparazzi agency, about a selection of recent celebrity photographs taken by X17's photographers on the streets of Los Angeles
The Return of the Paranoid Style
How the Iraq War and George W. Bush sent the movie industry back to its favorite era—the 1970s [Web only: Video: "Hollywood's Vietnam Moment"]
A Smuggler’s Story
Meet Oleg Khintsagov, a small-time hustler in Russia who can get you dried fish, furs, Turkish chandeliers … and weapons-grade uranium. He’s not the only one.
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INTERVIEWS
Uranium on the Loose
Lawrence Scott Sheets discusses the lawlessness of the former Soviet republics and the nuclear threat no one talks about.
Oh! Kolkata!
Calcutta has been renamed. Now, with investment on the rise, tech companies moving in, and a growing middle class, can it be reborn? [Web only: Slideshow: "The Streets of Kolkata"]
POETRY
The Windshield
Calendar
December Madness; two, three, many Iraqs?; To the moon, India!
Primary Sources
Choking in the clutch; Hungarian xenophobes; booze and bedlam at the ball game
FIRST PRINCIPLES
Sins of Emission
Kyoto was a sham and a failure—so how has it become a model for future anti-warming efforts?
Black Saturday
Editor’s Choice: How the Blitz saved Britain
‘I Am Joan Crawford’
Through sheer force of will, Hollywood’s most infamous single mother constructed a persona seductive, repellent, and almost impossible not to watch.
Keeping a Civil Tongue
An English critic decries the decline of his language—and his civilization.
A Revolutionary Simpleton
A new account of Ezra Pound’s early years reveals his volatile genius—and prefigures the madness that would claim him.
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INTERVIEWS
Jhumpa Lahiri
The author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake talks about her affinity for "plainness," why she avoids book reviews, and her new collection of short stories.
Cover to Cover
A guide to additional releases: the Dante club; reconsidering Lincoln-Douglas; the myth of the Delta blues
TRAVELS
Paradise Regained?
Kashmir tries to reclaim its once-celebrated tranquility. [Web only: Slideshow: "'Only Kashmir'"]
FOOD
A Papaya Grows in Holyoke
A crime-plagued mill town in Massachusetts has discovered the roots of urban renewal.
CULTURE AND COMMERCE
The Art of Healing
How better aesthetics in hospitals can make for happier—and healthier—patients [Web only: Slideshow: "Wellness by Design"]
Word Court
Cut to the chase; dictionary dilemmas