Volume 301 No. 3 | April 2008
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How a French journalist recruited a posse of Brazilian parking attendants and pizza-delivery guys and helped create Hollywood’s most addictive entertainment product
by David Samuels
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SLIDESHOW
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
by David Samuels
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.
by Lawrence Scott Sheets
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INTERVIEWS
Lawrence Scott Sheets discusses the lawlessness of the former Soviet republics and the nuclear threat no one talks about.
by Timothy Lavin
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"]
by Robert D. Kaplan
POETRY
by Jonathan Musgrove
COMMENT
Why polarization is good for us
by Matthew Yglesias
December Madness; two, three, many Iraqs?; To the moon, India!
by Matthew Quirk
Choking in the clutch; Hungarian xenophobes; booze and bedlam at the ball game
WORLD IN NUMBERS
How Havana might change after Castro
by Graeme Wood
IRAQ
Why even the most-dubious statistics influence our thinking
by Megan McArdle
FIRST PRINCIPLES
Kyoto was a sham and a failure—so how has it become a model for future anti-warming efforts?
by Clive Crook
Editor’s Choice: How the Blitz saved Britain
by Benjamin Schwarz
Through sheer force of will, Hollywood’s most infamous single mother constructed a persona seductive, repellent, and almost impossible not to watch.
by Thomas Mallon
An English critic decries the decline of his language—and his civilization.
by B. R. Myers
A new account of Ezra Pound’s early years reveals his volatile genius—and prefigures the madness that would claim him.
by Christopher Hitchens
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INTERVIEWS
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.
by Isaac Chotiner
A guide to additional releases: the Dante club; reconsidering Lincoln-Douglas; the myth of the Delta blues
FOOD
A crime-plagued mill town in Massachusetts has discovered the roots of urban renewal.
by Corby Kummer
CULTURE AND COMMERCE
How better aesthetics in hospitals can make for happier—and healthier—patients [Web only: Slideshow: "Wellness by Design"]
by Virginia Postrel
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THE PUZZLER
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Cut to the chase; dictionary dilemmas
by Barbara Wallraff
