David Samuels reports on the world of the Hollywood of paparazzi; Ross Douthat on contemporary Hollywood's return to the 1970s; Lawrence Scott Sheets reports on uranium smuggling by small-time Russian crooks; Robert D. Kaplan on the new Calcutta; Christopher Hitchens on Ezra Pound; Virginia Postrel on the healing power of hospital decor; Clive Crook on the failure of the Kyoto Protocol; Joshua Hammer discovers an idyllic Kashmir; and much more.
How a French journalist recruited a posse of Brazilian parking attendants and pizza-delivery guys and helped create Hollywood’s most addictive entertainment product
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
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"]
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.
Interviews: Lawrence Scott Sheets discusses the lawlessness of the former Soviet republics and the nuclear threat no one talks about.
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"]
Why polarization is good for us
December Madness; two, three, many Iraqs?; To the moon, India!
Choking in the clutch; Hungarian xenophobes; booze and bedlam at the ball game
How Havana might change after Castro
Why even the most-dubious statistics influence our thinking
Kyoto was a sham and a failure—so how has it become a model for future anti-warming efforts?
Editor’s Choice: How the Blitz saved Britain
Through sheer force of will, Hollywood’s most infamous single mother constructed a persona seductive, repellent, and almost impossible not to watch.
An English critic decries the decline of his language—and his civilization.
A new account of Ezra Pound’s early years reveals his volatile genius—and prefigures the madness that would claim him.
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.
A guide to additional releases: the Dante club; reconsidering Lincoln-Douglas; the myth of the Delta blues
Kashmir tries to reclaim its once-celebrated tranquility. [Web only: Slideshow: "'Only Kashmir'"]
A crime-plagued mill town in Massachusetts has discovered the roots of urban renewal.
How better aesthetics in hospitals can make for happier—and healthier—patients [Web only: Slideshow: "Wellness by Design"]
Cut to the chase; dictionary dilemmas
Doin' It in the Park: No Gatorade (Excerpt)
The Visual Clichés of Instagram
Synthetic Biology
David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more
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Marvin Kalb Proud to Defend Arnaud De Borchgrave
What the Web Knows About the Canadian Foot-Mailing Suspect
The 11 Days Zuckerberg Spent as One of the 40 Richest Humans
What Critics Get Wrong About Creative Cities
Great Moments in the History of Boondoggles
The Pseudo-Suburbanist's Dilemma
