Features
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
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.
Interviews: 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"]
Agenda
The Case for Partisanship
Why polarization is good for us
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
Bay of Capitalist Pigs
How Havana might change after Castro
Body Counting
Why even the most-dubious statistics influence our thinking
Sins of Emission
Kyoto was a sham and a failure—so how has it become a model for future anti-warming efforts?
Books
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.
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.
Cover to Cover
A guide to additional releases: the Dante club; reconsidering Lincoln-Douglas; the myth of the Delta blues
Paradise Regained?
Kashmir tries to reclaim its once-celebrated tranquility. [Web only: Slideshow: "'Only Kashmir'"]
A Papaya Grows in Holyoke
A crime-plagued mill town in Massachusetts has discovered the roots of urban renewal.
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
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