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December 2008 Issue
December 2008 Cover
Henry Blodget explains why Wall Street always blows it; Caitlin Flanagan on the appeal of Twilight for adolescent girls; James Fallows interviews America's Chinese banker; P.J. O'Rourke on Disney's house of the future; David Samuels profiles an ultimate fighting champion; James Parker on the strange genius of actor Jim Carrey; and much more. View Magazine
  • Why Wall Street Always Blows It
    Henry Blodget
  • The Great Depression
    Laura Brunts and Theodore Kahn
  • “Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money”
    James Fallows
  • Iceland’s Meltdown
    Nigel Holmes and Megan McArdle
  • Getting Away With Murder?
    Joshua Hammer
  • Future Schlock
    P. J. O'Rourke
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December 2008 Issue
Saved Stories

EUROPE BETWEEN THE OCEANS: 9000 BC to AD 1000
By Barry Cunliffe (Yale)

BEETHOVEN WAS ONE-SIXTEENTH BLACK and Other Stories
By Nadine Gordimer (FSG)

NUREYEV: The Life
By Julie Kavanagh (Pantheon)

AUSTERITY BRITAIN: 1945–51
By David Kynaston (Bloomsbury)

NETHERLAND
By Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)

OLIVE KITTERIDGE
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)