Conde Naste has published the May 11 issue of The New Yorker magazine. Featured in this issue are articles on interrogating torture, the flu and the border, and what is it about the word “swine” ?
Interrogating Torture
How to account for the past.
by Philip Gourevitch
The Talk of the Town
Standstill
The flu below the border.
by Alma Guillermoprieto
Samela’s Shammash
Sammy Davis, Jr.,’s menorah for sale.
by Lizzie Widdicombe
By Any Other Name
What is it about the word “swine”?
by Lauren Collins
The Financial Page
Monsters, Inc.
How banks got big.
by James Surowiecki
Annals of Innovation
How David Beats Goliath
Secrets of highly effective underdogs.
by Malcolm Gladwell
Reflections
The Fifth Blade
Evolution and the razor.
by Adam Gopnik
Shouts & Murmors
Making Friends
by Amy Ozols
Onwards and Upward with the Arts
The Art Doctor
Conserving contemporary art.
by Rebecca Mead
Department of Education
The Instigator
L.A.’s charter-school crusader.
by Douglas McGray
Profiles
Brain Games
The Marco Polo of neuroscience.
by John Colapinto
The Reporter at Large
The Long Shot
Contemporary China finds its auteur.
by Evan Osnos
Fiction
“The Autobiography of J.G.B”
by J. G. Ballard
Books
Helen Gurley Brown, cosmopolitan.
by Judith Thurman
Briefly Noted: “How to Win a Cosmic War”; “The Parents We Mean to Be”; “Natural Elements”; “Out of My Skin.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s radical poetics.
by Adam Kirsch
The Theatre
Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms.”
by Hilton Als
Pop Music
The choral approach of Grizzly Bear.
by Sasha Frere-Jones
The Current Cinema
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” “Fighting,” “Tyson.”
by David Denby
Poems
“Galveston, 1961”
by Richard Wilbur
“Obscurity and Regret”
by C. D. Wright
“Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies”
by Heather McHugh
Critics’ Notebook
“Merchant of Venice,” at BAM.
by Hilton Als
“The Late Film,” at BAM.
by Anthony Lane
Mastodon, at the Fillmore New York.
by Sasha Frere-Jones
Tables for Two
Shang
by Andrea Thompson
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