This weeks issue of The Week magazine has arrived in mailboxes. Features this week include: Post-college careers: Rotten luck for the Class of 2009; Raising the fuel efficiency of tomorrow’s autos; Obama tackles abortion issue; Sri Lanka’s civil war ends; and Pelosi and waterboarding: How much did she know?
Arts & Leisure
Books
Author of the week: Suze Orman
Novel of the week: Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
Book of the week: Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Music
Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
Steve Earle: Townes
Summer sounds: Upcoming music festivals across the U.S.
Film
Angels & Demons
The Brothers Bloom
Management
People and Gossip
Gossip: Woody Allen
Gossip: Brooke Shields
Gossip: Natalie Portman, Sean Penn
Gossip: Farrah Fawcett
George Hamilton’s manufactured image
Nazaar Joodi’s unhappy asylum
When Michelle Pfeiffer was easy prey
Lifestyle
New cars: BMW 335d
The best … indoor/outdoor chairs
Tip of the week: How to trim expenses
Best websites to cut travel costs
For those who have everything: Legacy Locker
Travel
This week’s travel dream: The other side of Brazil
Getting the flavor of … Lockdown in old Missouri, and more
Last-minute travel deals
Hotel of the week: Mondrian South Beach, Miami
Book List
Best books … chosen by Lisa See
Stage
Stage: Giant
Art
Exhibit of the week: The Generational: Younger Than Jesus
Television
The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Movies on TV this week
Show of the week: Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone
Extras
Business columns: How a good idea turned harmful
Business columns: Deregulation is getting a bad rap
Issue of the week: Getting tough on antitrust
Making Money
Workplace
What the experts say
Post-college careers: Rotten luck for the Class of 2009
Main Stories
Raising the fuel efficiency of tomorrow’s autos
News & Opinion
Raising the fuel efficiency of tomorrow’s autos
Obama tackles abortion issue
Sri Lanka’s civil war ends
Controversies
Pelosi and waterboarding: How much did she know?
Best Columns – US
Will voters actually like change?
The derailment of a great American icon
The wounded soldiers we’d rather forget
Quote of the week: Michael Gerson
Best Columns – Europe
United Kingdom: The crime of walking while black
Austria: Where Nazi sympathies no longer shock
Germany: A growing gap between rich and poor
Best Columns – International
Saudi Arabia: Beware of sweet-talking women
South Korea: A society that needs no appointment
Talking Points
Cheney: Why he’s gone on the offensive
Abuse photos: Obama’s change of heart
The media: Can The New York Times survive?
Briefing
The charter school alternative
How They See Us
When Bibi met Barack
Obituaries
Wayman Tisdale
Robert B. Choate Jr.
Sid Laverents
Health and Science
Health & Science
Health scare of the week: The threat of Martian microbes
It Wasn’t All Bad
Pig roots up World War I bomb, and more
Boring but Important
Credit card overhaul
Only in America
Using stun guns on children, and more
Good Week – Bad Week
‘Heteropaternal superfecundation,’ and more
Tabloids
Teenager brandishes banana in store hold-up, and more
Noted
More adults living with parents, and more
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