THE NEW YORKER.  2009 - NOVEMBER 9TH.

Featuring the Stephen King Castle Rock story PREMIUM HARMONY.

THIS ISSUES FEATURES:

Biggus Buckus
The imperial Bloomberg.
by Hendrik Hertzberg

Out to Lunch
The perils of distraction.
by Nick Paumgarten

Martha Slept Here
The Hamptons guide to the stars.
by Sheelah Kolhatkar

Cleaned Out
A poet loses her life savings to Bernie Madoff.
by Rebecca Mead

 
Priced to Go
The Amazon—Wal-Mart price war.
by James Surowiecki
Talk This Way
Where actors find their accents.
by Alec Wilkinson
Live Your Life
by Dave Cowen
 
The Scavenger
L.A.’s guru of the authentic.
by Dana Goodyear
 
Captives
An investigation of the Israeli attacks.
by Lawrence Wright

Audio: The violent conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Possessed
Ayn Rand and the people who loved her.
by Thomas Mallon

“Premium Harmony”
by Stephen King
 
Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals.”
by Elizabeth Kolbert

Briefly Noted:“In the Falling Snow”; “Hell”; “The Locust and the Bird”; “Too Big to Fail.”
 
America’s homicidal history.
by Jill Lepore

 
Meredith Monk at BAM.
by Alex Ross

 
“The Men Who Stare at Goats,” “Precious.”
 
“November Philosophers”
by Katie Ford

“Southeast of Eden”
by Glyn Maxwell

 
Ron Vawter, in the Wooster Group’s DVD “Brace Up!”
by Hilton Als

Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Il Grido,” at BAM.
by Anthony Lane

“Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection,” at the Frick.
by Peter Schjeldahl

 
“Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife” and “Summer Storm.”
by Richard Brody
 
Saraghina
by Lila Byock
 
The Theatre
Night Life
Art
Dance
Classical Music
Movies
Readings and Talks
Above and Beyond
 
Presvytera Elizabeth Tervo; Nina Planck; Robert Stanton; Shaun Coen
 
“Autumn in Central Park”
Eric Drooker
 
David Sipress, Harry Bliss, Paul Noth, Farley Katz, Julia Suits, Tom Cheney, Roz Chast, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Danny Shanahan, Charles Barsotti, P. C. Vey, Gahan Wilson, William Haefeli
 
Benoît van Innis