Table of Contents

November 12, 2012

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The Talk of the Town

Comment

Into the Stormby Hendrik Hertzberg

The post-disaster election.
Water Mark

Crossing the Lineby Elizabeth Kolbert

Rebuilding for climate change.
Waterfront Property

Another Cityby Nick Paumgarten

New Yorkers and the lowlands.

The Critics

Books

Bloc Headsby Louis Menand

Anne Applebaum’s “Iron Curtain.”
The Current Cinema

High Timesby David Denby

“Flight,” “Skyfall.”
Pop Music

Faith’s Worksby Sasha Frere-Jones

Paloma Faith, Cockney chanteuse.
Books

The Body Artistby Dan Chiasson

Louise Glück’s collected poems.
Musical Events

Blunt Instrumentsby Alex Ross

Doings in Donaueschingen.

Features

A Critic at Large

Love on the Marchby Alex Ross

America’s gay-rights journey.
On and Off the Avenue

Ask Bettyby Judith Thurman

The sage of Bergdorf Goodman.
Profiles

The Rhythm in Everythingby Burkhard Bilger

Questlove’s rise to prominence.

Shouts & Murmurs

Cartoons

Drawings: Andy Friedman, Harry Bliss, Kaamran Hafeez, Zachary Kanin, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Robert Mankoff, Robert Leighton, P. C. Vey, William Haefeli, Michael Crawford, Frank Cotham, Barbara Smaller, Christopher Weyant, Emily Flake, Farley Katz
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