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November 2, 2009
Blog: Double Take

Back Issues: Scientist Spies

NASA scientist Stewart D. Nozette was recently indicted on two counts of attempted espionage, accused of trying to sell information to an undercover F.B.I. agent. In its report on the case, the Washington Post...
February 09, 2009
Personal History

Checkpoints

PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer’s experiences with fact-checking. Sara Lippincott retired as an editor at this magazine in the early nineteen-nineties, having worked in The New Yorker’s fact-checking department from 1966 until 1982. She had a passion for science. In 1973, a long piece of…
December 15, 2008
A Reporter at Large

Atomic John

A REPORTER AT LARGE about John Coster-Mullen’s painstaking research into the inner workings of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. The writer first came across John Coster-Mullen’s name in 2004 after attending an exhibit by the artist Jim Sanborn that included what appeared to be exact…
October 27, 2008
Musical Events

False Dawn

MUSICAL EVENTS review of John Adam’s “Doctor Atomic.” John Adam’s “Doctor Atomic”—an opera set in the days and hours leading up to the first nuclear test, on July 16, 1945—was first staged at the San Francisco opera in 2005 and was Adam’s most formidable achievement to…
October 03, 2005
Musical Events

Countdown

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about “Doctor Atomic,” the new opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars based on the Manhattan Project… Writer visits the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the site of the first atomic explosion. Interviews Peter Sellars, the librettist and director of “Doctor Atomic…
November 06, 2006
Books Briefly Noted

The Great Escape

Briefly Noted review of “The Great Escape” (Simon & Schuster; $27) by Kati Marton…
July 25, 2005
Books Briefly Noted

American Prometheus

BRIEFLY NOTED review of “American Prometheus” (Knopf; $35) by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin…
July 25, 2005
Books Briefly Noted

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer

BRIEFLY NOTED review of “The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer” (Viking; $25.95) by Priscilla J. McMillan…
July 25, 2005
Books Briefly Noted

109 East Palace

BRIEFLY NOTED review of “109 East Palace” (Simon & Schuster; $26.95) by Jennet Conant…
July 25, 2005
Books Briefly Noted

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

BRIEFLY NOTED review of “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart” (Soft Skull; $25) by Lydia Millet…
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