COMMENT
Euro Science Can a currency crisis break up the E.U.? by John Lanchester
THE TALK OF THE TOWN The End? Debating the future of men, at N.Y.U.
by Rebecca Mead
New Jerseysaurus
Looking for fossils in Monmouth County, N.J. by Elizabeth Kolbert Strings Attached
Basil Twist and the lost art of puppeteering.
by Michael Schulman THE FINANCIAL PAGE
A Waste of Energy? Why the Obama administration was right to invest in Solyndra. by James Surowiecki
ANNALS OF ECONOMICS The Demand Doctor How right was John Maynard Keynes? by John Cassidy PERSONAL HISTORY Follow That Cab! The great iPad chase. by Chris Crowley DEPT. OF TECHNOLOGY The Crypto-Currency
Bitcoin's mysterious inventor. by Joshua Davis OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS
The Shandy An Indian cow broker in a new economy. by Akash Kapur
LETTER FROM TORONTO The Golden Age
A big fight in the jewelry business.
by Calvin Trillin
A REPORTER AT LARGE State for Sale
Art Pope's conquest of North Carolina.
by Jane Mayer PROFILES You Belong with Me Taylor Swift's angst empire. by Lizzie Widdicombe FICTION "Oubliette" by David Long STICKY FINGERS Free Everything by Miranda July Off the Shelf by Patti Smith To Catch a Beat by Jonathan Lethem Stealing Fire by Tobias Wolff BOOKS The novels of Georges Simenon.by Joan Acocella Briefly Noted: "There But For The"; "Touch"; "What It Is Like to Go to War";"Driving Home."POP MUSICThe world of black metal.by Sasha Frere-JonesTHE THEATREAn Alice Childress revival.
by Hilton AlsMUSICAL EVENTS
"Atys" at BAM, "Anna Bolena" at the Met.
by Alex RossTHE CURRENT CINEMA
"The Ides of March." by Anthony Lane
POEMS "October Heat Wave"
by W.G. Sebald "Money Time" by Craig Morgan Teicher "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine," at the Met. by Peter Schjeldahl "The Threepenny Opera," at BAM. by Hilton Als
David Gordon's "Dancing Henry Five," by Joan Acocella
POP NOTES Not Alone, Not Forsaken
by Ben Greenman