Ex-A.I.G. chief builds a competitor that may impact A.I.G.'s means to repay taxpayers. Interview with a man who trains rats to detect landmines. Dementia experts dismiss N.F.L.'s future analysis of players' cognitive decline. Numerical evidence proves Derek Jeter
Brooklyn resident Emily Bobrow is editor of More Intelligent Life, the online version of The Economist’s quarterly culture and style magazine. She is also a contributor to The Economist's books and arts section and has written for The Believer, the New York Observer, and TimeOut New York.
Bush is back, this time as a softshoe motivational speaker. Op: Torturing dogs or humans engenders compliance, not truth-telling. Comedian jokes about amputee soldiers; pols and editors outraged on soldiers' behalf; soldiers laugh, distrust pompous pols and editors. Political activists fulminate because it provides "so many of
Times reporter David Rohde's Afghanistan kidnapping account could serve as a guide for how best to deal with the Taliban. How the Red Cross delivers letters to hostages. By effectively cornering the market on anti-Administration animus, Fox News has had a robust 2009 so far. Some researchers
Photographer Robert Bergman’s first commercial outing coincides with two debut solo exhibitions, one at the National Gallery of Art in DC, and another at PS1. And all of this from an artist who’s never had a gallery show before.
Obama weighs outcome of Afghanistan war game; watchers wait for McChrystal to fly to D.C. Op: Obama's surveillance tools are the same as Bush's: served with glib assurances. At-home cosmetic lasers gaining popularity, and plastic surgeons everywhere are worried. Interior decorating with Augusten Burroughs.
Let's celebrate the age-old art of scaring yourself silly. This month, we're wondering: What was your first scary cinema experience like--in theaters or at home, eagerly anticipated or forced into viewing by your much heartier friends/evil older siblings? For this month's
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader in need of creative, recession-friendly Halloween costume ideas.
The state of Iran: Giant jail full of widespread revulsion and corrosive internal conflict. Long before he became president, there were signs in Obama of a tendency to promise things easily and compromise often. Cliffhanger director, Garcia, and Kilmer build film around last year's Russia-Georgia war. FOX
For agents and publishers, the Frankfurt Book Fair is publishing's biggest event: part conclave, mostly marathon, and all business. It is absolutely no place for an aspiring author, as we discover.
