6 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
29 THE TALK OF TOWN
Jeffrey Toobin on the Supreme Court;
James Surowiecki on the skills gap.
Michael Specter 38 ANNALS OF SCIENCE
The Mosquito Solution
A biotech bid to eradicate dengue.
Joel Stein 47 SHOUTS & MUI\MUIU
I Will Be Your Server
Mavis Gallant 48 LIFE AND LETTERS
The Hunger Diaries: A writer’s apprenticeship.
Dexter Filkins 54 A REPORTER AT LARGE
After America Can an Afghan civil war be prevented?
Nathan Heller 68 AMERICAN CHIRONICLES
Listen and Learn The TED Talk phenomenon.
Tessa Hadley 78 FICTION
”An Abduction”
THE CRITICS
Louis Menand 88 A CRITIC AT LARGE
Douglas Brinkley’s “Cronkite.”
95 BOOKS
Briefly Noted
Emily Nussbaum 96 ON TELEVISION
“Louie,” “Episodes.”
Anthony Lane 98 THE CURRENT CINEMA
“The Amazing Spider-Man,”
“Take This Waltz
POEMS
Virginia Konchan 42 “The Rose-Way in Giverny”
Robert Wrigley 64 “Seen from the Porch, a Bear by the House
