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August 13, 2007

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Goings On

Tables for Two

15 East

By Ligaya Mishan

Critic’s Notebook

The Silence

By David Denby

Critic’s Notebook

Great Danes

By Sasha Frere-Jones

The Talk of the Town

Roots

Home at Carnegie Hall

By Nick Paumgarten

Botanists on Park

By Oliver Sacks

Comment

Read All About It

By Steve Coll

The Financial Page

Rent-Seekers

By James Surowiecki

Reporting & Essays

Annals of Medicine

An Error in the Code

By Richard Preston

Our Far-Flung Correspondents

Falling

By Burkhard Bilger

Letter from Italy

Slippery Business

The trade in adulterated olive oil.

By Tom Mueller

A Reporter at Large

The Black Sites

By Jane Mayer

Shouts & Murmurs

Aesop In The City

By Yoni Brenner

Fiction

Magda Mandela

By Hari Kunzru

The Critics

Books

Exit Wounds

By Pankaj Mishra

The Current Cinema

Lover Beware

By Anthony Lane

Pop Music

High and Mighty

By Sasha Frere-Jones

On Television

Women’s Work

By Nancy Franklin

A Critic at Large

Man with a Plan

By Steven Shapin

Poems

Blake

By Adam Zagajewski

Poems

A Village Life

By Louise Glück

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