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NEWS DESK
Qaddafi’s Final Battle?by Andrew Solomon
If you call any mobile phone in Tripoli, you hear bullets in the background. But if they’re the bullets of freedom for Libya is anyone’s guess…
September 11th: Ten Years
9/11, Then and Now
How did The New Yorker cover the September 11th attacks and their long aftermath? A new e-book gathers our coverage—from Ground Zero to Abbottabad—by Steve Coll, John Updike, Seymour M. Hersh, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Mayer, and more. With a new preface by David Remnick.
Notes on Politics
Huntsman, 2016?by Hendrik Hertzberg
As he surely understands, 2012 is not his year. But three things could happen to clear Jon Huntsman’s path to the White House…
Cartoon Desk
Cards for Strangersby Blake Eskin
Roz Chast decided that August 24th is Strangers Day. Then she made greeting cards: paper ones and e-cards.
A Critic At Large
Is That All There Is?by James Wood
We are locked into our rival certainties—religiosity and secularism—and to confess to weakness is like a registered Democrat wondering if she is really a Republican.








































