The New Yorker, 2008-02-25

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"Ink: Say It All in Six Words" / Lizzie Widdicombe
Eli Manning, and Katie Couric? (“Little brother; big game; last laugh”?

Michael Specter: In measuring carbon emissions, it’s easy to confuse morality and science.

"East Side Story" / Larissa MacFarquhar

• "Two such 'places' represents the bedrock of a certain trite life of materialism to which from the age of four I have so passionately and unsuccessfully tried to attch you... I laughed feebly at your saying at the end of your account of the sale (which stabbed like 'The Cherry Orchard') that I was too remote to care about such trivia."
• "You artists.. can't look at a landscape or a bowl of fruit without thinking how you will put it on a canvas so that somebody else will see it as your landscape or your bowl of fruit. That is the inescapable vulgarity of art."
• It is the privilege of the establishment to experience its power as idealism.
• A novelist of manners must balance satire and nostalgia... Whitman, who slosh about and 'yearn', as he puts it.
  

"Gunpowder Plots" / Peter Schjeldahl
__ a feeling that I’ve got used to in international art circles lately: that of being provincial, of blinking in the face of an intricate sophistication that is grounded elsewhere.

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