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07 05, 2007
Interesting Times
George Packer weighs the advice American soldiers got in Iraq during World War II.
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AUDIO
Afghan Ambush: Jon Lee Anderson on a battle with the Taliban in the poppy fields.
A Wealthy Suitor: Ken Auletta talks about the future of the Wall Street Journal.
The Dating Game: Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz on the monthly fiction podcast.
SLIDE SHOWS
In the Opium Den: Poppy eradication in Afghanistan, photographed by Aaron Huey.
Upward Bound: Engineering marvels created by Cecil Balmond and Arup.
Goddam Lovebird: Remembering the cartoonist J. B. Handelsman.
Spots by Laurent Cilluffo
VIDEO
Forward-thinking conversations with Will Wright, Arianna Huffington, Cory Booker, and others, from the New Yorker Conference.
A New Friend: Julie Christie in a clip from “Away From Her,” based on an Alice Munro short story.
Ten-second animations based on New Yorker cartoons.
COMING SOON
A searchable index, with abstracts, back to 1925.

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