Jerome Groopman speaks with Andrew Martin about how regulation of shift length, the struggle to control costs, and the rise of "evidence-based" medicine have changed the way doctors learn and practice. To read Dr. Groopman's article, "Diagnosis: What Doctors are

A poster created by the US military for Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan on August 27, 2009 Most of the reports about the Pakistani Army's offensive

A scene from La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (Zipporah Films) Your take on Frederick Wiseman's —a two-and-a-half hour documentary opening on November 4th at New York's Film Forum—will depend on your feelings about ballet, about Wiseman, and about the

Barack Obama paying his respects as the bodies of eighteen American soldiers killed in Afghanistan were returned to the United States, Dover Air Force Base, October 29, 2009 (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux) I am told by people I respect

Hopi man, 1920s; photograph by Dorothea Lange (Oakland Museum of California) Some visual footnotes to my in the new issue of The New York Review. I wrote about her work for the Farm Security Administration and her famous photograph Migrant

Ernst Hanfstaengl (center, with raised arm), who served as foreign press chief for the Nazi party, in the Harvard Class of 1909 parade, June, 1934, from Stephen Norwood's The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower, courtesy of the Boston Public

A family of five children who emigrated to Inner Mongolia from the nearby Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to find work in the Heilonggui Industrial District, April 10, 2005. The oldest child is nine years old; the youngest is less than

An Iraqi weeps as he walks away from the ministries of justice and labour following the suicide bombing on October 25, 2009 (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images) The horrific twin bombings in Baghdad on October 25 that killed over 150 people, including

Serbian rioters attacking the US Embassy in Belgrade to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence, February 19, 2008 (AFP/Getty Images) In late September, I went to hear the President of Serbia, Boris Tadic, speak to students and professors at Columbia University.

Isia Leviant: Enigma, 1981 What happens in the brain when we look at a painting, listen to music, read a book? This was the subject of Neuroesthetics: When Art and the Brain Collide, a workshop conference at IULM University Milan

A scene from 'No Worst There Is None' at the One of the strangest and most beautiful shows in the Dublin Theatre Festival, which ran during the first week of October, was entitled "" and concerned the life of the

Václav Klaus () The Czech Republic is a country where everything seems to work, except for the political system. I once lived here, but hadn't returned for eleven years. Almost everything looks better than it did in 1998, and almost

Hamid Karzai (drawing by John Springs) Everything that could possibly go wrong in Afghanistan has gone wrong over the past two months. The industrial-level rigging and manipulation of the August 20 election—largely by the government of President Hamid Karzai—could have

Haleh Esfandiari Kian Tajbakhsh speaking in August at a trial of dozens of opposition protesters in Tehran (Houshang Hadi/Iranian Labor News Agency/AP Images) For me Iran's sentencing this week of Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh to at least twelve years in

Obama for the masses (Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Images) As the echoes of China's spectacular on October 1 were subsiding, officials in the Obama administration, in quieter settings in Washington, D.C., were telling representatives of the Dalai Lama that the president was

Update: Listen to Frederick Seidel in the Review's podcast. Frederick Seidel (Mark Mahaney) No recent book of poetry has been reviewed as widely and as favorably as Frederick Seidel's Poems 1959-2009. It seems as if every major newspaper and literary

Cuzco Children,' Cuzco, Peru, 1948; photograph by Irving Penn (Condé Nast Publications, Inc.) Irving Penn was assured a high place in the canon of photography well before his death, on October 7 at the age of ninety-two. Yet for those

Norman Manea and Hugh Eakin Nobel Laureate Herta Müller outside a Paris bookstore in 1987, shortly after her emigration from Romania. (Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis) The Swedish Academy's selection of Romanian-German writer Herta Müller for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature occasioned

Vicente Molina Foix (center) with the stars of his forthcoming film, El Dios de Madera, from his Vicente Molina Foix is one of those cultured Spaniards who seems more French than Iberian. A distinguished novelist, he knows everything about everything

On October 2, I joined hundreds of thousands of other Irish voters in approving the European Union's Lisbon Treaty by a surprising majority 63 to 33 percent. Because of the nature of its constitution, Ireland is the only country in