From The Atlantic Monthly, Ross Douthat on The Return of the Paranoid Style: How the Iraq War and George W. Bush sent the movie industry back to its favorite era—the 1970s (and more); meet Oleg Khintsagov, a small-time hustler in Russia who can get you dried fish, furs, Turkish chandeliers and weapons-grade uranium — he’s not the only one (and more); Calcutta has been renamed; now, with investment on the rise, tech companies moving in, and a growing middle class, can it be reborn? (and more); an English critic decries the decline of his language—and his civilization; Christopher Hitchens reviews Ezra Pound: Poet A Portrait of the Man & His Work Volume I: The Young Genius 1885–1920 by A. David Moody; and a review of Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, A Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler. Prophet and pastor: To Martin Marty, his former professor, congregant, and friend, Jeremiah Wright has been both. Gore and Edwards may have the most party clout, but there’s only one person Hillary will finally listen to — her name isn’t Bill. A review of Max Kozloff’s The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900. Testing Horace Mann: How some extremely contemporary problems at one of the city's most prestigious schools—a Facebook scandal, a tell-all-novelist history teacher—were resolved through old-fashioned exertion of influence.
