Martin Schneider writes:
A new issue of The New Yorker comes out today. It is the Money Issue. A preview of its contents, adapted from the magazine’s press release:
In “Inside the Crisis,” Ryan Lizza examines the inner workings of Obama’s economic team, interviewing all the major players—Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Christina Romer, Peter Orszag, Jared Bernstein, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Joe Biden—plus many other Administration officials, to provide a look at how Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, former Treasury Secretary, and “one of the most brilliant economists of his generation,” has steered the Administration’s economic policy.
In “Searching for Trouble,” Ken Auletta goes inside Google to tell the story of the company’s growth and future.
In “Call Me,” Tad Friend profiles Nikki Finke, the entertainment-business reporter who has been running the Web site Deadline Hollywood Daily out of her Los Angeles apartment since 2006.
In Comment, Michael Specter asks why so many people fear the H1N1 vaccine more than the disease itself.
In the Financial Page, James Surowiecki looks at the recession’s impact on consumer behavior.
David Owen explores solutions to the problem of regulating executive compensation.
In Shouts & Murmurs, Yoni Brenner offers program notes on orchestral classics.
Nick Paumgarten looks at attempts to predict the financial markets using numerical patterns, and profiles one man whose strategy has predicted many of the major peaks and crashes of the past thirty years.
There is a portfolio of cartoons about the stock market.
Jill Lepore goes back to the roots of management consulting and asks how the idea of efficiency took over our lives.
Hilton Als reviews Tracy Letts’s latest play Superior Donuts.
Peter Schjeldahl visits the Luc Tuymans traveling retrospective, currently in Columbus, Ohio.
Anthony Lane watches Ricky Gervais’s The Invention of Lying.
There is a short story by Tessa Hadley.

Martin Schneider writes:
(We neglected to execute this feature the last couple of weeks, but now we’re back on the stick.)
A new issue of The New Yorker comes out tomorrow. A preview of its contents, adapted from the magazine’s press release:
In “Gangland,” Jon Lee Anderson goes inside Morro do Dendê, one of the more dangerous favelas in Rio de Janeiro, to explore the rarely seen world within the shantytown slums and to meet with Fernandinho, the favela’s head gangster, who runs the drug trade and dispenses justice through an armed posse.
In “Rational Irrationality,” John Cassidy provides a new reading of the economic crisis and discusses its implications for the regulatory overhaul that President Obama has suggested.
“When I think of the people I know who are active in Iran’s pro-democracy movement,” a correspondent writes from Tehran, in “Veiled Threat,” “I think first of the women.” Looking back on the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and this summer’s demonstrations over the contested Presidential election, the writer says, “I’m struck by the absence of women in the first, the paucity of women in the second, and the triumphant presence of women in the third.”
In Comment, Elizabeth Kolbert looks ahead to December’s U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and describes the steps the U.S. must take to become a true leader in climate-change legislation.
In Shouts & Murmurs, Zev Borow compares his spouse to home electronics.
Robert Polidori photographs the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations.
Anthony Lane profiles the filmmaker Michael Haneke.
Nancy Franklin watches The Jay Leno Show.
James Wood considers the latest work in the author Robert Powers’s science-fiction oeuvre.
Alex Ross describes the shortcomings of the current Tosca at the Met.
Anthony Lane takes in Peter Sellars’s Othello, starring John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
David Denby reviews the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man and Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story.
There is a short story by George Saunders.