In this week’s issue: John Cassidy on the value of Wall Street; George Packer on George W. Bush; Hendrik Hertzberg on George Soros; James Wood on Keith Moon; Lauren Collins on Raj Patel; Peter Schjeldahl on the Ghent Altarpiece; Alex Ross on Georg Friedrich Haas; John Lahr on John Guare; Anthony Lane on “The King’s Speech” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”; fiction by Samantha Hunt; and more.
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