http://www.newyorker.com (powered by http://www.polare.com/news/) en http://www.polare.com/news/ http://www.polare.com/news/HPE/Images/button.gif 80 15 http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068496/ In 1974, Immy Humes, a high-school senior, was doing some research in the women’s history archive at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library when she noticed a faded piece of stationery. According... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068497/ The grainy haze that settles over the soldiers in David Levinthal’s photographs isn’t the fog of war, it’s the impressionistic murk that results from setting his camera lens for an e... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068498/ The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, worki... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068499/ The old man stepped onto our boat out of the utter blackness that falls between the abrupt fall of twilight, at five o’clock, and the rising of the full moon. His name was Phani Gayen, and he wa... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068500/ OPENINGS AND PREVIEWSPlease call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.BOEING-BOEINGChristine Baranski, Mark Rylance, Bradley Whitford, Gina Gershon, Kathryn H... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068501/ The last days of Grisha and Lera Arsenyev’s marriage might have been a story fashioned out of commonplace warnings. Retold, it was no longer about the Arsenyevs at all but about the ambushes tha... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068502/ In an interview with the London Observer several months ago, Geoff Barrow, the leader of the British trio Portishead, complained,“They turned our songs into a fondue set.”“They&#8221... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068503/ Airports are essentially machines for processing people, airplanes, automobiles, cargo, and luggage--all of which move in different ways, and which need to be connected at certain points and separated... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068504/ DENIS JOHNSONThe novelist reads from his latest work,“Tree of Smoke,” which recently won the National Book Award. (New School, 66 W. 12th St. No tickets necessary. April 16 at 6:30.)&#8220... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068505/ Gimlette has written a travelogue of a vanished place, the“great wheeled city” of more than two million American soldiers that rolled up from Marseilles in 1944 to meet the German Army. He... http://www.polare.com/news/click/-2,4068506/ This history of the Panama Canal describes the scheming, the speculating, and the backbreaking labor--performed mostly by West Indians, who bore the brunt of the estimated twenty-five thousand fatalit...