Too Pig to Fail
Two new restaurants exploit our unseemly love affair with pork
By Joshua David Stein

EDITORIALS

Rebuilding a Region; Israel Defends Itself

COLUMNS

Shrinking Brain: Coney Baloney
By Kevin Baker

Shindigger: Ono She Didn't!
By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay

The Bombshell: Football's Big Fumble
By Nina Burleigh

FEATURES

Home Sweet Shipping Container
Too late for Sandy, city preps industrial chic disaster housing
By Matt Chaban

Going ... Going ... Still Here!
Some overpriced luxury homes languish on the market for six years—and counting
By Kim Velsey

The Story of 'No'
As S&M clubs proliferate on Ivy campuses, coercion becomes an issue
By Rachel R. White

THE TRANSOM

House of Mouse
By Drew Grant

Everybody Must Get Stoned
By Michael H. Miller

I Spy
By Daniel D'Addario

Fake Sale
By Kelly Faircloth

BETABEAT

Twitter Becomes a Weapon of War
By Jessica Roy

Loved and Lost
By Kelly Faircloth

Tyra, Super-Smized
By Nitasha Tiku

MANHATTAN TRANSFERS

Death of a Crazy Dream
By Kim Velsey

Cobble Hill Townhouse Crashes Record
By Kim Velsey

Old Masters in New Apartment
By Kim Velsey

OFF THE RECORD

Cosmo Cleans House
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Guild Negotiations End in Times Contract
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Thompson Death Watch Begins
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

ART & CULTURE

Exit Roth
After 50 years, Philip Roth calls it quits
By Jason Diamond

Shoeless Ray
Contemporary art's most obsessive perfectionist has a new show at Matthew Marks
By Andrew Russeth

No Show?
A court case about textbooks could have dire consequences for American museums
By Rozalia Jovanovic

Bienvenue Chez Nous
Cotillard returns to the comforts of French film for her best role since moving to Hollywood
By Rex Reed

Bradley’s Blitz
Cooper's continued growth as a serious actor the only silver lining in this convoluted Russell vehicle
By Rex Reed

Id, Ego and I
Gervasi's Hitchcock opens a rear window into the madman behind Psycho
By Rex Reed

Slowstagram
The Met reminds us that photography has always been a bag of tricks
By Will Heinrich

Northern Exposure
In a new story collection, Alice Munro goes back to Canada
By Carla Blumenkranz

Modern Families, and Unhappy Ones
A Christmas Story is a surprise gift, The Twenty-Seventh Man is brutal and poignant, Piano Lesson revival is perfectly in tune
By Jesse Oxfeld

KAWS Brings His 'Companion' Over for Thanksgiving
A former street artist hits the big time with a balloon in the Macy's parade
By Michael H. Miller

The Eight-Day Week
By Daniel D'Addario

GALLERISTNY

Fall Auction Wrap-Up
By Dan Duray