EDITORIALS

Crisis Managers; The New Jews?; Saying Thanks

COLUMNS

The Bombshell: 'Ice' Storm
By Nina Burleigh

Shrinking Brain: A Bad Man Is Easy To Find
By Kevin Baker

Up and Down the Street: The Humbling of Rajat Gupta
By Duff McDonald

Shindigger: Clip-Clop, Clippity-Clop
By Charlotte Lytton

FEATURES

Riding Out the Storm
From hibernation to evacuation, how New Yorkers spent the hurricane
By Observer Staff

On the Waterfront, There’s No Place Like Home
Bloomberg bristles as his waterfront development boom gets rained on
By Matt Chaban

Robbing Ryan to Pay Romney
Are the Ryan campaigns playing musical hotel rooms?
By Hunter Walker

The Toxic Avenger
Officials insist Gowanus Canal flooding is no cause for concern
By Hunter Walker

Stalking Sandy With Dr. Doom
The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore reaps the whirlwind
By Drew Grant

Escape to New York
As Sandy approached, some Manhattanites fled country homes for city sanctuaries
By Kim Velsey

THE TRANSOM

The Day After
By Colin Campbell

Rain or Shine
By Matt Chaban

In the Heights
By Kim Velsey

Make It Rain!
By Patrick Clark

BETABEAT

No Friend of Facebook
By Kelly Faircloth, Nitasha Tiku & Steve Huff

Sandy, Startup Style
By Jessica Roy

MANHATTAN TRANSFERS

Star Broker Ditches Loft
By Kim Velsey

No Laughing Matter
By Kim Velsey

One Bold Ask Inspires Another
By Kim Velsey

OFF THE RECORD

October Surprise
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

‘In the Papers,’ Sans Papers
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

The Fail Gale
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

ART & CULTURE

The Novel as Performance Art
The Constructed Realities of Chris Kraus, the Art World’s Favorite Fiction Writer
By Michael H. Miller

From Me to You
John Lennon’s letters show a thoughtful writer and a real curmudgeon
By John McMillian

Origin Stories
‘Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art’ and ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe’ at the Brooklyn Museum; ‘Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos’ and ‘Judith Berstein: HARD’ at the New Museum
By Maika Pollack

Mise en Abyme
Robert Lepage’s concept production of Thomas Adès’s Tempest at the Met disappoints
By Zachary Woolfe

Cruise Control
With a constant Denzel Washington and a reawakened Robert Zemeckis in the cockpit, Flight takes off and soars at full throttle
By Rex Reed

Water Shock
‘Eco-apocalyptic nail-biter’ takes tired found-footage horror concept to new depths
By Rex Reed

High-Strung
Performances are worthy of standing ovation, but story tends to play a little sharp
By Rex Reed

Flickers of Inspiration
The high-wattage narrative of Indo-Guyanese immigration overpowers writer-director Shundell Prasad’s transition from documentary to features
By Rex Reed

Hard Breaking News or Political Smut?
It's both!
By Ray LeMoine

Read All Over
At Sikkema Jenkins, Mark Bradford’s medium is the message; at Salon 94 Bowery, Jules de Balincourt is out at sea
By Andrew Russeth

Family Matters
Bad Jews is a sharp, succinct group portrait
By Jesse Oxfeld

The Eight-Day Week
By Daniel D'Addario

GALLERISTNY

Mr. Smith Goes to Manhattan
By Dan Duray

A Penetrating Discussion
By Andrew Russeth