The New Yorker, February 6, 2012 (Cover) "The Big Game" Letter From China; the Story of a Suicide + More

COMMENT Table Talk Obama's Iran problem. by Steve Coll THE TALK OF THE TOWN Cold War Tour Stanley Tucci and Tom Rob Smith on German TV. by Mark Singer Studio Visit Ellsworth Kelly's Albany studio. by Peter Schjeldahl Steamed Yoga gets hotter. by Ben McGrath Watch Party Young Professionals United for Change watch the State of the Union. by Lizzie Widdicombe PERSONAL HISTORY Flight of the Concord A pianist confronts the recording studio. by Jeremy Denk LETTER FROM CHINA Working Titles Best-sellers for a busy nation. by Leslie T. Chang SHOUTS & MURMURS Before The Movie Begins by Jacob Sager Weinstein A REPORTER AT LARGE The Story of a Suicide A gay freshman and the online world. by Ian Parker OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS Out of the Bronx When private equity bought the bakery. by Ian Frazier FICTION "Los Gigantes" by T. Coraghessan Boyle POP MUSIC Lana Del Rey's "Born to Die." by Sasha Frere-Jones BOOKS "The Orphan Master's Son." by Wyatt Mason "Threshold Songs," "Useless Landscape." by Dan Chiasson Briefly Noted: "Mr g"; "Hope: A Tragedy"; "The Lives of Margaret Fuller"; "Something Urgent I Have to Say to You" THE THEATRE "Wit," "Yosemite." by John Lahr