The New Yorker, Volume LXXXVII, No. 9, April 18, 2011: JOURNEYS (Cover) "Drawing While Waiting" |Hertzberg on Guantanamo; Surowiecki on the Price of Oil | Letter From Astana

COMMENT Prisoners The Guantánamo quagmire. by Hendrik Hertzberg THE TALK OF THE TOWN Visiting Dignitaries Donald Trump invests in the Caucasus. by Timothy Farrington Gone Missing Ai Weiwei and his art dealer, Larry Warsh. by Mark Singer Harvest Time James Taylor is honored at Carnegie Hall. by Adam Gopnik THE FINANCIAL PAGE Pumped Up? The oil-price panic. by James Surowiecki DEPT. OF TRAVEL The Grand Tour Chinese vacations in Europe. by Evan Osnos ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS Poles Apart Notes from an art pilgrimage. by Geoff Dyer OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS Thin Yellow Line An advocate for New York's cabbies. by Lizzie Widdicombe REFLECTIONS Farther Away "Robinson Crusoe" and the art of solitude. by Jonathan Franzen Read this story on Facebook, where it will be available for one week. LETTER FROM ASTANA Nowheresville Kazakhstan's shiny new capital. by Keith Gessen FICTION "A Withered Branch" by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya COMING TO AMERICA "Spry for Frying" by Lore Segal "Home, Strange Home" by Teju Cole "Vagabond Nation" by Azar Nafisi "Map Quest" by Gary Shteyngart "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Yiyun Li "Fatherland" by Kiran Desai THE THEATRE "Anything Goes." by Hilton Als BOOKS Briefly Noted: "The Piano Player in the Brothel"; "The Fear"; "When Tito Loved Clara"; "The Beauty of Humanity Movement." A CRITIC AT LARGE Freya Stark's Arabian adventures. by Claudia Roth Pierpont