New York Magazine: May 16, 2011 Issue

Table of Contents

May 16, 2011

Cover Story

Paper Tigers

What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? By Wesley Yang

On the Cover: Wesley Yang. Photograph by Marco Grob for New York Magazine.

Features

‘You Never Forget That First Taste of War’

The deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Misurata, Libya, devastated the community of their peers back in the States.
The Story of V

Justin Vivian Bond found downtown fame as Kiki DuRane, decrepit drag chanteuse and comedic prophet of gay rage born out of the AIDS era.

Intelligencer

Feature Article

42 Minutes With Harry Shearer

As the Mississippi rises, the man of many funny voices talks about his dead-serious documentary on the Army Corps of Engineers.

Departments

Columns

The Obama Spring

The shots in Abbottabad were heard round the world. But will they still be heard in 2012?

Culture

Strategist

Agenda

American and French Fromage to Peacefully Cohabit

There is no surer measure of Anne Saxelby’s ascendancy than her recruitment by Daniel Boulud.