New York Magazine: September 24, 2012 Issue

Table of Contents

September 24, 2012

Cover Story

Cheating Upwards

At Stuyvesant High School, college admissions and future success seem to ride on every test score. By Robert Kolker

On the Cover: Photograph by PeterHapak for New YorkMagazine.

Features

My Embed in Red

During the GOP convention, the mainstream media told the story of a unified party rallying around its candidate.

By Frank Rich
Hope in Brokeland

Michael Chabon’s latest novel, Telegraph Avenue, is packed with lowbrow Americana, high-minded empathy, and loads of literary chutzpah.

By Kathryn Schulz
We’re Going to Take Over F—ing Hollywood

John Gotti Jr. had walked away from the Mafia. But when he tried to sell a movie about his father, he found that Tinseltown could be a rough place.

By Steve Fishman

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Don’t Say “Desperate”

Muslim unrest has created a challenge for Obama and the nation—and a different kind of crisis for the Romney campaign.

Agenda

A Tomato That Fights Free Radicals

A striking new purple variety called Indigo Rose.

Strategist

Departments