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November 22, 2010

Cover Story

The Gift Finder ’10

Our annual selection of the finest in Yule- and Hanukkah- and Kwanzaa-tide shopping options.

On the Cover: Photograph by Jenny van Sommers.

Features

James Frey’s Fiction Factory

The controversial author is hiring young writers to join him in a new publishing company. The goal is to produce the next Twilight.
Josephine and Langston and Malcolm

A Harlem album.
The School That Ate New York

By charm and brute force, NYU is planning to add 6 million square feet to its campus across the city. Is John Sexton the new Robert Moses?

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

’Melo Out

The Knicks are finally sticking to a smart long-term plan. A quick-fix trade is just what they don’t need.

Agenda

Oolong-Awaited Harney & Sons Shop Opens

This stretch of Soho has suddenly become a tea drinker’s destination in a coffee-obsessed town.

Strategist

Departments

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