They want to revive an awareness of what the Algonquin Indians, intimate with its power, called michi-sipi, the Big Water.

ECONOMIST: Cities and rivers

He brings together a tangy array of people whose place in the economy is sketched as clearly as their place in the chain of affections, and gets at the power relations that the most intimate connections depend on.

NEWYORKER: Beeswax

We mostly see Mandela at work, exerting power gracefully and compassionately, and there are no intimate revelations and no ambiguities or ironies.

NEWYORKER: Invictus