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North Korea As leaders bicker
about summits, we glimpse life
inside a very strange place,
page 35. Pyongyang’s thriving
tailors, page 61
Corruption Governments in
Europe are catching up with
America in pursuing corporate
graft, page 56
Bartleby Introducing our new
column on the grievances and
gratifications of life at work,
page 57
An era passes A tribute to
Philip Roth, one of the great
post-war American novelists,
page 78. TomWolfe, chronicler
of class: Obituary, page 82
International
54 Economic statistics (1)
Don’t even ask
55 Economic statistics (2)
Data hierarchies
Business
56 Corporate graft in Europe
Cleaner living
57 Bartleby
Labour of love
58 Executives in America
Hitting pay dirt
59 Tesla
Plugging away
60 Gazprom in Europe
Out of the frying pan
60 Privacy and advertising
GDParrgh...
61 Tailors of Pyongyang
The fashion police
Finance and economics
62 Company audits
Great expectations gap
63 Buttonwood
The joy of Treasuries
64 Women and work
Never done
64 Kidnapping insurance
Market capture
65 Oil prices
The crude curve
66 Non-performing loans
Going south
66 Banking in America
Doddering on
67 Global warming
Carbonated market
67 Poverty and therapy
Mindful finances
68 Free exchange
All the people’s money
Science and technology
71 Childhood cancer
Germ theory
72 All creatures great
and small
Gotta count them all
72 Genetics
Stress test
73 Recycling plastic
Worm food
74 Shoemaking
A load of new cobblers
Books and arts
75 Satire in Zimbabwe
The last laugh
76 Johnson
Weasel words
77 The tragedy of Arnhem
Fallen heroes
77 American fiction
Inside the cage
78 A tribute to Philip Roth
Theatre of one
80 Economic and financial
indicators
Statistics on 42 economies,
plus a closer look at
trade-weighted exchange
rates
Obituary
82 Tom Wolfe
The man in the white suit