New York calls itself the capital of the world, and unlike some of the city’s claims to greatness, this one has the ring of truth: If something is happening out there, chances are it’s affecting someone right here. In this issue, a kind of international edition, we asked fellow New Yorkers if we could excerpt their texts and e-mails and conversations with friends and family in the Middle East and North Africa. We conducted global sidewalk polls, followed worried diplomats, and commissioned a graphic dispatch on life in shell-shocked Tokyo.
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Tokyo, a Homecoming- A graphic-novel account of one man’s return to Japan after the horror.
The Ambassador of Nowhere- A suddenly itinerant Yemeni diplomat learns about cheap lunches and subway fares with a clear conscience.
Global Research- Polls conducted in Beirut, Tokyo, Rome, and Greenwich Village.
The Cult of Arrested Development
Michael Douglas on Playing Liberace 
Richard Linklater's Nine-Year Itch
The Multiple Locations of Hopper's Nighthawks
A Crawl Through the City's Newest Bars
Look Book: Nora Fitzpatrick, Public-Service Executive 
Adam Platt on Montmartre
Ribalta’s Pizza Makeover
April Showers Bring May Vines
114 Minutes With Jumaane Williams
How Anthony Weiner Could Win the Mayoral Race
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