In this issue
Edition: Asia
Vol. 176, No. 8

COVER
Jonathan Franzen: The Wide Shot (Profile)
By LEV GROSSMAN
At a time when the trend in fiction has been toward specialization, the author
of The Corrections and the new Freedom is a devotee of the wide shot, the
all-embracing, way-we-live-now novel

GLOBAL BUSINESS
Brazil's Start-Up Generation (Technology)
By LORI IOANNOU / SÃO PAULO
Getting funded can be a torture test. Maybe that's why its entrepreneurs are so
adept

Danone's Cheap Trick (Corporate Conscience)
By BARBARA KIVIAT
Figuring out how to make a nutritious yogurt for poor kids yielded unexpected
benefits

ARTS
Charlie Chan: Watching the Detective (Books)
By PICO IYER
Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan study is a Chinese look at how America has looked at
China

WORLD
Pakistan Floods: In Deep Water
By OMAR WARAICH / ISLAMABAD
Pakistan's slow and weak response to its disastrous floods might be the moment
hard-line Islamists have been waiting for

Cleaning Up Sumo
By HANNAH BEECH / SAITAMA SAKAE
Racked by scandal and an influx of foreign competitors, can Japan's most
traditional sport keep up with the times?

GLOBAL ADVISER
Hang Loose at Komune Resort and Spa (Check In)
By PHIL BROWN
Commune with Australia's surf set at this hip Gold Coast hideaway

Get Lost in Tokyo's Design Festa Gallery (Next Time You're in ... Tokyo)
By ROB GOSS
The Harajuku exhibition space lets young artists' imaginations take over

Visit the Quebecois Beaver (TIME Traveler)
By HILLARY BRENHOUSE
Veer off the whale trail and take a tour of the Tadoussac forests

Tour the San Andreas Fault (Diversions)
By MATTHEW LINK
California's Elite Land Tours takes you to the epicenter