The New Yorker - Issue: 2; March 5 - 2007

TALKS OF THE TAWN David Remnick on Al Gore; reading Spalding Gray; restaurant beef. PERSONAL GISTORY Stage Motherhood Deborah Copaken Koga Making Sundance with an eleven-year-old. TURKISH JOURNAL The View Orhan Pamuk What is it like to be a dog? DEPARTMENT OF LAW INFORCEMENT Miami Blue Elsa Walsh The personal toll on a top cop. ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY The Redirection Seymour M. Hersh Does the new policy benefit the real enemy? PHOTOGRAPH Above Town Eugene de Salignac, Michelle Preston A REPORTER AT LARGE Spider Woman Burkhard Bilger Hunting venomous pests in L.A. FICTION "History of a Disturbance" Steven Millhauser A CRITIC AT LARGE David Denby The new non-narrative movies. THE ART WORLD Peter Schjeldahl Two Jeff Wall shows. MUSICAL EVENTS Alex Ross "Mahagonny," "The Grapes of Wrath." AT THE MUSEUM Simon Schama George Stubbs at the Frick. THE THEATRE John Lahr "Mary Rose," "Salvage." CURRENT CINEMA David Denby "Amazing Grace." POEMS "A Letter to Su T'ung Po" W. S. Merwin "Phone Booth" Brenda Hillman COVER Say Cheese Bruce McCall DRAWINGS Tom Cheney, Glen Le Lievre, Kim Warp, Harry Bliss, Paul Noth, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Sam Gross, P. C. Vey, William Haefeli, Michael Maslin, Drew Dernavich, Robert Mankoff, Zachary Kanin, Erik Hilgerdt SPOTS Philippe Petit-Roulet