The New Yorker - Issue: 26; September 3 - 2007

TALK OF THE TOWN Steve Coll on the Petraeus code; night-club art;Blue Man education. ON & OFF THE AVENUE Hot Flashes Patricia Marx Clothes for the cold. . A NEUROLOGIST NOTEBOOK The Abyss Oliver Sacks The most extreme amnesia. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS The Enthusiast Dana Goodyear Where downtown lives forever. .. FICTION "The Maserati Years" Maxim Biller ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY Solar Chic Henry Alford The rechargeable jacket. ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS The Surrealists' Muse Francine du Plessix Gray Paris's patroness of the outrageous.. THE CRITICS: BOOKS Briefly Noted PROFILES Mondo Donatella Lauren Collins Carrying on the Versace label. CURRENT CINEMA "In the Valley of Elah." David Denb THE ART WORLD J. M. W. Turner at the National Gallery. Simon Schama POEMS "On a Passenger Ferry" Jean Valentine "Resignation" J. D. McClatchy "Not for Chopin" Arda Collins COVER "There Goes the Neighborhood" Bruce McCall DRAWINGS Frank Cotham, Tom Cheney, Mick Stevens, Paul Noth, Edward Koren, Robert Leighton, Danny Shanahan, Glen Le Lievre, Marshall Hopkins, Roz Chast, David Borchart, Victoria Roberts, William Haefeli. Jack Ziegler, David Sipress, Bruce Eric Kaplan, William Hamilton, Drew Dernavich, Matthew Diffee, P. C. Vey, Carolita Johnson SPOTS Philippe Petit-Roulet