The New Yorker - Issue: 29; October 1 - 2007

TALK OF THE TOWN Hendrik Hertzberg on Hillary's health-care plan; Janet Reno; Indiana Jones's books. SHOUTS & MURMURS Proclivities Jeffrey Frank. LETTER FROM MOCOW The Tsar's Opponent David Remnick Garry Kasparov takes on Vladimir Putin. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS The Mannahatta Project Nick Paumgarten Re-creating the island of 1609. .. FICTION "The Insufferable Gaucho" Roberto Bolaño THE CRITICS: BOOKS Robert Alter's translation of the Psalms. James Wood CURRENT CINEMA "The Kingdom," "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford." Anthony Lane POEMS "Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit" Deborah Warren "Living" Jason Shinder COVER "Stairway to the Stars" Philippe Petit-Roulet DRAWINGS Drew Dernavich, Barbara Smaller, Charles Barsotti, P. C. Vey, Lee Lorenz, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Frank Cotham, Jack Ziegler, David Sipress, William Haefeli, Matthew Diffee SPOTS Anders Wenngren