The New Yorker - Issue: 30; October 8 - 2007

TALK OF THE TOWN Steve Coll on the Jena Six President Ahmadinejad's visit; James Surowiecki on dollar doldrums.. ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY Shifting Targets Seymour M. Hersh The White House redefines the Iran threat. . A REPORTER AT LARG Our Man in Pyongyang Rebecca Mead Kim Jong Il's go-to guy. . ONWARD & UPWARD WITH ARTS Experimental Journey Jane Kramer Elizabeth LeCompte's "Hamlet.". PROFILES The Shadow Act Hilton Als A Kara Walker retrospective .. FICTION "Married Love" Tessa Hadley THE CRITICS: BOOKS Julie Kavanagh's "Nureyev: The Life." Joan Acocella CURRENT CINEMA "Michael Clayton," "Into the Wild." David Denby POEMS "Karmelicka" Adam Zagajewski "Handymen" Cornelius Eady COVER "Narrow Stance" Barry Blitt DRAWINGS P. S. Mueller, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Charles Barsotti, Alex Gregory, Jack Ziegler, Robert Leighton, William Haefeli, P. C. Vey, Roz Chast, Barbara Smaller, Matthew Diffee, Gahan Wilson, Drew Dernavich, Carolita Johnson, Frank Cotham, Edward Koren, Michael Maslin, J. Dator SPOTS Benoît van Innis