The New Yorker - Issue: 36; November 19 - 2007

TALK OF THE TOWN Steve Coll on Pakistan's crisis James Surowiecki on the writers' strike. LETTERS FROM PARIS Laugh Riots Tom Reiss The rise of a celebrity anti-Semite.. SHOUTS & MURMURS Why We Strike Larry Doyle MEDICAL DISPATCH Small and Thin Stephen S. Hall The battle over low birth weight.. LETTER FROM IRAQ Inside the Surge Jon Lee Anderson The United States' unlikely new allies. UPWARD & ONWARD WITH THE ARTS The Player Kings Claudia Roth Pierpont Welles and Olivier take on Shakespeare. FICTION "Or Else" Antonya Nelson THE CRITICS: BOOKS Poetry collections from Mark Strand and Robert Hass. Dan Chiasson CURRENT CINEMA "Redacted," "Love in the Time of Cholera," "Margot at the Wedding." David Denby THE THEATRE "Young Frankenstein," "Peter and Jerry." John Lahr POEMS "Cloudberries" Michael Longley "Visiting the Library in a Strange City" Franz Wright COVER "Autumn Tales" Benoît van Innis DRAWINGS Kim Warp, Frank Cotham, Danny Shanahan, Robert Mankoff, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Leo Cullum, Alex Gregory, Michael Crawford, William Hamilton, Michael Maslin, Jack Ziegler, Sam Gross, Zachary Kanin SPOTS Anders Wenngren