n+1, No. 2: Happiness

HAPPINESS, Elif Batuman's "Babel in California"; Benjamin Kunkel on J. M. Coetzee; Mark Greif's "Meaning of Life"; Keith Gessen's "Vice-President's Daughter"; Marco Roth's "Last Cigarettes," George Scialabba's "Farewell, Hitch," Rachel Sherman's "The Reaper." Plus Alexander Kluge.