The New Yorker, Volume LXXXVI, No. 25 September 13, 2010 (Cover) "Beasts of Burden" / A Cruel Country // The Uranium Widows // The Mastermind: Who is Khalid Shekh Mohammed?

Iraq's Cost A war reckoning. by Hendrik Hertzberg JOURNALS A Cruel Country Learning to mourn. by Roland Barthes SHOUTS & MURMURS The Best of My Worst Thoughts by Sarah Paley LETTER FROM COLORADO The Uranium Widows A bid to revive a controversial industry. by Peter Hessler Video: Hessler talks about his visit to the former site of Uravan, Colorado. A REPORTER AT LARGE The Mastermind Who is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? by Terry McDermott Slide Show: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's letters from Guantánamo. THE POLITICAL SCENE Frat House for Jesus The Fellowship and C Street. by Peter J. Boyer 20 UNDER 40 ? FICTION "The Landlord" by Wells Tower Read a Q. & A. with Wells Tower. BOOKS Tony Blair's "A Journey." by John Lanchester Briefly Noted: "My Hollywood"; "The Clouds Beneath the Sun"; "The Great Divorce"; "The Pain Chronicles." A CRITIC AT LARGE The real power of positive thinking. by Kelefa Sanneh MUSICAL EVENTS Alban Berg, at Bard. by Alex Ross THE CURRENT CINEMA "The American"; "Heartbreaker"; "Hideaway." by David Denby POEMS "The Real Thing" by Rachel Galvin "From 'Broom' " by Giacomo Leopardi Jacques Tati's "My Uncle," at Film Forum. by Richard Brody Fucked Up, at Maxwell's. by Sasha Frere-Jones CLASSICAL NOTES Miller Time by Russell Platt TABLES FOR TWO Lina Frey by Lila Byock GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN The Theatre Night Life Art Dance Classical Music Movies Readings and Talks Above and Beyond Horizon THE MAIL John McFadden; Stephen Conn; Robert Etherington; Kathryn Bruce "Beasts of Burden" by Peter DèSeve DRAWINGS Ariel Molvig, Paul Noth, Harry Bliss, Tom Hatchman, Barbara Smaller, Jason Patterson, Carolita Johnson, Roz Chast, Robert Leighton, Jack Ziegler, Michael Maslin, Gahan Wilson, Mark Thompson, Mick Stevens, Drew Dernavich SPOTS Philippe Weisbecker