The New Yorker: In the Magazine

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	Issue of 2004-08-09 Posted 2004-08-02



	Kerry’s big party in Boston.

Adam Green	Standup for the Lord The career of a Christian comedian.

Andy Borowitz	New Year’s Resolutions, Seven Months Later

Roger Angell	Getting There A young man, a woman, and a golf course.

Margaret Talbot	The Bad Mother Why are so many women who seek care for their children being accused of harming them?

Dan Baum	Two Soldiers The last journey home.

George Saunders	“Adams”

	“Adams”

Louis Menand	Michael Moore and the art of documentary.

	Briefly Noted

Hilton Als	“After the Fall,” “The Frogs.”

Sasha Frere-Jones	The Streets and Dizzee Rascal. Photograph by Richard Avedon.

Alex Ross	“Parsifal” at Bayreuth.

David Denby	“Collateral,” “The Bourne Supremacy,” “The Manchurian Candidate.”

Cleopatra Mathis Wislawa Szymborska	“Stanley’s First Death” “The Kindness of the Blind”

Christoph Niemann	“Modern Olympics”

Roz Chast	“Trust”

	Robert Mankoff, Matthew Diffee, Charles Barsotti, Christopher Weyant, Alex Gregory, Edward Koren, David Sipress, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Frank Cotham, Jack Ziegler, Michael Maslin, Lee Lorenz, Danny Shanahan, William Hamilton, William Haefeli, Leo Cullum, Tom Cheney, Mick Stevens, Barbara Smaller