2005-04-25, This Week In The New Yorker

THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT/ WITHOUT DELAY/ Hendrik Hertzberg on Tom DeLay's ethical and moral troubles.
HOUSEKEEPING/ ELLEN BARKIN AT HOME/ Lillian Ross visits the actress and society wife at her East Side town house.
THE CUTTING ROOM/ IN THE GARDEN/ David Blum on the controversy over a new documentary about Madison Square Garden.
THE PICTURES/ A KIM JONG IL PRODUCTION/ Michael Shapiro on a Korean monster movie.

NEW YORK JOURNAL/ Rebecca Mead/ Mr. Brooklyn/ A borough president with a big plan.
SHOUTS & MURMURS/ Paul Rudnick/ My Living Will
ANNALS OF HISTORY/ Ian Frazier/ Invaders/ The destruction of Baghdad [not yet online]
ANNALS OF SCIENCE Elizabeth Kolbert/ The Climate of ManóI/ In the first of three articles, a report from the Arctic on the realities of global warming.
REFLECTIONS Philip Roth/ "I Got a Scheme!"/ In letters and conversations, Saul Bellow recalled how he came to write his early novels.
THE CRITICS
BOOKS/ Adam Gopnik/ John Brown's Body/ A new biography restores Brown's centrality to the Civil War.
THE THEATRE/ Hilton Als/ Tears Before Bedtime/ Martin McDonagh's perverse twist on the children's story.
THE CURRENT CINEMA/ Anthony Lane/ In Translation"The Interpreter" and "The Best of Youth."