A weekly conversation about what's new in The New Yorker: Raffi Khatchadourian on illegal logging; Platon on photographing members of the military and their families; Adam Gopnik discusses the controversy behind Babar; Ariel Levy on Cindy McCain and the women of the 2008 election; Steve Coll on General David Petraeus; Nancy Franklin discusses the Beijing Olympics; the composer John Adams discusses his career; David Grann talks about the French con man Frederic Bourdin; Kelefa Sanneh discuss[...]