The Current is back at it with their Fall issue.  We’ll save you time by getting to the good stuff.

A report card for PrezBo’s report card.

A giglio — or seven-story, five-ton papier-mâché statue — grows in Brooklyn.

Beijing: practically Columbia-esque in its bureaucratic character!

Roth, Foer and Chabon: different approaches to Jewishness and sexuality, and Jewish sexual identity.

A Moscow ChurchHop: Yushchenko vs. Putin!  Bishop Diomid of Chukotka vs. Alexy II! And miracles, of the Islamic and Christian varieties!