This week: Hendrik Hertzberg on the Supreme Court and medical marijuana (with a fabulous hed: "Watched Pot"); Rebecca Mead on Leonard Nimoy, photographer (I've seen some of these pictures!); David Remnick on Mike Tyson; Nick Paumgarten on Ry Cooder; Hanna Rosin, Jane Kramer, Alec Wilkinson ("The Crossing: Tackling the Pacific on a homemade raft"), J. M. Coetzee, Louis Menand, Hilton Als on “The Cherry Orchard" and “The Constant Wife"; Alex Ross on Philip Glass and scoring movies; Anthony Lane on “Bewitched,” “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” and “Yes"; a Seamus Heaney poem (hooray!), Eliza Griswold, and Robert Hass (“The Problem of Describing Trees”). Jim Surowiecki's Financial Page ("Cops and Robbers") also features Christoph Niemann's satisfying answer to the timeless question, "Who moved my cheese?"

In cartoonland, Liza Donnelly, Robert Mankoff, Alex Gregory, Carolita Johnson, C. Covert Darbyshire, Gahan Wilson, Jack Ziegler, Robert Weber, William Hamilton, Roz Chast, David Sipress, Drew Dernavich, Lee Lorenz, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Edward Koren, Mike Twohy, and Michael Crawford. (Here's a feature from 2004 about Dernavich, Carolita Johnson, Matt Diffee, Eric Lewis, Alex Gregory, Marisa Acocella, and other members of the magazine's younger-cartoonist generation.) Jacques de Loustal does les spots. Have any women done the whole-issue spots yet? Just curious. How about Maira Kalman? She's good with small details. The cover, "Dog’s Eye View," is by the magnificent Eric Drooker.

Jury's still out on the début fiction, 'cause I'm still reading it. Aren't you?