Double anniversary issue it may be, but it was beginning to seem as though the New Yorker had "nothing" in it. I was wrong, though. I enjoyed the way the Reverend Al played the reporter and did learn about more about his earlier days than I'd read elsewhere. Also worth reading was the reminiscence of his father by John Le Carre/David Conford. Shades of The Duke of Deception. Scam artists fool themselves perhaps even more than they fool others.