The man the White House wakes up to / Mark Leibovich -- The runaway general / Michael Hastings -- Covert operations / Jane Mayer -- The Guantánamo "Suicides" / Scott Horton -- Letting go / Atul Gawande -- I want my prostate back / Laurence Roy Stains -- My bra's too tight and it's never too late / Paige Williams -- Joan Rivers always knew she was funny / Jonathan Van Meter -- Kanye West has a goblet / Jonah Weiner -- What's Your favorite war? and Why is Clint Eastwood still the man? and Why can't Kanye West shut the hell up? / Stephen Marche -- A boulevard called chagrin / Joe Posnanski -- Murder in Dubai and Peretz Agonistes / Marc Tracy -- Topic of Cancer and unanswerable prayers and Miss Manners and the Big C / Christopher Hitchens -- Mister Lytle: An essay / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- The physics of speed / William Giraldi -- Autism's first child / John Donvan and Caren Zucker -- The suicide catcher / Michael Paterniti -- Innocence lost and innocence found / Pamela Colloff -- Minor Watt / Paul Theroux -- Lines from the reports of the investigative committees / Joel Brouwer -- The end / Ben Ehrenreich -- For us surrender is out of the question / Mac McClelland -- From The shrine down the hall / Dexter Filkins -- Water is life / Barbara Kingsolver.