I'm still into the Dec. 1 issue. After fecal transplants (fascinating, as I said), I read the short story, which was OK even though it was set in Israel (though I didn't realize that until the end, and it probably has subtle political shadings to which I was oblivious). I'm usually kind of picky about foreign-set stories, as I've probably said, though I think the last New Yorker short story I read was set in Japan. Now I'm reading Nicholas Lehman's piece about books about Google's success and business-success books in general.