Contributors

Contributing editors Leslie and Andrew Cockburn have covered the Irish Troubles since the early 1970s, "when Derry was a blackened ruin." An Irish-American couple—he is Irish, she is American—they traveled between Massachusetts and Derry for their report this month.

David Edelstein is a former film critic for the New York Post and The Village Voice. His new play, Blaming Mom, opens at Manhattan's Watermark Theater this month.

Ed Kashi says traveling with Christopher Hitchens is like having a library on the next barstool. His photographs from When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds will be exhibited this month in New York.

Contributing editor Kim Masters, who wrote about headaches at Sony in April, covers the heartache at the Walt Disney Company this month.

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Aileen Mehle writes her "Suzy" column for Women's Wear Daily and W magazine.

Special correspondent Maureen Orth interviewed more than 70 people for her profile of California congressman—and Senate hopeful—Michael Huffington and his wife, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. "She makes Hillary Clinton look like Pat Nixon," says Orth. "She's a latter-day Aimee Semple McPherson, and he is learning at her knee."

Kevin Sessums profiled Tom Cruise for the October issue.

Liz Smith, who has been called the premier gossip columnist in America, knew and observed the previous holder of that title, Walter Winchell, during the last decade of his reign. This month, she takes note of a new biography that recaptures Winchell's era.