His personality alone has been begging for a New Yorker profile for some time, but now that he's become chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services during the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, Barney Frank is practically required writing.

And voila, currently making the political rounds: a new Jeffrey Toobin profile of Frank in the current New Yorker. Required reading, if only for word on the title of a forthcoming Frank biography: Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman.