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2002

January	Selected Articles The trillion-dollar hustle: Hello Wall Street, goodbye social security By Thomas Frank Stumbling into battle By Michael Eliot Howard Fiction The new female head By Ben Marcus Poetry Opposed glimpse By Anne Carson
February	Selected Articles Unraveling the DNA myth: The spurious foundation of genetic engineering By Barry Commoner L'Esprit du terrorisme By Jean Baudrillard Fiction What we sell in the room today By J. David Stevens Ball peen By Antonya Nelson Poetry En état de mourir By Breyten Breytenbach
March	Selected Articles The middle mind By Curtis White They call me Doctor Love By Terry Gross Fiction Teen sniper By Adam Johnson Poetry Re: Housekeeping By Howard Wright
April	Selected Articles The numbing of the American mind: Culture as anesthetic By Thomas de Zengotita The idea of a local economy By Wendell Berry Fiction Visiting hours By Judy Budnitz Poetry Litany By Billy Collins
May	Selected Articles Should John Walker Lindh go free? On the rights of the detained By Edwin Dobb Dismantling leviathan By Donald W. Livingston Fiction The Apocalypse Museum By William H. Gass The skull By Joyce Carol Oates
June	Selected Articles This is the life By Annie Dillard Fiction Blind willow, sleeping girl By Haruki Murakami Poetry Horace and thunder By Seamus Heaney
July	Selected Articles Postmodern warfare: The ignorance of our warrior intellectuals By Stanley Eugene Fish The poverty of unbelief By Jonathan Rée Fiction Trash traders By Jane Avrich Big Bear, California By Rebecca Curtis
August	Selected Articles Making a killing: The myth of capital's good intentions By Ted C. Fishman The voice of the lonely crowd By Martin Amis Fiction Things you should know By A.M. Homes Coins By Mona Simpson
September	Selected Articles A year later: Notes of America's intimations of mortality By Mark Slouka Universal compassion By Natalia Ginzburg Fiction Baudolino tries his hand at writing By Umberto Eco Something for nothing By Tim Gautreaux
October	Selected Articles Horseman, pass by: Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown By John Jeremiah Sullivan The cow tipping point By David Ehrenfeld Fiction Two disagreeable pigeons By Patricia Highsmith Spanish prelude to a second marriage By John Updike
November	Selected Articles The age of white guilt: And the disappearance of the black individual By Shelby Steele Even the giant squid By Edward Hoagland Fiction Here comes By T. Coraghessan Boyle Poetry Response and reconciliation By Octavio Paz
December	Selected Articles The case for liberalism: A defense of the future against the past By George S. (George Stanley) McGovern The course of empire By David C. Hendrickson Fiction 1917 By Mary Swan All the trimmings By Mark Richard Poetry The hewers By Les A. Murray

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