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• Alfred Portale's 12 Seasons Cookbook, Think Like a Chef, Simple to Spectacular 
  Sarah Lyall Dec. 18, 2000
  
• Dear Sisters 
  Katha Pollitt Dec. 5, 2000
  
• Niccolo's Smile, What Would Machiavelli Do? and Machiavelli on Modern Leadership 
  James Fallows Nov. 30, 2000
  
• An Invitation to the White House 
  Brent Staples Nov. 14, 2000
  
• Not Required for a Senator: Expertise in Entertaining 
  Sarah Lyall Nov. 14, 2000
  
• Cool, Calm, and Collected; Talking Dirty to the Gods; Collected Poems; Say Uncle 
  Katha Pollitt Nov. 7, 2000
  
• Move Closer 
  Katha Pollitt Oct. 23, 2000
  
• Bellow: A Biography 
  Brent Staples Oct. 16, 2000
  
• The Beatles Anthology 
  Christopher Caldwell Oct. 9, 2000
  
• When We Were Orphans 
  Christopher Caldwell Oct. 4, 2000
  
• A Selection of Books on Divorce 
  Katha Pollitt Sept. 25, 2000
  
• The Golden Age 
  Erik Tarloff Sept. 18, 2000
  
• Left Back and Ordinary Resurrections 
  Marjorie Williams Sept. 11, 2000
  
• The Year's Best Comic Books 
  Ruben Bolling Aug. 28, 2000
  
• Jew vs. Jew 
  Hanna Rosin Aug. 15, 2000
  
• The White Sharks 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 7, 2000
  
• From Dawn to Decadence 
  Andrew Delbanco July 31, 2000
  
• Kitchen Confidential 
  Amanda Hesser July 25, 2000
  
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 
  Judith Shulevitz July 11, 2000
  
• Becoming Madame Mao 
  Sarah Kerr June 26, 2000
  
• The "Left Behind" books 
  Michael Maudlin June 20, 2000
  
• Bowling Alone 
  Robert Putnam June 13, 2000
  
• The Unwanted Gaze 
  Declan McCullagh June 6, 2000
  
• Martin Amis' Experience 
  Inigo Thomas May 30, 2000
  
• American Pharaoh 
  May 22, 2000
  
• Wedding guides 
  Andrew ward May 8, 2000
  
• The Human Stain 
  Brent Staples April 25, 2000
  
• Bobos in Paradise 
  Rob Walker April 17, 2000
  
• Wild Decembers 
  Daphne Merkin April 11, 2000
  
• No headline 
  April 4, 2000
  
• Ravelstein 
  Christopher Caldwell April 4, 2000
  
• Government's End and The Paradox of American Democracy 
  March 20, 2000
  
• The Tipping Point 
  Edward Tenner March 13, 2000
  
• City of God 
  Kurt Andersen March 6, 2000
  
• Gertrude and Claudius 
  Paul Berman Feb. 28, 2000
  
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 
  Michael Hirschorn Feb. 21, 2000
  
• Books on New Israeli History 
  Tom Segev Feb. 7, 2000
  
• Nonzero 
  Robert Wright Feb. 1, 2000
  
• The Educated Child 
  Peggy Kaye Jan. 24, 2000
  
• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace 
  Lawrence Lessig Jan. 17, 2000
  
• No headline 
  Paul Berman Jan. 4, 2000
  
• What Are Journalists For? 
  James Ledbetter Jan. 3, 2000