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• Christ 
  Katha Pollitt Dec. 18, 2001
  
• The Lord of the Rings 
  Sarah Lyall Dec. 10, 2001
  
• Rainbow's End 
  Nell Minow Dec. 4, 2001
  
• The Sept. 11 Canon: Week 2 
  Judith Shulevitz Nov. 12, 2001
  
• The Sept. 11 Canon: Week 1 
  Judith Shulevitz Nov. 6, 2001
  
• Mary Shelley 
  Nell Minow Oct. 29, 2001
  
• Stories and Poems for Highly Intelligent Children of All Ages 
  Oct. 24, 2001
  
• President Nixon: Alone in the White House 
  Oct. 15, 2001
  
• Erasure 
  Erik Tarloff Oct. 1, 2001
  
• The Corrections 
  Judith Shulevitz Sept. 19, 2001
  
• David Halberstam's breathless, deathless prose. 
  Sept. 4, 2001
  
• Being Good 
  Debra Dickerson Aug. 6, 2001
  
• Blue Diary 
  Katha Pollitt July 23, 2001
  
• Waging Modern War 
  July 17, 2001
  
• Thinks ... 
  Timothy Noah June 26, 2001
  
• The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression 
  James Fallows June 20, 2001
  
• Positively 4th Street 
  Erik Tarloff June 12, 2001
  
• Not in Front of the Children 
  Katha Pollitt June 5, 2001
  
• The Metaphysical Club 
  James Fallows May 30, 2001
  
• Back When We Were Grownups 
  Erik Tarloff May 23, 2001
  
• Listening to Classic American Popular Songs and Reading Lyrics 
  Christopher Caldwell May 1, 2001
  
• Double Fold 
  James Fallows April 18, 2001
  
• Dreamcatcher 
  Sarah Lyall April 4, 2001
  
• The Life of Samuel Johnson 
  Sarah Lyall March 19, 2001
  
• Anna Karenina 
  Christopher Caldwell March 13, 2001
  
• The Man Who Loved Children 
  Marjorie Williams March 7, 2001
  
• Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for the AIDS Vaccine 
  James Fallows Feb. 27, 2001
  
• The Body Artist 
  A.O. Scott Feb. 19, 2001
  
• Looking Good, The Adonis Complex, and The Vagina Monologues 
  Jodi Kantor Feb. 12, 2001
  
• Fast Food Nation 
  Katha Pollitt Feb. 5, 2001
  
• Call If You Need Me and Demonology 
  A.O. Scott Jan. 29, 2001
  
• The Constant Gardener 
  Marjorie Williams Jan. 15, 2001
  
• Constantine's Sword and Papal Sin 
  Erik Tarloff Jan. 8, 2001