| Damnation & praise | 2 |
| Mashed potatoes | 5 |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | 6 |
| Dionne, E.J. Jr. | |
| Waugh on the media: News from Florida and Ishmaelia | 7 |
| Baumann, Paul | |
| Toward a brainy church | 8 |
| Callahan, Sidney | |
| Medium | 9 |
| Warren, Deborah | |
| CAN JEWS TRUST CATHOLICS?: Moving beyond repentance to Teshuvah | 12 |
| Signer, Michael A. | |
| 1054 & ALL THAT | 15 |
| Ryan, Jerry | |
| Beam me up: A surprising bestseller | 17 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Take five: The documentary filmmaker who brought us "The Civil War" and "Baseball" turns his ear to America's most distinctive artistic achievement | 20 |
| Wren, Celia | |
| Einstein in Love | 22 |
| Overbye, Dennis & Raymo, Chet | |
| Orwell | 24 |
| Rodden, John & Meyers, Jeffrey | |
| Colors of the Mountain | 25 |
| Chen, Da & Clifford, Nicholas | |
| Religion booknotes | 26 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. | |
| A modest hope for Modesta | 31 |
| Quirk, Katie |
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