- What to read in May
 - Bass out of space race?
 - Give it away now
 - The week in dirt
 - Letters: But we love “Star Wars”!
 - Literary Daybook, May 23
 - Nina lives
 - Since You Asked: “Whose Baby Is It?”
 - “Lock Up the Analysts and Throw Away the Key”
 - The mysterious bombing of an environmental activist
 - A prescription for disaster
 - The gay Babe Ruth
 - U.S. was warned that Moussaoui had close ties to al-Qaida, analyst says
 - Will John Ashcroft really probe Florida’s voter purge lists?
 - “Lucky in the Corner” by Carol Anshaw
 - “The City of Your Final Destination” by Peter Cameron
 - “The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits” by Emma Donoghue
 - “Unless” by Carol Shields
 - Ashcroft knew