- A post-9/11 American nightmare
- Joe Conason’s Journal
- “Tourmaline” by Joanna Scott
- “The Book of Illusions” by Paul Auster
- “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The big NEA-Sept. 11 lie
- An open letter to the leaders of the environmental movement
- Don’t watch, don’t listen
- Literary daybook, Sept. 5
- Climate of terror
- Math = beauty + truth / (really hard)
- Paralyzed by perfection
- Any given Thursday
- Clean-shaven carnality
- Isn’t it Rich?
- The armchair general
- Party like it’s 1988
- The return of voodoo economics
- What to read in September
- “One Man’s Bible” by Gao Xingjian
- “The Autograph Man” by Zadie Smith
- “Things You Should Know” by A.M. Homes
- “After the Quake” by Haruki Murakami
- Tribal Area dance
