- Day of the dead
- “Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts” by Roald Dahl
- “The Matrix and Philosophy” by William Irwin, ed.
- Boom! Now you’ve got something!
- Bestsellers
- Bold words from a wobbly man
- The week in dirt
- Joe Conason’s Journal
- Said the spider to the fried
- Yes, I bid on Abe Lincoln’s hair
- “El Crimen del Padre Amaro”
- Literary daybook, Dec. 5
- No children allowed
- Screenage wasteland?
- Panicked in Rome
- The day Henry Kissinger cried
- Ice, ice, baby
- “The Soldier’s Return” by Melvyn Bragg
- “The Seven Sisters” by Margaret Drabble
- “A Whistling Woman” by A.S. Byatt
- “Child of My Heart” by Alice McDermott
- “All Is Vanity” by Christina Schwarz
