January 2003 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- 77 North Washington Street, pp. 12-15
- Letters to the Editor, pp. 16-25
- Innocent Bystander
  Cullen Murphy
  , pp. 26-30
  Back to Square One
- What Now?
  Michael Kelly
  , pp. 31-33
- The Elephantiasis of Reason
  David Brooks
  , pp. 34-35
- Blue Move
  Thomas Byrne Edsall
  , pp. 36-37
- Primary Sources , pp. 38-41
- Does Money Buy Happiness?
  Don Peck and Ross Douthat
  , pp. 42-43
- The Louse is in the House
  P.J. O'Rourke
  , pp. 44-48
- Overheard
  John Cuneo
  , pp. 49-50
- In Defense of Michael Skakel
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  , pp. 51-74
- Introduction, pp. 75-77
- The Forgotten Home Front
  James Fallows
  , pp. 78-81
- Suspicious Minds
  Jedediah Purdy
  , pp. 82-85
- The New Continental Divide
  Michael Lind
  , pp. 86-88
- The Overtreated American
  Shannon Brownlee
  , pp. 89-90
- The $6,000 Solution
  Ray Boshara
  , pp. 91-94
- Mongrel America
  Gregory Rodriguez
  , pp. 95-96
- Catch and Release
  Margaret Talbot
  , pp. 97-101
- Spendthrift Nation
  Michael Calabrese and Maya MacGuineas
  , pp. 102-106
- The Black Gender Gap
  Katherine Boo
  , pp. 107-108
- One-Dimensional Growth
  David Friedman
  , pp. 109-110
- The Parent Trap
  Karen Kornbluh
  , pp. 111-114
- The Grand Compromise
  James P. Pinkerton
  , pp. 115-116
- The Fuel Subsidy We Need
  Ricardo Bayon
  , pp. 117-118
- Taking Stock
  Jonathan Rauch
  , pp. 119-122
- The American Paradox
  Ted Halstead
  , pp. 123-126
- Floor Time
  Patricia Stacey
  , pp. 127-134
- Sex Week at Yale
  Ron Rosenbaum
  , pp. 135-141
- Literary Lives: Marcel Proust
  Edward Sorel
  , pp. 142-146
  A drawing
- Happy Hour
  Alison Baker
  , pp. 147-149
  A short story
- Poem
  Robert Wrigley
  , pp. 150-151
- Poem
  Henri Cole
  , pp. 152-153
- Poem
  Gardner McFall
  , pp. 154-166
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  --- by Benjamin Schwarz (Review) , p. 167
  1. The Argentina Reader by Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo
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  Literary Studies The Collection, by Peter Ackroyd (3 Reviews) , p. 168
  1. The Collection by Peter Ackroyd
  2. Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill
  3. Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford
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  History The Lewis and Clark Journals, by Gary E. Moult... (3 Reviews) , p. 169
  1. The Lewis and Clark Journals by Gary E. Moulton, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark, ...
  2. Alexander Hamilton by Willard Sterne Randall
  3. Gin by Patrick Dillon
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  Current Affairs U.S. National Defense for the Twenty-First Cen... (2 Reviews) , pp. 169-170
  1. U.S. National Defense for the Twenty-First Century by Edward A. Olsen
  2. The Russia Hand by Strobe Talbott
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  The Wifely Duty (8 Reviews)
  Caitlin Flanagan
  , pp. 171-181
  An essay on books about sex in marriage
  1. I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
  2. The Sex-Starved Marriage by Michele Weiner Davis
  3. The Total Woman by Marabel Morgan
  4. For Women Only by Jennifer Berman and Laura Berman
  5. Motherhood and Hollywood by Patricia Heaton
  6. I'm Not in the Mood by Judith Reichman
  7. Okay, So I Don't Have a Headache by Christina Ferrare
  8. The Bitch in the House by Cathi Hanauer
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  The Wartime Toll on Germany (Review)
  Christopher Hitchens
  , pp. 182-189
  On the Natural History of Destruction, by W.G. Sebald
  1. On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald
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  Going to Extremes (2 Reviews)
  Thomas Mallon
  , pp. 190-193
  The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers
  1. The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
  2. A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
- Travels: The Road to Herat
  Elizabeth Rubin
  , pp. 194-204
- Palate at Large: Stuffed Smoked Sablefish
  Corby Kummer
  , pp. 205-206
- The Puzzler
  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  , p. 207
- Word Court
  Barbara Wallraff
  , pp. 208-210