- G-strings and Ph.D.s
- The Fix
- “P” by Andrew Lewis Conn
- Can Bush be toppled?
- “The War of the Flowers” by Tad Williams
- “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon
- “Hell at the Breech” by Tom Franklin
- “Bangkok 8” by John Burdett
- What to read
- Letters
- Open and shut
- The plot to kill Social Security
- Joe Conason’s Journal
- Reality rapture
- The bookworm and the Viking
- Absolute power corrupts
- Black like me — but not too black
