The foul reign of "self-reliance" / Benjamin Anastas
The crazy state of psychiatry / Marcia Angell
Edward Hopper and the geometry of despair / Geoffrey Bent
The good short life / Dudley Clendinen
Vanishing act / Paul Collins
Who are you and what are you doing here? / Mark Edmundson
Duh, bor-ing / Joseph Epstein
Farther away / Jonathan Franzen
Creation myth / Malcolm Gladwell
Objects of affection / Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
Getting schooled / Garret Keizer
My father/my husband / David J. Lawless
The accidental universe / Alan Lightman
The bitch is back / Sandra Tsing Loh
How doctors die / Ken Murray
Other women / Francine Prose
Humanism / Richard Sennett
Killing my body to save my mind / Lauren Slater
Outlaw / Jose Antonio Vargas
Paper tigers / Wesley Yang.