MER
September 2000
What a State Can Do
Closed mid-August 2000 · On stands late August 2000
The Front
Index of the Turned Season
Back-to-school ad pages, the last beach-house rentals, the year's harvest of state legislative sessions closing
On the Word 'Reality'
A genre name graduating from tabloid television to a category the trade press now takes seriously
The Essay
The First Line of Statute
Vermont's civil-unions law takes effect
The Foreign File
The End of Seventy-One Years
Vicente Fox's election victory ends the Institutional Revolutionary Party's seven-decade hold on the presidency
The Feature Well
The Diary Nobody Locked
A profile treating a handful of personal web diarists as a literary form in embryo, argued straight rather than as internet novelty — Nora's wager that the form outlives the platform
The Back
Books: James Wood coins "hysterical realism" reviewing Zadie Smith's White Teeth · Art: null · Film: null