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March 2001
Ten Hours, One Argument
Closed mid-February 2001 · On stands late February 2001
The Front
Field Notes: February
Valentine's Day flower-delivery volume nationwide, the going room rate for a Presidents' Day ski weekend, airfare deals bracketing the long holiday, the week's runway shows in Bryant Park
The Essay
The Untranslatable Distance
An essay-profile on W.G. Sebald's prose and its patient, documentary vertigo, commissioned months ahead of the English translation of Austerlitz
The Foreign File
The Buddhas' Sentence
The Taliban's supreme leader orders the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas as idolatrous, over the objections of foreign governments and archaeologists
The Feature Well
The City
The Back
Ten Hours, One Argument
Ken Burns's Jazz begins its ten-episode run on PBS
February Notices
Short reviews of the season's celebrity-chef cookbooks and a report on Fashion Week's turn toward minimalism