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October 2001
The Season's Arguments
Closed mid-September 2001 · On stands late September 2001
The Front
Field Notes: September
The first cool morning across the Midwest, back-to-school traffic nationwide, the last county fairs closing out the circuit, the September issues' record ad-page counts at the fashion glossies
The Essay
The Cycle That Ate the Summer
An essay on the culture of scandal journalism and the cable-news attention cycle, taking the summer's Levy-Condit coverage as one case among several rather than its own feature
The Foreign File
The Durban Walkout
The UN World Conference against Racism closes after the U.S. and Israeli delegations walk out over language on Zionism; the conference's other business is buried under the dispute
The Feature Well
The City
The Back
The Season's Arguments
The season's cultural conversation — The Sopranos' third season, Franzen's The Corrections, the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack