The Turn of the Year
Closed mid-December 2001 · On stands late December 2001
The Front
Index of the Turn
Area codes added nationwide, gas prices at the pump, what chains closed and what opened
On Language
'Dot-com' recedes from boast to punchline
The Essay
The Death of the Generalist
Newsroom and university alike now reward the specialist; an argument for the writer who knows a little about everything
The Foreign File
The Uses of Neutrality
On the quiet standing of the arbitration bodies nobody elected
The Feature Well
The Long Commute
A profile of an Amtrak conductor's cross-country route, start to end
Held Ground
A profile of a homeowners' association in a Phoenix subdivision, in its thirtieth year
The City
Subject: The co-op board minutes as a genre; a season inside one Upper West Side building
The Back
Books: Review essay on the year's debut novels · Art: Notes from the winter gallery openings · Film: The awards-season slate against its box office · Architecture: A Building for the Address — The Prada Epicenter opens at Broadway and Prince, Rem Koolhaas's building on the address of a landmark former gallery