The Best American Magazine Writing 2000

Contents:

Nick Nolte is racing the clock to repair the damage/ Daniel Voll —
The Ring leader/ Frank Deford —
No one knows what could be happening to those kids/ Skip Hollandsworth —
The Demon in the freezer/ Richard Preston —
Clock of ages/ Brian Hayes —
Digibabble,fairy dust, and the human anthill/ Tom Wolfe —
The barber’s unhappiness/ George Saunders —
Dominion/ Robert Stone —
The third and final continent/ Jhumpa Lahiri —
Moment of truth/ Gary Smith —
Madness visible/ Janine di Giovanni —
The forensics of war/ Sebastian Junger —
And the Leni Riefenstahl award for rabid nationalism goes to…/ Tom Carson —
The last great movie of the century/ Tom Carson —
The man in the mirror:The enduring confessions and unmatched hedonism of Andre Gide/ Anthony Lane Waugh in pieces:cruelty and compassion mingle in the short stories of a master/ Anthony Lane —
The rape of Dinah:human rights, civil war in Liberia, and evil triumphant/ Kenneth L. Cain.