The foul reign of "self-reliance" / Benjamin Anastas --
The crazy state of psychiatry / Marcia Angell --
You owe me / Miah Arnold --
Edward Hopper and the geometry of despair / Geoffrey Bent --
A beauty / Robert Boyers --
The good short life / Dudley Clendinen --
Vanishing act / Paul Collins --
Insatiable / Mark Doty --
Who are you and what are you doing here? / Mark Edmundson --
Duh, bor-ing / Joseph Epstein --
Farther away / Jonathan Franzen --
Creation myth / Malcolm Gladwell --
Dr. Don / Peter Hessler --
Objects of affection / Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough --
Getting schooled / Garret Keizer --
My father/my husband / David J. Lawless --
The accidental universe / Alan Lightman --
The bitch is back / Sandra Tsing Loh --
How doctors die / Ken Murray --
Other women / Francine Prose --
Humanism / Richard Sennett --
Killing my body to save my mind / Lauren Slater --
Outlaw / Jose Antonio Vargas --
Paper tigers / Wesley Yang.