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April 9, 2001

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From the Issue

A Reporter at Large

After Welfare

By Katherine Boo

Poems

The Sea Comes In Like Nothing But the Sea

By Glyn Maxwell

Personal History

The Baseball Writer

A son goes back to spring training to find his father.

By Bill Bryson

The Current Cinema

Still Hungry

By David Denby

Q. & A.

A Better Mother

Comment

The Story of Us All

By Adam Gopnik

Dept. of Double Lives

The Soap Nurse

By Joshua Gamson

Briefly Noted

Walking the Bible

The Financial Page

A Basket Case

By James Surowiecki

Briefly Noted

Hollow City

Tables for Two

Bayou

By Matt Dellinger

Fiction

The God of Dark Laughter

By Michael Chabon

Books

Atlas Shrugs

By Nicholas Lemann

Briefly Noted

Faithless

Musical Events

Casino Royale

By Alex Ross

Dept. of Big Thoughts

The 1845th

By Lillian Ross

U.S. Journal

Dirty Laundry

By Mark Singer

Postscript

Mischa Richter

By Lee Lorenz

Briefly Noted

Coming Back to Me

Pop Notes

The Trouble Inside

By John Donohue

Off Broadway

How to Get Ahead in Comedy

By David Blum

The Theatre

Bloodsucker’s Ball

By John Lahr

Briefly Noted

Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History

Profiles

Tokyo Story

By John Nathan

Poems

Silence, with Two Texts

By Sharon Olds