Inside:
Jeffrey Goldberg, Annals of Spin: Selling Wal-Mart. The campaign to win over Democrats.
David Owen, Shouts & Murmurs: Passing
Jill Lepore, American Chronicles: Our Town. Jamestown at four hundred.
Bill Buford, Notes of a Gastronome: The Taming of the Chef. Gordon Ramsay cooks for New York.
Jane Kramer, Letter from Europe: The Pope and Islam. Benedict XVI's idea of interfaith dialogue.
Roddy Doyle, fiction: "Teaching."