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TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 262
TRACK 1
THREE POEMS BY MARTHA SERPAS The
New Yorker, September 12, 2005
HIGH WATER
by David Remnick, The New Yorker, October 3, 2005
TRACK 2
THE DEATH OF A CHAIR
by Doris Lessing, Granta, Summer 2005
LETTERS TO THE SOLID WASTE COMMISSIONER
by Calvin Trillin, The New York Times, August 14, 2005
WONDERFUL WORLD
by Nicholson Baker, Vanity Fair, October 2005
MONKEY BUSINESS
by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, The New York Times Magazine,
June 5, 2005
TRACK 3
THE NARROW JET
(fiction) by A.S. Byatt, The Paris Review, Spring 2005
TRACK 4
POWERING THE FUTURE
by Michael Parfit, National Geographic, August 2005
AFOOT ON THIS MOVABLE EARTH
(an essay) by William Kloefkorn, New Letters, Volume 71, No. 3, 2005
TRACK 5
SPEAKING OF SOUP
by Calvin Trillin,The New Yorker, September 5, 2005
FOOD, ANIMALS
(an essay) by Jeremy Jackson, The Missouri Review, Spring/Summer 2005
A VERY GOOD YEAR
by Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, September 26, 2005
TRACK 6
THE MAP OF US ALL
by Michael Shnayerson, National Geographic Adventure, August 2005
ODE TO THE ELEPHANT
(a poem) by Pablo Neruda, Ploughshares, Spring 2005
DRUG TESTING GOES OFFSHORE
by Abraham Lustgarten, Fortune, August 8, 2005
TRACK 7
THE ICE NURSERY
by Mariana Gosnell, Orion, September/October 2005
THE ROOM
(fiction) by William Trevor, The New Yorker, May 16, 2005
TRACK 8
WHAT IT TAKES: HARD SCIENCE
as told to McKenzie Funk, Natasha Singer and Eliza Griswold,
National Geographic Adventure, October 2005
HIGHER GROUND
by Pankaj Mishra, Travel & Leisure, October 2005