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This is interesting to revisit. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/24/tuesday-and-after-talk-of-the-town
Updike at the top, with a fine piece of prose. 'Tinkling', 'glittering', 'nightmare ballet'. He was ever himself.
Franzen: I saw a version of this in my own dreams.
Denis Johnson: America, 'They hate us as people hate a bad God.'
Roger Angell (happy 100th): memories of the old wars.
Aharon Appelfeld: what survival does to survivors.
Rebecca Mead: a new velvet rope for downtown. There's a kind of realism to that.
The controversial Sontag piece: doesn't seem so controversial now, at least not to me (didn't seem so bad to me at the time either).
More Sontag: 'not Pearl Harbor . . . unworthy of a mature democracy' (what a quaint idea).
Amitav Ghosh on his friends Nicole and Frank, a 'surveillance engineer' in the WTC. Nicole survived but Frank didn't.
Sontag again, sounding a little like her ex-husband, author of 'Triumph of the Therapeutic'.
Antrim at the end with a nice long paragraph charting his own entry into being 'empathetically hysterical'.
