Illusions: Paris match / Ann Patchett
The great carrot caper / Dan Barber
The squeamish American / Tom Perrotta
The absolutely no-anything diet / George Saunders
Discoveries: The sixth sense / Gary Shteyngart
The dining room wars / R. W. Apple, Jr.
I scream / Colson Whitehead
Michelin man / James Salter
Struggles: A not-so-simple plan / Patricia Marx
The sauce and the fury / Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
Bean there / Tucker Carlson
Line of sight / Gabrielle Hamilton
Loss: Expatriot games / John Burnham Schwartz
Inward bound / Chang-Rae Lee
Our lady of Lawson / Pico Iyer
American dreams / Jon Robin Baitz
Compliments of the nurse / Dawn Drzal
Coming home: Turning Japanese / Heidi Julavits
A taste of home / Manil Suri
Ghosts of Passovers past / Anna Winger
Crossing to safety / Dorothy Allison.
