From the Editor:
Gin & Tonics on the House
DAVID HASKELL

Contributors

Letters to the Editor

The Pull of the Good Life
Mathematicians, Mormons & Mickey Mouse
YI-FU TUAN

The Name Game
Becoming Alex Garland
JAMIE CAMPBELL

A Marketable Wonder
Spelunking the American Imagination
JULIAN DIBBELL

I'm Never Going Home for Dinner
Summer's Almost Endless Days
NOE DEWITT

Utopia
A Spartan Recipie
PAUL CARTLEDGE

Escape to Paradise
A Rent-Boy's Story
VLADISLAV

Notes on Coincidence
Negotiations in Life and Fiction
DAVID LEAVITT

Letter from Java
It's a Big World After All
MARC HERMAN

The Perfect Novel
Battling Self-Delusion
PAISLEY REKDAL

Monster Hunting
A Submarine in Loch Ness
DAN SCOTT TAYLOR

Seeing Ourselves in Others
The Human Condition in a Photograph
STEVE McCURRY

Nearly a Great Book
Discovering Dracula
CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING

Multitudes
The Magnificent Range of Mother Nature
AMY BLOOM

A Faintly Preposterous Life
Re-enacting the English Civil War
DAVID GIBBONS

Between Two Points
From Conception to Creation
MICHEL HOST

Winning Isn't Everything
Gambling's Dark Secret
GERDA REITH

Blonde & Beautiful
What Are the Japanese Doing to Their Hair?
ROB LANGE & FUMIAKI SHIRAISHI

Reality Check
Insights from Cognitive Science
TEMRE N. DAVIES & DONALD D. HOFFMAN

thenoz&then
Picturing the Before & After
SHAWN CHENG

Shared Fantasies
What Else We Have in Common
ETHEL SPECTOR PERSON

Playing House
A Statement of How One Sees
CHARLOTTE HOLMES

Chasing MacGyver
An Adventure in Fan Fiction
NEAL POLLACK


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Topic Magazine
Issue 2 | Autumn 2002

Founders
Joanna Guldi &
David Haskell
Editor in Chief
David Haskell
Managing Editor
Robert B. Gilpin
Senior Editors
Eliza Young &
Nicholas Macgregor
Solicitation Director
Eliza Young
Contributing Editors
Vassiliki Afentoulidou, Clément Daniel, Christopher Douglas, Maggie Evans, Joanna Guldi, Michael Morgan & Thi Nguyen
Art Director
Daniel B. Visel
Publisher
Mohit Bhende
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Maggie Evans
Publicity
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Development
Nilima Gulrajani, Walter Rentzsch & Sandra Scanlon
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Shawn Cheng
Web Content Editor
Robert Colvile
Staff Photographer
Melanie J. Ross
Director, California Office
Joanna Guldi


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