In this issue:
LIFE AND LETTERS
"Middlemarch and Me", by Rebecca Mead: What George Eliot teaches us.
A CRITIC AT LARGE
"The Information", by Adam Gopnik: Does the internet change the way we think?
FICTION
"The Other Place", by Mary Gaitskill.
MUSICAL EVENTS
"Schubert on the Beach", by Alex Ross: A new kind of concert hall in Miami Beach.
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