(Some of) the best books of 2001
Atlantic, The, December, 2001 by Benjamin Schwarz
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More books for review are sent to our offices in a week than the magazine has space to cover in a year, which means that we're constantly culling. Here are some principles that guide our choices. We are, of course, looking for the great books that deserve our readers' attention. Some might be otherwise neglected—the mesmerizing debut novel that the literati aren't talking about, the dazzling memoir out of print for decades, the obscure work of sociology so bold in its approach that it redefines the way its subject is understood.
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But we also want to help our readers decide which highly publicized books are worth their time and money. Moreover, we hope to keep readers abreast of significant scholarly debates, even if a book defining one of those debates is clumsily written and, we believe, completely wrong (reading brisk book reviews can be a painless way to understand the ...
