Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays "Film: Best of 2002," by John Waters, David Bordwell, Amy Taubin, Ian Birnie, and Chrissie Iles; "Music: Best of 2002," by Dennis Cooper, Ben Ratliff, Andrew Hultkrans, Clive Bell, and Steve Lafreniere; "Books: Best of 2002," by Linda Nochlin, Yve-Alain Bois, Christopher S. Wood, David Reed, Anne M. Wagner, Michael Warner, Tacita Dean, John Rajchman, and Carlos Basualdo; "Best of 2002: 11 Top Tens," by Lisa Liebmann, Matthew Higgs, Vince Aletti, Robert Rosenblum, Bob Nickas, Daniel Birnbaum, Kate Bush, Philip Nobel, Tom Holert, Katy Siegel, Bruce Hainley. Reviews by Peter Plagens, Rosalind E. Krauss, Jordan Kantor, Lina Dzuverovic-Russell, Steven Henry Madoff, David Levi Strauss, Frances Richard, Tim Griffin, Gregory Williams, Michael Meredith, Michael Wilson, Julie Caniglia, Donald Kuspit, Tom Breidenbach, Martha Schwendener, Nell McClister, Meghan Dailey, David Carrier, James Yood, Ellen Berkovitch, Bruce Hainley, Christopher Miles, Adriano Pedrosa, Christian Kravagna, Juan Vicente Aliaga, Marco Meneguzzo, Sabine B. Vogel, Noemi Smolik, Michael Archer, Jordan Kantor, Sven Lütticken, Barry Schwabsky, Rachel Withers, Philip Auslander, Anna Miles. Cover: Paul Sietsema.