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1953

January	Selected Articles Kitimat: Colossus of the Northwest By Richard L. (Richard Lewis) Neuberger The truce talks in Korea: A full report to the United Nations By Dean Acheson Fiction Christmas twice: A story By David Goldknopf Poetry Gloss By David Thompson Watson McCord Despatch By Robert Berkowitz
February	Selected Articles Sea monsters and sharks at eye level By Jacques Yves Cousteau and Frédéric Dumas Are we headed for a depression? By Sumner H. (Sumner Huber) Slichter Fiction The martyr: A story By Frank O'Connor The red mountain: A story By Robert Payne Poetry Song of three smiles By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin To my geese By Anne Goodwin Winslow
March	Selected Articles Revolution in clothes By Fessenden Seaver Blanchard What do the Democrats do now? By John Fischer Fiction Artists in uniform: A story By Mary McCarthy Indigenous girls: A story By Donald R. Depew Poetry Northeaster By Elizabeth Enright Saying good-by to a child By Sara Van Alstyne Allen
April	Selected Articles Three stars for Baedeker By W.G. (William George) Constable A tidy room in Bedlam: Notes on the “new” fiction By Malcolm Cowley Fiction Breach of promise: A story By Jessamyn West The tame ox: A story By Jack Cope Poetry Weather note By Babette Deutsch Song of the new fool By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin
May	Selected Articles The social structure of the underworld: Who's who in prison life By Lewis Dent Tomorrow's helicopters By Charles Lester Walker Fiction One for the collection: A story By Elizabeth Enright Poetry Founding fathers By Sylvia Stallings The underground railroad By Don Gordon
June	Selected Articles How we invented the airplane By Orville Wright Beans, cabbage, tomatoes . . . By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction Monsieur Malfait: A story By Stephen D. Becker No month but May: A story By Mary Deasy Poetry Cherry tree By Peter Kane Dufault On a sonnet written past fifty By Robert Berkowitz
July	Selected Articles Colossus on the Potomac: Causes and cures of big government By Paul Howard Douglas Grandeurs and miseries of old age By Elmer Holmes Davis Fiction The soprano and the piccolo player By Mary Middleton Murry The flower: A story By Miriam Rugel Poetry Blind date By Edwin Muir Noon hour in Bryant Park By Sylvia Wright
August	Selected Articles Richard Rodgers: Composer without a key By Eckert Goodman Are we worth saving? And if so, why? By Elmer Holmes Davis Fiction Troubadour: A story By Eugene Walter The blue charm: A story By Paul Hyde Bonner Poetry The sportsman By David Thompson Watson McCord Swing song By Elizabeth Enright
September	Selected Articles Dr. Kinsey's second sex By Anne G. Freedgood The coming change in American foreign policy By John Fischer Fiction Cholmondeley the chimpanzee By Gerald Malcolm Durrell Lamb to the slaughter By Roald Dahl Poetry Look! Look! By Leonard Bacon
October	Selected Articles Stranger in the village By James Baldwin Why did they fight? By Eric Sevareid Fiction Forget the geraniums: A story By Max Steele Poetry When I came from Colchis By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin Bloodroot By Charles G. Bell
November	Selected Articles The mass-produced suburbs: I. How people live in America's newest towns By Harry Henderson Textbook in a shack By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction The seducers: A fragment By Katherine Anne Porter The pen friend: A story By Wilmer Hamilton Poetry Moment's monument By Anne Goodwin Winslow At tidemark By Elizabeth Enright
December	Selected Articles A religion for now By Nathan Marsh Pusey The Germans: Their cause and cure By Milton Sanford Mayer Fiction A Christmas carillon: A story By Hortense Calisher The armadillo basket: A story By William Goyen Poetry On the generations of man By Marion M. Madsen December: Of Aphrodite By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin

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AUGUST 2008

THE WRECKING CREW
How a Gang of Right-Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing
By Thomas Frank

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American Foreign Policy, Brought to You by China
By Ken Silverstein

JACK
A story by Marilynne Robinson

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