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1962

January	Selected Articles In search of a character: A Congo journal By Graham Greene A report from an academic utopia By McGeorge Bundy Fiction The hostage: A story By May Dikeman Poetry Moscow transfer (all out with the fallout) By Felicia Lamport Les saints nouveaux By John Updike
February	Selected Articles The Kennedy era: Stage two By Joseph Kraft The Kennedy era: Stage two By John Fischer Fiction A compound in Passalonia: A story By Richard Rogin Poetry Sleep in the Mojave Desert By Sylvia Plath But that is another story By Donald Rodney Justice
March	Selected Articles The great narcotics muddle By Benjamin DeMott The cop as idealist: The case of Stephen Kennedy By Murray Kempton Fiction Man on a road: A story By Diana Athill Poetry Two for Cynthia By Theodore Roethke Will By Maxine Kumin
April	Selected Articles The coming steel crisis and how to deal with it By Albert Gore What's playing in Berlin? By Henry Butler Fiction A long and happy life By Reynolds Price Poetry Rumpelstiltskin By Richard Frost Song By Edward Field
May	Selected Articles Sixty ivory towers forty feet underground By John Fischer The smile on the face of the Tagus By William Sansom Fiction The late Mr. Shade: A foreword to his last work By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Poetry The fisherman's true bait By James Erwin Schevill
June	Selected Articles The Zen priests and their six persimmons By Ruth Stephan What makes a really good newspaper and why they are so rare By Philip M. (Philip Marshall) Wagner Fiction Paul loves Libby By Philip Roth Poetry John Adams, farmer By Fred Lape Tea in Ryoko-in By Ruth Stephan
July	Selected Articles What the Negro needs most: A First Class Citizens' Council By John Fischer “Seattle will never be the same . . .” By Russell Lynes Fiction The other room By James Thurber Poetry Many happy returns By Laurence Lerner Faithful reader By John Holmes
August	Selected Articles An ex-convict's scheme for more practical prisons By Hal Hollister The Americans transplanted By James Anstruther Maxtone Graham Fiction The flag waver: A story By Howard R. Simpson Poetry Cop-shooting: On a news photograph By Alan Dugan Die neuen heiliger By John Updike
September	Selected Articles The stupidity problem By John Fischer Channel 13 in biz By Russell Lynes Fiction The danger in the house By James Thurber Poetry For the love of dying (Mexico 1936-37) By Malcolm Lowry The cat By Hill Pati
October	Selected Articles Frost, Williams, & company By Stanley Kunitz Foreword By John Fischer Fiction Reena: A story By Paule Marshall Peer the traper: Chapter 2 of a story By Garfield Scrog Poetry Mother and Jack and the rain By Anne Sexton Renting By William Dickey
November	Selected Articles The no-win policy in the Kremlin By John Fischer Fiction The Hemingway influence: A story By Anthony Ostroff Poetry Statement of the defendant at police lineup By Helmer O. Oleson They tell me By Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
December	Selected Articles God rest ye merry, gentlemen, ladies, and a few others By John Fischer The little FM station that could By Lowell Tillett Fiction The speech: A story By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett Poetry Leaving early By Sylvia Plath Forecast By Philip E. Booth