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1971

January	Selected Articles The babble of American place-names By John Hollander The end of a populist By David Halberstam Fiction The unworthy friend By Jorge Luis Borges Poetry November larches By Stephen Sandy So she said By James Arlington Wright
February	Selected Articles Is anybody listening? By Harold C. Schonberg Survival U is alive and burgeoning in Green Bay, Wisconsin By John Fischer Fiction Scenes from the almost revolution By James Jones
March	Selected Articles The prisoner of sex By Norman Mailer Fiction Loss of memory is only temporary By Johanna Kaplan Poetry Talking to dogs By W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden In the shape of a boar By Paul Celan
April	Selected Articles Film lives of great composers By Harold C. Schonberg A modest contribution to the marijuana and folklore industries By John Fischer Fiction The call By Frank O'Connor Poetry The eternal city By A.R. Ammons An autumnal By Anthony Hecht
May	Selected Articles Prodigies and music By Harold C. Schonberg The firewalkers of Udappawa By Victor Perera Fiction As the hippiest doctor almost grooved By Stephen Erhart Poetry Pieces of history By James Ingram Merrill Music volute By John Hollander
June	Selected Articles Hunting for America By Richard W. (Richard William) Murphy Spies by the thousands: Report from Germany By Friedel Ungeheuer Fiction The girl with the gold tooth By Milovan Djilas Poetry Formulas for oblivion By Mark Strand
July	Selected Articles The rush for instant salvation By Sara Davidson Jacksonville: So different you can hardly believe it By John Fischer Poetry The chameleon who ended up not knowing what to turn By Augusto Monterroso
August	Selected Articles The Mafia tries a new tune By Tom Buckley The longing for Armageddon By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Bloodstains By Joyce Carol Oates Poetry The recurrent savior By Augusto Monterroso The black sheep By Augusto Monterroso
September	Selected Articles White ethnic By Michael Novak The depressing uniformity of the avant-garde By Harold C. Schonberg Fiction Sublimating By John Updike Poetry Roadside notes in ragged hand: Driving from South Carolina By James Applewhite Kites By Judith Krommer
October	Selected Articles Professors, unite! By Myron Lieberman Not nature alone By Richard John Neuhaus Fiction Tom Castro, the implausible impostor By Jorge Luis Borges Poetry Some days of its gift By William Stafford Crow maiden By Richard Brautigan
November	Selected Articles What movies try to sell us By Lewis H. Lapham Nixonomics: Well, you can't have everything By John Fischer Poetry The Donner party: Selections from an American odyssey By George Keithley
December	Selected Articles Packaged sentiment By Richard Rhodes Eccles no. 6 By Laurence Leamer Fiction Elena, unfaithful By Gloria Kurian Broder Poetry Season By Irving Feldman Now is the time By Allen Kanfer