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1987

January	Selected Articles Helping and hating the homeless. The struggle at the margins of America By Peter Marin Cautionary tales By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The red cocoon By Kobo Abe Research By Max Apple Poetry Velocity of money By Allen Ginsberg
February	Selected Articles Lost innocents. The myth of missing children By Peter Schneider Reflections on bullshit By Harry G. Frankfurt Fiction The Americas: Enlightenment and enterprise By Eduardo H. Galeano State champions By Bobbie Ann Mason Poetry Spring-shock By James Dickey Pinned By August Kleinzahler
March	Selected Articles Across the borders of history. Tijuana and San Diego exchange futures By Richard Rodriguez Happy anniversary By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Reading comprehension By Peter Cherches Jealousy By Leonard Michaels Poetry Elegy By Christianne Balk An open letter By Seamus Heaney
April	Selected Articles Goodness knows nothing of beauty. On the distance between morality and art By William H. Gass Fraternalist manifesto By Christopher Lasch Fiction A death in Palestine By Akram Hanniya City Sundays By Coleman Dowell Poetry Custer dreams “The Tonight Show” By Bernard Pomerance Political song By William Logan
May	Selected Articles The next panic. Fear and trembling on Wall Street By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis Nuclear power's Faustian bargain By Erazim V. Kohák Fiction I know what I'm doing By Frank Gannon Not-so-silent sea By John Hersey Poetry Homer's “Iliad,” updated By Christopher Logue Give me a nickname, prison By Irina Ratushinskaëiìa
June	Selected Articles The terrorist aesthetic. Of artists, stockbrokers, and other Jacobins By Alberto Moravia Love or money By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The gal on my right By Bill Fanzen Wayne By Bill Fanzen
July	Selected Articles A republic of souls. Puritanism and the American presidency By Richard Sennett The Red Queen By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Pretty pictures By Leon Rooke The dying year By Margaret Drabble Poetry The summer before the moon By Susan Stewart
August	Selected Articles Old roses and birdsong. On the senses of summer By Donald Hall Blowing smoke By Roberta Sandler Fiction A little tatter of sky By Peter Heller Poetry The Kama Sutra according to Fiat By David St. John Dropping acid at Aunt Bea's By Baron Wormser
September	Selected Articles Art's grime and place By Arthur Coleman Danto The Democrats' script for 1988 By Robert Shrum Fiction Stories and histories By Jeanette Winterson Kafkas By Marianne Wiggins Poetry Tall in the saddle By Ian McMillan
October	Selected Articles Yesterday's revolution. Grenada, Mr. Reagan, and the hangman By Bob Shacochis Wall painting By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Arrest me By Denis Hirson Sorry fugu By T. Coraghessan Boyle Poetry Drab shutters By John Ashbery
November	Selected Articles Cupcake land. Requiem for the Midwest in the key of vanilla By Richard Rhodes Potomac fever By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Toussaint By Ronald F. Turner Absence of mercy By Robert Stone Poetry Prophecy By Donald Hall
December	Selected Articles Manufacturing the next president By Lesley Stahl, Robert Beckel, Harrison Hickman, Raymond Strother, and Ron Brown Spoils of war By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Hard sell By T. Coraghessan Boyle Imagine a day at the end of your life By Ann Beattie Poetry Fall's end By A.R. Ammons

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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
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THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
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UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
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