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1995

January	Selected Articles Violent certainties: A report from a Milwaukee abortion clinic, where the crowd outside brandishes the weapons of righteousness and the women inside bear the weight of their choice By Verlyn Klinkenborg Demonizing the academy By Richard Rorty Fiction Beautiful equations By Alan P. Lightman Sleep By Stephen Dixon Poetry The revisionist: On Noah's ark By Michael J. Bugeja
February	Selected Articles The immaculate invasion: In Haiti, U.S. troops deploy the illusion of democracy By Bob Shacochis Bosnia's fall, our failure By David Rieff Fiction Gossip worth waiting for By K. Sinclair-Loutit The pope By David Albahari Poetry Radical verse By William Moses Kunstler
March	Selected Articles Reactionary chic: How the nineties right recycles the bombast of the sixties left By Lewis H. Lapham Listening to boredom By Joseph Brodsky Fiction The woodcarver's tale By Mark Slouka Poetry Sports meltdown By Neal Pollack One explanation By Jennifer O'Grady
April	Selected Articles Releasing wolves from symbolism By Renee Askins Fiction Bounty: A novella in which a genetically flawed hero flees through an American dystopia, evading slave traders and regaining his liberty By George Saunders One man's coffee war By Mark Helprin Poetry The compasses By Albert Goldbarth
May	Selected Articles In defense of prejudice: Why incendiary speech must be protected By Jonathan Rauch The fatal mistakes of AIDS education By Walt Odets Fiction Stolen child By Paul Cody Nights in white satin By Thom Jones Poetry L.A. boheme By June Jordan Hand washing By Gary Soto
June	Selected Articles To have and have not: Notes on the progress of the American class war By Michael Lind Getting close to the machine By Ellen Ullman Fiction Squeak in the sycamore By Gordon Lish Fear of heights By Eric Gamalinda Poetry Funeral march of Adolf Wolfli By Theodore Deppe
July	Selected Articles Seen but not heard: The message of the Oklahoma bombing By Lewis H. Lapham Confessions of a dirty warrior By Fernando Almirón Fiction The mirror By Lynn Freed Poetry The overhead rack By John Updike C'mon pigs of western civilization By Allen Ginsberg
August	Selected Articles What are we doing on-line? By Mark Slouka, Sven Birkerts, John P. (John Perry) Barlow, and Kevin Kelly Lacking all conviction By Christopher Hitchens Fiction The lost girl By Tova Reich Poetry Signals at sea By Annie Dillard
September	Selected Articles Put on a happy face: Masking the differences between blacks and whites By Benjamin DeMott Fiction An American dream By Lewis Nordan Make me By Steven Rinehart Poetry Title search By John Ashbery
October	Selected Articles On the wings of commerce: Penguins and lipstick, strawberries and gold—aloft By Barry Holstun Lopez Beauty's secrets By Nancy Huston Fiction Homage By Nadine Gordimer The chromium hook By Ron Carlson Poetry The rural dream By Linda Pastan
November	Selected Articles Winter work: Diary of a day laborer By Don J. Snyder The enemies of imagination By Bob Shacochis Fiction Barbara Boxer's dream come true? By Barbara Boxer Sticks By George Saunders
December	Selected Articles The heat is on: The warming of the world's climate sparks a blaze of denial By Ross Gelbspan Black jurors: Right to acquit? By Paul Butler

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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

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

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry

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