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1997

January	Selected Articles Prisoner of war: The lure of gunfire and the enemy within By Scott Anderson Literature's great divide By Charles Baxter Fiction Bishop's house By Mary Gordon Poetry History By Christopher Howell
February	Selected Articles The joys of global investment: Shipping home the fruits of misery By Ted C. Fishman Clinton's bogus earth days By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Fiction The ship visitor By Francisco Goldman Pantalone By Steven Polansky
March	Selected Articles Cold comfort: Looking for the sun in Greenland's endless night By Gretel Ehrlich The elusive goal of war trials By Michael Ignatieff Fiction The basement war By Jonathan Franzen The knife thrower By Steven Millhauser Poetry Legend By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin
April	Selected Articles Opium, made easy: One gardener's encounter with the war on drugs By Michael Pollan When hope and history don't rhyme By Lore Groszmann Segal Fiction The conversion By Lewis Nordan Two boys By Padgett Powell
May	Selected Articles Our machines, ourselves By Charles Siebert, Jaron Lanier, James Bailey, and David Hillel Gelernter Magic lanterns By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The disclaimer By Ron Carlson Penance By Matthew Crain
June	Selected Articles The federal chain-saw massacre: Clinton's Forest Service and clear-cut corruption By Paul Roberts The deep roots of Heaven's Gate By Chris Lehmann Fiction Tina in the backseat By Donald Rawley Poetry The Bob Hope poem By Campbell McGrath
July	Selected Articles Bringing down the house: An explosion in Las Vegas plays as performance art By David Samuels Will lies set you free? By Gerry Spence Fiction Railroad incident, August 1995 By David Means Poetry Translator at the reception By Julio Marzán
August	Selected Articles In the garden of tabloid delight: Notes on sex, Americans, scandal, and morality By Lewis H. Lapham Made in America: A lethal weapon's return policy By Robert Fisk Fiction Gare du Nord By Suketu Mehta Poetry Canada By Billy Collins
September	Selected Articles The life By Lewis H. Lapham Snowed by the CIA By George C. Herring Fiction The view from intensive care By Saul Bellow The lake By Anthony Giardina Poetry The end and the beginning By Wislawa Szymborska
October	Selected Articles Driving Mr. Albert: A trip across America with Einstein's brain By Michael Paterniti A techno-pox upon the land By David Ehrenfeld Fiction Feather and bone By Mark Slouka
November	Selected Articles Fatted calf By Lewis H. Lapham Curbing nature's paparazzi By Bill McKibben Fiction How I came to be lawfully wed By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov A hypnotic seance By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
December	Selected Articles Giving women the business: On winning, losing, and leaving the corporate game By Barbara Ehrenreich, Anita Blair, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Jeanne Lewis, and Elizabeth Perle McKenna The consolations of vanity By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Lady Macbeth, prickly pear queen By Jane Avrich Poetry G.O.P. showgirl By Scott Hogenson A long illness By Donald Hall

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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

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