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1999

January	Selected Articles Scribble, scribble, scribble: The literary impulse, its despair and delight By Nicholas Delbanco Italian opera By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Arctic dreams By Kenneth Koch Against the odds By William Trevor
February	Selected Articles The pilot's tale: At sea with 90,000 tons of diplomacy By Matthew Klam Our golden, sacrificial couples By Allan Gurganus Fiction Au sable By Joyce Carol Oates Poetry Ode to Monica By Daniel Radosh Slum lords By John Updike
March	Selected Articles On Broadway: Notes on the past and future of American theater By Arthur Miller Exorcism By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The opera of elephants By Kevin Baker The next life By Peter Ho Davies
April	Selected Articles Full fathom five By Lewis H. Lapham Where Clinton's Third Way went wrong By Robert B. Reich Fiction Court of palms By Leslie Epstein Poetry The sound of science By Silvano De Gennaro
May	Selected Articles America's altered states: When does legal relief of pain become illegal pursuit of pleasure? By Joshua Wolf Shenk The spring shows By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Twilight By Lynn Freed
June	Selected Articles Who needs men? Addressing the prospect of a matrilinear millennium By Barbara Ehrenreich and Lionel Tiger The demolition of world order By Noam Chomsky Fiction Extracts from the diaries of Adam and Eve (translated from the original mss.) By Mark Twain Mind on fire By Julie Hecht
July	Selected Articles At war with ourselves: In Kosovo, America confronts its own ideals By Michael Hirsh War movie By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction A remembrance of ink past By Ken Kalfus The bridegroom By Ha Jin
August	Selected Articles Wheaties: Chasing the ripening harvest across America's Great Plains By Shane DuBow Belgrade underground By A. G. Fiction The masked ball By Klaus Mann Forty-minute lunch By Jennifer Egan
September	Selected Articles How to peel a poem: Five poets dine out on verse By Charles Simic, Donald Hall, Cynthia Huntington, Paul Muldoon, and Heather McHugh Shadowboxing By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Sisters without mercy By Lynda Barry Watch the animals By Alice Elliott Dark Poetry The nail By C.K. (Charles Kenneth) Williams
October	Selected Articles The kingdom of apples: Picking the fruit of immortality in Washington's laden orchards By David Guterson Curtain calls By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The fool's proxy By J. Robert Lennon Poetry Proceed with caution By Charles Bernstein
November	Selected Articles In defense of the book: On the enduring pleasures of paper, type, page, and ink By William H. Gass Asset management By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The lady in the looking-glass: A reflection By Virginia Woolf Brownies By ZZ Packer Poetry This is where you must live By Paul Celan
December	Selected Articles Down and out at the Hotel Providence: Scenes from a Bowery flophouse By Guy Lawson Performance art By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Green world By Greg Hrbek Poetry The swarm By Jorie Graham