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2008

January	Selected Articles The god of the desert: Jerusalem and the ecology of monotheism By Richard Rodriguez Hearts of gold By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction My Fanon project By John Edgar Wideman The great talent By Robert Walser Poetry I met a seducer By Grace Paley
February	Selected Articles The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash By Eric Janszen Resistance is surrender By Slavoj Zizek Fiction The compliance branch By David Foster Wallace ELF-CIO By Mirta Narosky Poetry Patent pending By Hugo Williams
March	Selected Articles Beltway bacchanal: Congress lives high on the contributor's dime By Ken Silverstein Mudville By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Luz Mendiluce Thompson By Roberto Bolaño The ecstasy of Alfred Russel Wallace By Daniel (Daniel Philippe) Mason Poetry Sixteen By Sándor Márai
April	Selected Articles Contagious cancer: The evolution of a killer By David Quammen The evidence of things not seen By David Berlinski Fiction Sprawl By Danielle Dutton Twenty-two stories By Paul Theroux Poetry Encyclopedia of horror By Charles Simic Red fog By Leonard Schwartz
May	Selected Articles Numbers racket: Why the economy is worse than we know By Kevin P. Phillips A great amnesia By Marilynne Robinson Fiction The death of Lazarus Averbuch By Aleksandar Hemon The next thing By Steven Millhauser Poetry The utopian wars By Thomas Lux Boys By Frederick Seidel
June	Selected Articles Turning away from Jesus: Gay rights and the war for the Episcopal Church By Garret Keizer Our phony economy By Jonathan Rowe Fiction How beautiful the mountain By Breyten Breytenbach Suicide by fitness center By Joyce Carol Oates Poetry Death be not green By Mary Ellen Gabias
July	Selected Articles High noon for the Republican Party: Why the G.O.P. must die By Kevin Baker, Kevin P. Phillips, Luke Mitchell, Scott McConnell, and Thomas F. Schaller The boy from Shanghai By J.G. Ballard Fiction The case of the severed hand By Robert Coover Poetry The city of Boston By Jack Spicer When the pie was opened By Paul Muldoon
August	Selected Articles The wrecking crew: How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing By Thomas Frank Active metaphors By George Saunders Fiction On not growing up By Ben Marcus In dreams I kiss your hand, madam By William Gaddis Poetry Praise to the Swiss Federation By Gabriel Gudding Pompeii By Charles Bernstein
September	Selected Articles Tyranny of the test: One year as a Kaplan coach in the public schools By Jeremy Miller Fiction A new paradise, or a new hell By José Saramago Willows village By Dagoberto Gilb Poetry Pity the elderly gray translator By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
October	Selected Articles Bleak houses: Digging through the ruins of the mortgage crisis By Paul Reyes The only place to go By Charles Bowden Fiction Rain By John Edgar Wideman Divorce By John Edgar Wideman Poetry A sea-change By Derek Walcott
November	Selected Articles Creative destruction By Roger D. Hodge The American void By Simon Critchley Fiction The only sane man in a nuthouse By William S. Burroughs The botch By David Means
December	Selected Articles Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an outlaw administration By Scott Horton Fiction White-bread Jesus By Robert Coover Poetry Bismarck's dream By Arthur Rimbaud “Sii romantico, Seidel, tanto per cambiare” By Frederick Seidel

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