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2009

January	Selected Articles The $10 trillion hangover: Paying the price for eight years of Bush By Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz Recantorium By Charles Bernstein Fiction My first real home By Diane Williams The Santosbrazzi killer By Heidi Julavits Poetry Mama By Jesse Patrick Ferguson Origins of poetry By Joel Lipman
February	Selected Articles Sick in the head: Why America won't get the health-care system it needs By Luke Mitchell Fiction Otherwhere By Claire Bateman The world of cheese By Joseph O'Neill Poetry By chance, of course By Wendell Berry
March	Selected Articles The last book party: Publishing drinks to a life after death By Gideon Lewis-Kraus Obamandela By Breyten Breytenbach Fiction Woman in rose dress By Diane Williams If you ever get three or four laughing you weren't soon to forget it By Diane Williams
April	Selected Articles Infinite debt: How unlimited interest rates destroyed the economy By Thomas Geoghegan Fiction The quarrel in the strong-box By Mark Twain The blade By David Means Poetry The cloud corporation By Timothy Donnelly
May	Selected Articles Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military By Jeff Sharlet The quivering upper lip By Theodore Dalrymple Fiction Highgate cemetery By Christine Schutt Credit gone away By Alain Mabanckou
June	Selected Articles Let them eat cash: Can Bill Gates turn hunger into profit? By Frederick Kaufman The jungle is obscene By Werner Herzog Fiction Sick soldier at your door By Barry Hannah Change without movement By Kevin Baker Poetry How lovely wetness makes the flesh By Tennessee Williams
July	Selected Articles Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again By Kevin Baker The ironic cloud By D. Graham Burnett and Jeffrey Andrew Dolven Fiction Company towns By Luther Magnussen Wait till you see me dance By Deb Olin Unferth
August	Selected Articles End of the road: After Detroit, the wreck of an American dream By Ben Austen Is sex interesting? By Wallace Shawn Fiction Too much happiness By Alice Munro
September	Selected Articles Minority death match: Jews, blacks, and the “post-racial” presidency By Naomi Klein The returns By Breyten Breytenbach Fiction The people who kept everything By Sam Lipsyte Adriana By J.M. Coetzee Poetry Africa! Africa! By James Schuyler
October	Selected Articles Too big to burn: AIG plays God in a man-made firestorm By McKenzie Funk To each according to his greed By Slavoj Zizek Fiction Hygiene By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya The dreaming jaw, the salivating ear By Jonathan Lethem
November	Selected Articles Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper By Richard Rodriguez The war we can't win By A.J. Bacevich Fiction None of this would have been remotely feasible By Diane Williams If told correctly it will center on me By Diane Williams Poetry Clean, clean, clean By Linh Dinh
December	Selected Articles The General Electric superfraud: Why the Hudson River will never run clean By David Gargill Fiction Praise to the highways By Roberto Bolaño Mermaid fever By Steven Millhauser

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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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