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1949

January	Selected Articles What are wars for? Or, how not to do it next time By Elmer Holmes Davis When Conan Doyle was Sherlock Holmes: The case of George Edalji By John Dickson Carr Fiction The man who walked through walls By Marcel Aymé Arma virumque cano By Jessamyn West Poetry Eden By Julia McGrane The paper rose By Lloyd Frankenberg
February	Selected Articles Who has the best new submarines? By Fletcher Pratt Woof By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction Master misery By Truman Capote The best bread By Bentz Plagemann Poetry Primavera By Sylvia Stallings Laing's goat By John Ciardi
March	Selected Articles Don't forget the tweeter By Frederick Lewis Allen World government—“Yes, but . . .” By Chester Bowles Fiction The artist By Ralph Kaplan No boat for four months By Maxence van der Meersch Poetry For my son (J.L.N., born summer, 1948) By John Frederick Nims The voice in the sand By James Rorty
April	Selected Articles Fiction The kiss, the tree, and the bullet By Lael Tucker Wertenbaker Down at the dinghy By J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger Poetry The seal By Kate Brackett Still-life By William Jay Smith
May	Selected Articles No ability required By Frederick Lewis Allen A new job for the atom By Gerald Wendt Fiction The black major By Richard Lee Marks The world outside By Howard Maier Poetry Father in heaven, let us be reconciled By Allen Kanfer
June	Selected Articles Smellies, pebbles, and Protelgram By Frederick Lewis Allen The tribunal that stirred England: Part I. Mr. Stanley and Mr. Belcher By Rebecca, Dame West Fiction You make your own life By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett The way it is By James Jones Poetry Instantaneous time exposure (for Wystan Auden) By Brian Howard The hunted By Don Gordon
July	Selected Articles “In order to love . . .” By Frederick Lewis Allen The only path By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction To the country By Russell Lynes The education of Liu Weh-Chen By Robert A. (Robert Alan) Aurthur Poetry Spring song By Dorothy Hughes Fallen star By Allen Kanfer
August	Selected Articles Store for Sunday painters By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction The old comrades By Victor Wolfson The Captain is impaled By Nelson Algren Poetry Fisherman: Hatteras By Sylvia Stallings 1926 By Weldon Kees
September	Selected Articles The new society: I. Revolution by mass production By Peter Ferdinand Drucker Fiction Dinner at the Beeders' By Joyce Cary The Indians of the Colorado River By Mario Prodan Poetry Song By Edwin Muir Transient By Lloyd Frankenberg
October	Selected Articles [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction The lady walks By Jean Powell The aristocrat By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett Poetry Land's end By Weldon Kees
November	Selected Articles Dream house II By Frederick Lewis Allen “Chez Atmosphere” By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction A long farewell By Neil S. (Neil Servis) Boardman Tronco By Niccolò Tucci Poetry Ballade for Braque By Babette Deutsch Autumn has not her smile By Robert Edward Brittain
December	Selected Articles Pint-size symphony By Frederick Lewis Allen I remember Mama By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction The wages of virtue By Mario Prodan Vega By John Cheever Poetry The poet covers his child By Edwin Muir Norway harbor By Stephen Porter Dunn