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1956

January	Selected Articles The Wall Street lawyers: Part I By Martin Mayer Beating the Bali Ha'i racket By Bernard Augustine De Voto Fiction Lazy Susan: A story By Frances McFadden Loser takes all (part IV) By Graham Greene Poetry The well bred children By Helen W. (Helen Walker) Puner and Judith Murphy The Olympic girl By John, Sir Betjeman
February	Selected Articles Intellectual with a gun By John Fischer [various] By John Fischer Fiction Bushmen hunting: A story By Jack Cope Poetry Tobacco By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin Twentieth century pastoral: Cow at her own drinking fountain By Fred Lape
March	Selected Articles Gesell's children grow up By Helen W. (Helen Walker) Puner Why is the conservative voice so hoarse? By John Fischer Fiction All the guts in the world: A story By Richard Frede Poetry Twentieth century pastoral: The simple life By Fred Lape
April	Selected Articles The best theater season in years By Walter Kerr Greetings, girls By John Fischer Fiction Man's courage By Wyatt Blassingame Poetry Horace to Tibullus By Gilbert Highet If you have an appointment for April break it By Jean Pedrick
May	Selected Articles Remembrance in a high valley By John Fischer Fiction The sound of Moorish laughter: A story By Harold Brodkey Poetry Ash can By Peter Kane Dufault
June	Selected Articles Forecast for June, August, and November By John Fischer Three women By John Fischer Fiction The tamperer: A story By Thomas C. Turner Poetry The weir By Lysander Kemp Sing Kukla By Philene Hammer
July	Selected Articles Yankee morals and the $2 bet By John Strohmeyer Running barefoot through a hayloft full of ten-dollar bills By John Fischer Fiction King Solomon: A story By Isaac Rosenfeld A question of principle: A story By Sherry Mangan Poetry Twentieth century pastoral: Summer By Fred Lape For the state of Minnesota: During the second summer session at the university By Chadwick Hansen
August	Selected Articles Overdue changes in our foreign policy By George Frost Kennan Thomas E. Dewey's guide to the conventions By John Fischer Fiction Bridgeport lullaby: A story By Eaton G. Davis The rock climb: A story By Don Moser Poetry From the North By Joyce Mary Horner Summer tourists By Eric Barker
September	Selected Articles John Foster Dulles: A very complicated man By Joseph C. (Joseph Close) Harsch Johnny-on-the-spot By John Fischer Fiction The bandits: A story By William Eastlake Poetry Cook's detour By Felicia Lamport New chitons for old gods (symmetrics) By David Thompson Watson McCord
October	Selected Articles The next Pope By Luigi Giorgio Barzini The harm good people do By John Fischer Fiction The trial of Mr. M: A story By Louis Auchincloss Poetry Bufo vulgaris By John Ciardi Hadrian's lullaby (animula vagula blandula . . .) By Anne Goodwin Winslow
November	Selected Articles Television's lords of creation: Part I By Martin Mayer March of the hard-boiled eggheads By John Fischer Fiction Digging the Weans: A story By Robert Nathan Poetry To be black, to be lost . . . By Hannah Kahn Advice for a wedding By Allen Kanfer
December	Selected Articles God rest ye merry, gentlemen, ladies, and pests By John Fischer The philosopher of action By John Fischer Poetry A wooden darning egg By John Updike Scrolls By Anne Goodwin Winslow

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AUGUST 2008

THE WRECKING CREW
How a Gang of Right-Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing
By Thomas Frank

THE MANDARINS
American Foreign Policy, Brought to You by China
By Ken Silverstein

JACK
A story by Marilynne Robinson

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