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1958

January	Selected Articles San Francisco: New serpents in Eden By Bruce Bliven Conversation at midnight: Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria By John Fischer Fiction Waldo: A story By Aubrey Goodman Poetry A refusal to mourn, etc. By Lloyd Frankenberg Song By Emilie Bix Buchwald
February	Selected Articles What is advertising good for? By Martin Mayer Who's in charge here? By John Fischer Fiction An old boy who made violins By Ben Maddow Poetry And I say the hell with it By Philene Hammer Florence: At the Villa Jernyngham By Osbert Sitwell
March	Selected Articles New discoveries about the birth, life, and death of the sun and other stars: This hydrogen universe (part I) By George W. (George William) Gray Forecast for a cheerful springtime By John Fischer Fiction Gentlemen's game: A story By H.E.F. Donohue Poetry Dunce's song By Mark Van Doren Univac to Univac (sotto voce) By Louis Bernard Salomon
April	Selected Articles What's happening to jazz By Nat Hentoff A combat veteran sounds off By E.B. Crabill Fiction Happy marriage: A story By Joyce Cary Poetry Platform before the castle By Anne Goodwin Winslow Return of the native (Donegal, April 1957) By James Rorty
May	Selected Articles How Frank Lloyd Wright got his medal By Alfred Bendiner How to keep Congress honest By John Fischer Fiction The guy in Ward 4: A story By Leo Calvin Rosten Poetry The academic overture By Richmond Alexander Lattimore Exchange By Miriam Waddington
June	Selected Articles The lunar world of Groucho Marx By Leo Calvin Rosten The untold story behind Little Rock By Harry S. Ashmore Fiction A friendly talk: A story By Storm Jameson The child-centered home By Leo, graf Tolstoy Poetry Of cats By Ted Hughes Augeias and I By Robert Graves
July	Selected Articles Southerners who set the woods on fire By Ed Kerr Recipe for a fast million By John Fischer Fiction The Iowan's curse: A story By Charles G. (Charles Grandison) Finney Poetry On minding one's own business By James Arlington Wright
August	Selected Articles Trying to find the shape—if any—of the news in Washington By William Smith White The non-sexual behavior of the human female By John Fischer Fiction Togetherness among the Comanches By Frank X. Tolbert Something spurious from the Mindanao Deep: A story By Wallace Earle Stegner Poetry Phoenix: For Santha and Faubion By David Louis Posner Apology for no poems By William Gibson
September	Selected Articles The coming Ice Age: A true scientific detective story By Betty Friedan Self-portrait of the Harper reader By John Fischer Fiction Just a simple country boy By Priscilla D. Willis Poetry The gunfighters By Constance Urdang Egotist By Felix Stefanile
October	Selected Articles Imperial Harvard: A report on the manners, men, and state of mind—a kind of polite arrogance—which have made it the ruler of America's intellectual roost . . . By David Boroff Society and morals in the underworld By John Fischer Fiction The life and death of a western gladiator By Charles G. (Charles Grandison) Finney
November	Selected Articles The men-taming women of William Inge By Robert Sanford Brustein Wine-bibbing By Alec Waugh Fiction Sweetheart, sweetheart, sweetheart By Aubrey Goodman Poetry Relic By Ted Hughes The ugly duckling By Allen Kanfer
December	Selected Articles The Yuletide will get you if you don't watch out By John Fischer Fiction The extern: A story By Theodore Jacobs Poetry A student, departing for Christmas vacation, to himself By Thomas B. (Thomas Bacon) Whitbread The innkeeper's story By Jane Cooper