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1959

January	Selected Articles Electronic helpers for ailing hearts By Leonard Engel Where I get my energy By Eleanor Roosevelt Fiction Bird-watcher: A story By John Jenkins Espey Poetry Torch song By Philene Hammer Halfway By Maxine Kumin
February	Selected Articles The cozy camel of Winston-Salem By Marion K. Sanders Temperament on Second Avenue By Murray Schumach Fiction Shower of ashes: A story By Robin White Poetry A knee-length trapeze By Felicia Lamport A charm of goldfinches, a writhe of worms By Marion McLennan Lineaweaver
March	Selected Articles Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood By Dwight Taylor A deal with Russia? What it might cost us and what we might hope to get By John Fischer Fiction Eagle day: A story By Esther Wagner Poetry Well, that's that By Hilbert Schenck Old world dialogue By Robert Graves
April	Selected Articles Pope John: His cardinals, his character, and his political direction By Robert Neville Fiction A further report on the Weans By Robert Nathan The man who gave up pleasure By Herbert Gold Poetry The islanders By Philip E. Booth Spinal discord By Felicia Lamport
May	Selected Articles Nelson Rockefeller's moral heritage By William Raymond Manchester The analyst's couch and the creative mind By Roger Burlingame Fiction Krishna in the location: A story By Marguerite Pereira Poetry On a cage of mice brought home for the week of school vacation By John Holmes The farmer's wife By Anne Sexton
June	Selected Articles How to make a movie out of The Ugly American By Thomas W., Jr. Wilson Among our contributors By John Fischer Fiction Hyman Kaplan, ever eumoirous ([the first of three stories]) By Leo Calvin Rosten The great fish of Como: A story By Dean Acheson Poetry* A visit to the country By Anthony Ostroff Understand others By Christopher Logue
July	Selected Articles The uncomfortable facts about extrasensory perception By Ian Stevenson TV and its critics By John Fischer Fiction Mr. KAPLAN and the glorious past (the second of three stories) By Leo Calvin Rosten A worthy man for a box: A story By Hayes B. Jacobs Poetry* The poet at seven By Donald Rodney Justice The bite By Maxine Kumin
August	Selected Articles Sense and nonsense about space By Lee A. (Lee Alvin) DuBridge How to cure bird-watchers By John Fischer Fiction The case for Mr. Parkhill [(the third of three stories)] By Leo Calvin Rosten A wild night in Galway By Ray Bradbury Poetry HOWL, or a Beatnik-type ode to our little feathered friends By John Fischer Breakfast in bed in the hospital By John Ciardi
September	Selected Articles Our ambassadors: An intimate appraisal of the men and the system By Charles Wheeler Thayer Why handle criminals with kid gloves? By Alan Barth Fiction Darwinian man, though well-behaved . . . By Reese Wolfe Poetry The explorer By Gwendolyn Brooks He speaks a critic speaks By Helga Sandburg
October	Selected Articles Mr. Balanchine builds a ballet By Robert Kotlowitz Writers and their editors: Notes on an uneasy marriage By John Fischer Fiction The wolfer By Wallace Earle Stegner Poetry Catkind By Robert Graves
November	Selected Articles The virgins and the empress By Elizabeth Bowen Damp stamp By Victor H. (Victor Hugo) Johnson Fiction The blessing: A story By Hugh Nissenson Poetry Kind sir: These woods By Anne Sexton The marooned By Robert Hillyer
December	Selected Articles Boston: The lost ideal By Elizabeth Hardwick Christmas list By John Fischer Fiction The left fielders: A story By Theodore Jacobs Poetry Winter evening: London By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin Fall morning By James L. Montague