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1961

January	Selected Articles The pressures against air safety By Elwood R. (Elwood Richard) Quesada Mr. Tynan replies By Kenneth Tynan Fiction The well: A story By Hugh Nissenson Poetry The year changes in the city By James Arlington Wright A sigh for cybernetics By Felicia Lamport
February	Selected Articles The dangerous road before Martin Luther King By James Baldwin Agenda for the two Ks By John Fischer Fiction The frozen moose: A story By Garfield Scrog Knate: A story By Marcel Aymé Poetry The journey: For Jane at thirteen By Maxine Kumin The character of Washington By Paul Goodman
March	Selected Articles The tyranny of multiple-choice tests By Banesh Hoffmann Three scouts heading West By William Smith White Fiction The castle at Arundel: A story By Arthur Ray Heiserman Consumers' research By Tobias George Smollett Poetry March By James Arlington Wright My countryman Marco Polo By John Ciardi
April	Selected Articles Trial by combat in American courts By David Dressler Fiction A corner of a foreign jail: A story By Alexis Ladas Poetry Late winter birthday By Robert Mezey Merchant of Rio By Elizabeth (Chesley) Baity
May	Selected Articles The public mood By Richard Pipes Fiction The polarizing force: A story By May Dikeman Poetry Naming the colors By Eric Pfeiffer The Danaids By Smith Palmer Bovie
June	Selected Articles The coming bust in the real estate boom By Daniel M. Friedenberg Don't write your congressman, unless . . . By Ellen Davis Fiction A matter of luck: A story By Maurice Druon Poetry So I will punch you one-o By David Thompson Watson McCord You're By Sylvia Plath
July	Selected Articles Point of no return? . . . a puzzled report from Yugoslavia (part I) By John Fischer My invasion of Marseilles By Joshua Logan Fiction Summer is another country: A story By Christine Weston Poetry God opens his mail By Larry Rubin Vermont By John Updike
August	Selected Articles America under pressure: A political commentary By Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson Yugoslavia's flirtation with free enterprise (part II) By John Fischer Fiction The man who doubted: A story By Jack Cope Poetry A psychiatrist's song By Hilary Corke Voyage By Samuel Menashe
September	Selected Articles Violence in the city streets: How our “housing experts” unwittingly encourage crime By Jane Jacobs Money bait By John Fischer Fiction Mr. Future: A story By Leo Calvin Rosten Poetry For Anna Akmatova By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak In the woods By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
October	Selected Articles “Private vs. public”: Could Kenneth Galbraith be wrong? By Henry Christopher Wallich Fiction A bird on the mesa: A story By William Eastlake Poetry The examination By W.D. (William De Witt) Snodgrass Chance what comes By Christopher Z. Hobson
November	Selected Articles A hopeful letter to Fowler Hamilton By John Fischer Fiction In the company of runners: A story By Richard Rogin Poetry The daily globe By Howard Nemerov Rival By Phyllis Rose
December	Selected Articles Christmas list By John Fischer You tell them, Pop—; you've got the vox By Noel Perrin Fiction A blocked feed: A story By Nigel Forbes Dennis Poetry Her husband By Ted Hughes Pavane for a dead doll; or, the pain in Grandfather's neck By Ogden Nash

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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

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