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1977

January	Selected Articles The myth of an adversary press By Tom Bethell Auld lang syne By Lewis H. Lapham Poetry Godiva in the nursery By Dorothy Schuchman McCoy Our poem By Laura Fortenbaugh
February	Selected Articles The language of Mammon By Lewis H. Lapham The newspeak generation By Reed Whittemore Fiction The house of angels By Ella Leffland
March	Selected Articles The capitalist paradox By Lewis H. Lapham In which it is argued that the balcony has become the pit By Peter H. Schuck Fiction Roman ordinary By John L'Heureux Success By John L'Heureux Poetry Part of my life in late August 1975 in the literal river of words By Tom Lewis Forlorn hope By Dennis Silk
April	Selected Articles Hidden presidents By Fawn McKay Brodie Confusion worse confounded By Lewis H. Lapham
May	Selected Articles The public use of private interest By Charles L. Schultze Point of order By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction War stories By Robert Stone
June	Selected Articles Inside the volcano By Gene Lyons The black man's burden By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Zephyr By Patricia D. Duncan Poetry Take for example By Daniel Halpern Blue suspension By Daniel Halpern
July	Selected Articles The persecution and character assassination of Howard (Bo) Callaway as performed by inmates of the U.S. Senate under the auspices of the Democratic Party By Jim Hougan Jamaican limbo By Frances FitzGerald Fiction Rummage and loss By David Black Poetry For the path she must follow By Patricia Goedicke Bug By Dennis Silk
August	Selected Articles Small is dubious By Samuel C. Florman Likud's victory By Ben J. Wattenberg Fiction The professor of desire By Philip Roth Poetry Quail By Larry Woiwode How it came By Larry Woiwode
September	Selected Articles Calcutta's bounty By T.D. Allman The absent Left By Jeff Greenfield Fiction The book of Merlyn By T.H. (Terence Hanbury) White We are Norsemen By T. Coraghessan Boyle Poetry Converse By Wendell Berry The wind too By Wendell Berry
October	Selected Articles Cutting velvet at the New York Times By Earl Shorris Beggar's opera By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Love is blind By Julie Hecht
November	Selected Articles Giving Yale to Connecticut By William F. (William Frank) Buckley The faded laurel crown By Christopher Hitchens Fiction Land of cotton By Gilbert Sorrentino
December	Selected Articles Environmentalism and the leisure class By William Tucker The retreat from democracy By Lewis H. Lapham Poetry The flaw By Robert Lowell Epilogue By Robert Lowell

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