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1980

January	Selected Articles Divining rods: Notes for a new decade By Lewis H. Lapham Winning at dominoes: Asia is selling itself on capitalism By T.D. Allman Poetry Call the hour By Cynthia Hoyt “Illness as metaphor”—for Susan Sontag By Patricia Goedicke
February	Selected Articles Treating poverty: Wherein the cure gives rise to the disease By Tom Bethell Israeli expansionism: Greed and the Gush Emunim By Arthur H. Samuelson Fiction Words are deeds: A short story By Paul Theroux Poetry Lumiere By H.L. Van Brunt In tornado country By David Ray
March	Selected Articles Groundwork: Rocks of stone By Ronald Jager King Frederick's mules: In the weightless realm of images By Lewis H. Lapham Poetry Rear view mirror By Louis Daniel Brodsky Death comes to the salesman By Louis Daniel Brodsky
April	Selected Articles Voices prophesying war: The deadly game of nations By Lewis H. Lapham Piano bar notes By Don Asher Fiction Sunday under par: A short story By Walker Percy The hostage: A short story By Tova Reich Poetry The ebony casket By Joyce Carol Oates
May	Selected Articles Moral disarmament By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The assembly: A short story By Mavis Gallant Poetry Mourning Pablo Neruda By Robert Bly My inheritance By Mary Jane Dickerson
June	Selected Articles Defeatist France: The heritage of Vichy By Walter Laqueur A taste for Calcutta: This terrible, beautiful city By Simon Winchester Fiction Good morning to you, lieutenant: A short story By Larry Heinemann Poetry A winter daybreak above Vence By James Arlington Wright Chilblain By James Arlington Wright
July	Selected Articles The somnambulists: The armies of the earth asleep By Lewis H. Lapham Interests and alliances: The teachings of Vietnam By George A. Carver Poetry Woman mask By Terrance Kistler Water By Judith McPheron
August	Selected Articles Well-meaning government: Size and possibility By Michael A. Scully Fiction The Dublin coat: A short story By George V. Higgins
September	Selected Articles E.R.A.-R.I.P. Women, not men, defeated the amendment for equal rights By Andrew Hacker Once a Marine: Jogging has replaced the rigors of boot camp By Josiah Bunting Poetry Not bored, not ill at ease or cold By Ann Lauterbach Flowers: 19 february—1 march/1976 By Joel Oppenheimer
October	Selected Articles Ordeal by fire: Casting the candidates into bronze By Lewis H. Lapham Terms of endearment: Legislating love By Walter Berns Fiction The copper balloons: A short story By Lewis Nordan Poetry In the beginning was the word By Richard Shelton To you By Richard Shelton
November	Selected Articles The lost American empire: Explaining it to Sally By Lewis H. Lapham Core curriculum: Barber colleges go back to the basics By Joseph Epstein Fiction The piano recital By John Podhoretz Poetry Visiting Emily Dickinson's grave By Leo Connellan Lack of seed power By James Hearst
December	Selected Articles Eskimo economics: Variations on a conservative theme By Lewis H. Lapham Cures that kill: Medicine's deadly experiments By David Hellerstein Fiction Papa takes a bride: A short story By Noriko Sawada Poetry Fad By Harold Witt