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1985

January	Selected Articles Latin America's impossible reality By Gabriel García Márquez The myth of atomic diplomacy By McGeorge Bundy Fiction Forest & shore By Annie Dillard Description (of a description) By Susan Sontag
February	Selected Articles Ideology and agriculture By John Kenneth Galbraith Annals of bureaucratic warfare By Stuart Michael Statler Fiction Michelangelo's snowman By R.M. Lamming Poetry Autobiography By Jaroslav Seifert
March	Selected Articles Citizen Goetz By Lewis H. Lapham The freeze: Crusade of the leisure class By Robert E. Coles Poetry Another dog's death By John Updike
April	Selected Articles What are the consequences of Vietnam? By Kevin P. Phillips, Edward Luttwak, Peter Marin, James Chace, Frances FitzGerald, George F. Gilder, and Paul M. Kennedy Solidarity's next chapter By Adam Michnik and Timothy Garton Ash Fiction To Fidel Castro By Fernando Arrabal San Francisco By Amy Hempel Poetry Flaws: Fifty-six notes on the human condition By E.M. (Emile M.) Cioran
May	Selected Articles Supply-side ethics By Lewis H. Lapham Wilczek's boots By Roman Fritser Fiction The foot By Michelle Huneven Poetry Notes form the morticians' convention By Neal Bowers
June	Selected Articles Confessions of a state terrorist By Mónica González and Andrés Valenzuela Morales Fiction A face laid waste By Marguerite Duras On the radio By Ann Beattie Poetry Pamina's marriage speech By Patricia Storace
July	Selected Articles Reflections on power: A dissenting view By Earl Shorris Words, for the President, upon laying a wreath By Peter Marin Fiction Roommate watch By Slawomir Mrozek For her love By Elsa Morante Poetry Casual wear By James Ingram Merrill Genealogy By T.R. Hummer
August	Selected Articles Cultivating the American garden: Toward a secular view of nature By Frederick W. Turner Atrocity and imagination By Leslie Epstein Fiction How to look at a naked bosom By Italo Calvino On parking lots By Frederick Barthelme Poetry Sunday nocturne By August Kleinzahler
September	Selected Articles Terror by deluxe By Lewis H. Lapham The illusion of the Third World By Shiva Naipaul Fiction The birth of Latin America By Eduardo H. Galeano Poetry The ballad of the Imam and the Shah By James Fenton
October	Selected Articles Lost samurai: The withered soul of postwar Japan By Henry Scott-Stokes Music for crows By Lewis H. Lapham Poetry The Caribbean basin stomp By George Starbuck
November	Selected Articles Liberty under siege: The Reagan Administration's taste for autocracy By Walter Karp The American dialectic By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Men at sea By Margaret Eleanor Atwood Poetry To Marie Osmond By Jack Skelley
December	Selected Articles Body politic By Peter Marin Twisted Sister and the senators By Albert Gore, John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller, Dee Snider, and John C. Danforth Fiction Murder in the academy By W.B. Scott Eighteen minutes By Axel Schulze Poetry The humble administrator's garden By Vikram Seth