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1990

January	Selected Articles When worlds collide By John Lofton Fiction Witness By Madison Smartt Bell
February	Selected Articles Wind from the East By Lewis H. Lapham Language, lies, and Latin democracy By Eduardo H. Galeano Fiction Promotion report By Hengchu Chen Charity By Mark Richard
March	Selected Articles Déjà vu By Lewis H. Lapham Taking nature's measure By Wendell Berry Fiction Enemies and friends By Tim O'Brien Silent movie By Charles Baxter
April	Selected Articles Lead into gold By Lewis H. Lapham Which capitalism for Eastern Europe? By John Kenneth Galbraith Fiction Kerenyaga By Rand Richards Cooper
May	Selected Articles From the mouths of babes to a jail cell: Child abuse and the abuse of justice By Dorothy Rabinowitz Play on words By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Death of a right fielder By Stuart Dybek Eleanor in the underworld By J.S. Marcus
June	Selected Articles Neither morons nor imbeciles nor idiots: In the company of the mentally retarded By Sallie Tisdale The other canon By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Long distance By Edna O'Brien Rehearsing “The Firebird” By Jane Hamilton Poetry Personals ad By Allen Ginsberg
July	Selected Articles Numbers game By Lewis H. Lapham Who are these animals we kill? By Barry Holstun Lopez Fiction Texas By Padgett Powell Kansas By Padgett Powell
August	Selected Articles Learning a new party line By Miklós Vámos Fiction Death by landscape By Margaret Eleanor Atwood In search of the indispensable By Giorgio Manganelli Poetry Observations and experiments By Annie Dillard Edward's anecdote By Donald Hall
September	Selected Articles Chronicle of a debacle foretold: How deregulation begat the S&L scandal By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis The lost art of political argument By Christopher Lasch Fiction Juno of the Veii By Guy Davenport Poetry Short history of the bourgeoisie By Hans Magnus Enzensberger Mtasipol By Benjamin Fondane
October	Selected Articles Late Victorians: San Francisco, AIDS, and the homosexual stereotype By Richard Rodriguez Lines in the sand By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction One evening By Samuel Beckett King By John Edgar Wideman Poetry Going By August Kleinzahler
November	Selected Articles Democracy in America? Not only the economy is in decline By Lewis H. Lapham Telling foreign truths By David Rieff Fiction Nativity, Caucasian By Allan Gurganus Poetry We did what was expected of us By Yehuda Amichai Let us pledge By Wendell Berry
December	Selected Articles Questions of conquest: What Columbus wrought, and what he did not By Mario Vargas Llosa Acceptable opinions By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Ladies and gentlemen:: By Joyce Carol Oates Poetry The loneliness of the military historian By Margaret Eleanor Atwood