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1991

January	Selected Articles Passing views: On a transcontinental train, looking for America By Edward Hoagland A pardoner's tale By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Stage kiss By Martin Crimp Full day By Reynolds Price Poetry Cargo cult of the solstice at Hadrian's wall By George Starbuck
February	Selected Articles Opening the mail By Lewis H. Lapham Baby talk deconstructed and defended By Daniel Harris Fiction Do you hear your mother talking? By William Kittredge Poetry Pedestrian pastoral By Michael Ryan
March	Selected Articles She wants her TV! He wants his book! By Camille Paglia and Neil Postman Brave new world By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Hopes rise By T. Coraghessan Boyle Poetry A dream of peace By Andrew Motion
April	Selected Articles Hard times By Lewis H. Lapham The Gulf War: An Arab perspective By Rami G. Khouri Fiction Rudderless fiction: Lesson one By Rick DeMarinis
May	Selected Articles Where have all the animals gone? The lamentable extinction of zoos By Charles Siebert Trained seals and sitting ducks By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Tompkins Square By Don DeLillo Possum By Charles Baxter
June	Selected Articles The problem with banks? Bankers: Bad loans, not bad laws, created the current crisis By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis Field of dreams By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The ultimate tattoo By Mark Leyner Octopus By Charis Conn Poetry Elimination dance By Michael Ondaatje
July	Selected Articles Does the White House want a domestic policy? By Kevin P. Phillips, Jack Kemp, Richard N. Bond, and William Janklow Achievement test By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Beach report By Michael Wilding I live in Yonville By Anthony Giardina
August	Selected Articles On seeing England for the first time By Jamaica Kincaid Fiction A trip to the mountains By Annie Dillard Meat in space By Terry Bisson Poetry Reruns By David Trinidad The poet laureate's official Blushing Monday poem By August Kleinzahler
September	Selected Articles Written in the big wind By Bob Shacochis No more race politics, Mr. President By Bill Bradley Fiction Is laughter contagious? By Joyce Carol Oates
October	Selected Articles Bidding for Yoko By Gillon R. Aitken Sense and sensibility By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction To find the edge By Robert Stone Poetry The bard of baseball By Hart Seeley and Tom Peyer Growing up By Richard Afari Baafour
November	Selected Articles Mixed blood: Columbus's legacy By Richard Rodriguez History lesson By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction One thousand words on why you should not talk during a fire drill By Mark Halliday
December	Selected Articles What are universities for? The real crisis on campus is one of identity By Louis Menand More light By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The sixties By David Shields