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1992

January	Selected Articles Who and what is American? The things we continue to hold in common By Lewis H. Lapham Power, freedom, and the failure of theory By John P. Diggins Fiction The widower By Marco Lodoli Think we'll go to plan B now By Marianne Wiggins Poetry Israel's American hostages By Haim Hefer My books By Jorge Luis Borges
February	Selected Articles A last good place to live By Chip Brown Inside Rocky Flats: A whistle-blower's journal By Jacqueline Brever Fiction Sweet things By William H. Gass The professor By Lydia Davis
March	Selected Articles Havana then and now: Revisiting a city once again in history's straits By Robert Stone The new economics of high technology By Lester C. Thurow Fiction Shoplifting casualties By Edgardo Cozarinsky Charlotte By Tony Earley Poetry Inventing angels By Gary Fincke
April	Selected Articles Voting in the passive voice: What polling has done to the American democracy By Christopher Hitchens Can Russia return to Europe? By Michael Ignatieff Fiction Five pears or peaches By Reginald Gibbons Mission By Reginald Gibbons Poetry Buenos Aires By Marjorie Agosin
May	Selected Articles A loaded question: What is it about Americans and guns? By Leonard Kriegel For a more banal politics By Richard Rorty Fiction Rose wept By William Trevor Poetry Backyard By John E. Tranter
June	Selected Articles Central Europe's post-captive minds By Erazim V. Kohák Fiction The summer of vintage clothing By Ron Carlson Poetry Humpty Dumpty By Mary Ann Waters
July	Selected Articles 30 seconds to victory By Stuart Stevens, Ian Weinschel, Paul Wilson, Ken Swope, and Joe Trippi The real lesson of L.A. By Bill Bradley Fiction The whole truth By Stephen McCauley Poetry Tokyo's new beat By Ei Akitsu
August	Selected Articles The trickle down of judicial racism By Stephen Reinhardt Fiction Gregor: My life as a bug By Jane Smiley The late Gatsby By Jay Parini Poetry Mr. Ripley writes a preface By Jean de Beaumont Mrs. Ripley gets it off her chest By Jean de Beaumont
September	Selected Articles Bushism, found: A second-term agenda hidden in trade agreements By Walter Russell Mead The resegregation of a Southern school By Douglas A. Blackmon Fiction Oedipus the king (of the road) By Daniel Nussbaum Grapes By Sergei Dovlatov Poetry September By Thomas M. Disch
October	Selected Articles A nation of welfare families By Stephanie Coontz Fiction Pafko at the wall By Don DeLillo The tiny immortals By William T. Vollmann
November	Selected Articles Deus ex machina By Lewis H. Lapham A second S&L scandal By Jacqueline P. Taylor Fiction Created things By Charles Baxter Poetry In the land of lotus eaters By Tony Hoagland
December	Selected Articles Palestine, then and now: An exile's journey through Israel and the Occupied Territories By Edward W. Said Upstairs, downstairs By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Yugo down, Moses By Michael A. Crivello After a Fight By Leonard Michaels

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AUGUST 2008

THE WRECKING CREW
How a Gang of Right-Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing
By Thomas Frank

THE MANDARINS
American Foreign Policy, Brought to You by China
By Ken Silverstein

JACK
A story by Marilynne Robinson

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