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1998

January	Selected Articles The wreck of time: Taking our century's measure By Annie Dillard Why art should be bad By Dave Hickey Fiction The depressed person By David Foster Wallace Poetry The wish for some release By Albert Goldbarth
February	Selected Articles God bless this rodeo: Louisiana prison inmates illustrate a warden's Bible lessons By Daniel Bergner The dialects of faith By Thomas Lynch Fiction The whore's child By Richard Russo
March	Selected Articles The doctor is not in: On the managed failure of managed health care By Ronald J. Glasser The alarming invasion of public space By Nelson Smith Fiction Single woman for long walks on the beach By Ron Carlson Lucky ducks By Lorrie Moore
April	Selected Articles Virtual Tibet: Where the mountains rise from the sea of our yearning By Orville Schell Collateral damage By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Unapproved minutes of the Carthage, Vermont, Zoning Board of Adjustment By Tom Paine Poetry Barney By Laura Kasischke
May	Selected Articles Fast forward: Our high-speed chase to nowhere By Mark Kingwell Half-lives: Chernobyl revisited By Ludmilla Ignatenko Fiction The shamed house By Mary Gordon The gesture hunter By David Means Poetry Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes By Billy Collins
June	Selected Articles Global roulette: In a volatile world economy, can everyone lose? By Jeffrey E. Garten and William Greider Swiss pastry By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Aesop, uncensored By Aesop A tortoise for the queen of Tonga By Julia Whitty
July	Selected Articles The secret sharer: Sex, race, and denial in an American small town By JoAnn Wypijewski America's long affair with Pol Pot By John Pilger Fiction Loser By Aimee Bender The woods at the back of our houses By Dale Ray Phillips Poetry Waiting for the teacher: On Israel's fiftieth anniversary By Arthur Miller
August	Selected Articles Who'll stop the drain? Reflections on the art of going broke By Vince Passaro Programming under the wizard's spell By Ellen Ullman Fiction Unspeakable rituals By Paul Theroux Napoleon By Karel Capek Poetry Hollywood By Czeslaw Milosz
September	Selected Articles Beyond belief: A skeptic searches for an American faith By Fenton Johnson Punch and Judy By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The piano tuner By Tim Gautreaux Poetry Liberating a pillar of tortillas By Martín Espada
October	Selected Articles Planet of weeds: Tallying the losses of Earth's animals and plants By David Quammen Members only By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction Brief interviews with hideous men By David Foster Wallace
November	Selected Articles Goodbye to all that: Why Americans are not taught history By Christopher Hitchens Hide-and-go-seek By Lewis H. Lapham Poetry Do please circle By Joshua Saul Beckman
December	Selected Articles Up in smoke: The suckers bring the money; Wall Street supplies the matches By Ted C. Fishman Sucking at straws By Lewis H. Lapham Fiction The playhouse By Max Steele Son of the Wolfman By Michael Chabon

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