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2011

January	Selected Articles The drunk's club: A.A., the cult that cures By Clancy W. Martin Holding Harlem By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Fiction The hare's mask By Mark Slouka Poetry If I were Tomaz Salamun By Adam Zagajewski
February	Selected Articles Can Madison Avenue make us love our government? By Perry Fair, Mark Fitzloff, Marc Sobier, and Con Williamson The art of suffering By Pascal Bruckner Fiction Always raining somewhere, said Jim Johnson By John Edgar Wideman Poetry I did this to my vocabulary By Michael Robbins
March	Selected Articles Homeless in Sacramento: Welcome to the new tent cities By William T. Vollmann Sounding the word By Charles Bernstein Fiction Race By Breyten Breytenbach Suicide I By Breyten Breytenbach Poetry Narrative 6 By Paul Guest
April	Selected Articles Democracy 101: Mark Twain's farewell address By Lewis H. Lapham Tact in the age of Wikileaks By Slavoj Zizek Fiction Life in three houses By Edouard Levé Pride By Alice Munro Poetry Blood in our headlights, car wrecked, the boar dead By Jim Moore
May	Selected Articles Owned by the army: Has the president lost control of his generals? By Jonathan Stevenson This is not an Islamic revolution By Olivier Roy Fiction Chicken Winchell By Diane Williams An accidental place By Rahul Bhattacharya
June	Selected Articles Ryan went to Afghanistan By Kent Russell Fiction What animal are you? By Etgar Keret Absalom dies By John Banville Poetry The emergency room at sunset By Mark Strand The arrow by day By Charles Baxter
July	Selected Articles Gold faithful: Profiting from paranoia with precious metals By Thomas Frank The language of work By Mark Kingwell Fiction Last night By Colson Whitehead Incident in the Oriente By Paul Theroux Poetry Space By Bill Knott
August	Selected Articles After 9/11: The limits of remembrance By David Rieff Into the forbidden zone By William T. Vollmann Fiction Whites By Julie Otsuka The losing end By Bonnie Nadzam Poetry The sandhill cranes of Nebraska By Billy Collins
September	Selected Articles Getting schooled: The re-education of an American teacher By Garret Keizer A letter to Barack Obama By George S. (George Stanley) McGovern Fiction My chivalric fiasco By George Saunders
October	Selected Articles Pennies from heaven: How Mormon economics shape the G.O.P By Chris Lehmann Radisson confidential By Jonathan Lethem Fiction Beatrixpark: An illumination By Dario Voltolini Starve a rat By Justin Torres Poetry Friday or Saturday By Jack Spicer
November	Selected Articles Broken Britain: Nothing is left of the family silver By Ed Vulliamy Will oil drown the Arab Spring? By Michael Ross Fiction Sez Ner By Arno Camenisch Snake By Rebecca Evanhoe Poetry When monkeys sing By Masayo Koike
December	Selected Articles More government, please! By Thomas Frank Fiction The first venom By Ben Marcus The good Samaritan By Joyce Carol Oates Poetry Card 19: The sun By Brenda Shaughnessy

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June 2012

WILD THINGS
Animal Nature, Human Racism, and the Future of Zoos
By David Samuels

MY OLD MAN
On the road, a Life real and Imagined
By Clancy Martin

Also: Richard Ford, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Underearners Anonymous--a new cure for a new disease?

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