Cease This Madness — Our Collision Course with the USSR — by George F. Kennan
The New Snobbery: How to Show Off in America by John Brooks
The Rise of the Newsocracy: All the News All the Time by Louis Banks
New England Recaptured: The World of the Howes Brothers by Richard Wilbur
Understanding Islam: No More Holy Wars — Toward a Christian-Muslim Dialogue — by Harvey Cox
FICTION:
“Saints” by William Trevor
“The Honored Dead” by B. D’J Pancake
“Cleaving” — An Atlantic First by Michael Cunningham — Early fiction by Pulitzer Prize winning Cunningham (The Hours, 1999), referred to here as “a prizewinner in the American Short Story Contest last spring, studied writing at the University of Iowa and is currently a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.”
POETRY:
“My Mother’s Chess” by David Solway
“Wildfire” by Dave Smith
“The Laughter of Women” by Peter Davison
“Magician” by Gary Miranda
REPORTS & COMMENT:
Nigeria: Oil-Rich and Nervous by Pranay Gupte
Energy: The Myth of Independence by Stephen Chapman