1950, "Damned busy painting" / T. J. Clark
1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford ; "The Catcher in the Rye" / Gish Jen ; James Jones's "From Here to Eternity" / Lindsay Waters ; A soft voice / M. Lynn Weiss
1952, Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood / Michael Ventura ; C. L. R. James / Donald E. Pease
1953, The song in country music / Dave Hickey
1954, Wallace Stevens's "Collected poems" / Helen Vendler
1955, "The self-respect of my people" / Monica L. Miller ; A. J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight / Carlo Rotella ; A generation in miniature / Richard Candida Smith ; Nabokov's "Lolita" / Stephen Schiff
1956, "Roll Over Beethoven" / James Miller
1957, Dr. Seuss / Philip Nel
1959, "Nobody's perfect" / William J. Mann
1960, "Psycho" / William Beard ; More than a game / Michael MacCambridge
1961, JFK's inaugural address and "Catch-22" / Charles Taylor ; The author as advertisement / David Thomson
1962, Bob Dylan writes "Song to Woody" / Joshua Clover ; "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art" / Howard Hampton
1963, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / George Hutchinson
1964, Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" / Peter Sacks ; "The last stand on earth" / Gary Kamiya
1965, The Council on Interracial Books for Children / Dianne Johnson ; "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" / David Bradley
1968, Norman Mailer / Mary Gaitskill ; The illusory babels of language / Hal Foster ; The plight of conservative literature / Michael Kimmage
1969, Eilzabeth Bishop's "Complete poems" / Laura Quinney ; The first Asian Americans / Hua Hsu ; The eye of Vietnam / Thi Phuong-Lan Bui
1970, Maya Angelou, Toni MOrrison, Alice Walker / Cheryl A. Wall ; Linda Lovelace / Anne Marlowe
1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio ; Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" / Maureen N. McLane
1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally
1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin
1982, Edmund White's "A Boy's Own Story" / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum ; "Wild Style" / Mua Hsu ; Maya Lin's wall / Anne M. Wagner ; Harriet Wilson / Saidiya V. Hartman
1985, Henry Roth / Mario Materassi
1987, Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" / Seio Young Chu
1995, Philip Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher
2001, 21st-century free verse / Stephen Burt
2003, Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing" / Greil Marcus
2005, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors
2008, Barack O'Bama / Kara Walker.
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