The Meridian Archive

1989–2001

Issues

1989

AUGThe Show That Did Not OpenDECAfter the Wall: Letters from Berlin

1990

JANWhat Comes Through the Door FEBThe Die-In at the Cathedral MARThe Rehearsed Apology APRThe Largest Failure Yet MAYThe Capsule on the Cover JUNThe Innocent Victim JULOne Convicted, One Not AUGThe Longest Line at the DMV SEPThe Curb, Removed OCTThe Content of Our Character NOVEight Months on a Picket Line DECThe Republic, Rejoined

1991

JANThe Door Marked Diversity FEB2,245 MARBensonhurst, Again APRThe Hundred Hours MAYSold JUNOne Hundred Dollars JULThe Eye Without Film AUGThe Park, Cleared SEPThe Suites OCTFour Nights in Crown Heights NOVThe Interdiction DECCredibility

1992

JANOn His Own Terms FEBWhat the Fund Held MARThe Hollowing APRThe Third Wave MAYThe End of History JUNForced to Say It JULMurphy Brown's America AUGThe Convention Hotel's Empty Ballroom SEPThe Photographs He Left OCTA War for the Soul of America NOVAfter Shawn, After Gottlieb DECThe Quilt on the Mall

1993

JANThe Almanac Keeps Its Own Counsel FEBWhat the Bag Says, Quietly MARA Magazine Arrives From the Future Tense APRThe Building Held MAYThe Paper That Kept Almost Dying JUNThe Cicadas Come Back JULA Court in Honolulu Asks the Question First AUGThe Ship That Ran Out of Ocean SEPThe Free Exercise of It OCTThe Marquee Changes Hands NOVFifty-Seven Stations Said No DECThe City Changes Its Mind

1994

JANThe Island That Voted to Leave FEBThe Angel in the House MARThe Man Who Would Count Windows APRThe Prescription Economy MAYThe Table on Hudson Street JUNThe Silence in Aberdeen JULThe First Cup on Broadway AUGA Nation of Rafts SEPTwo Marches, One Anniversary OCTThe Last Laugh NOVThe Plan That Died in September DECThe Zone Above 96th Street

1995

JANThe Majority Makers FEBOne Dial, Two Signals MARThe Next Bohemia APRThe Factory Closes MAYOpen Luxury JUNThe Building on Fifth Street JULThe Lease on 42nd Street AUGBrighton Beach, Held SEPThe Paper That Closed OCTThe Last Tour NOVThe Verdict, Split DECThe Map, Redrawn

1996

JANThe Word She Chose FEBThe Pill That Argues With the Virus MARWhat the Plows Missed APRWhat the Lawyers Cut MAYAfter the Dancing Ordinance JUNWhat Thirty Years Bought JULThe Machine Starts Charging AUGThe Lease That Confirmed It SEPThe Cocktail OCTThe File That Follows You NOVThe Signature and the Numbers DECThe First Since '78

1997

JANA Ballot Measure and the Line It Draws FEBThe Word for the Vote MARThe Number Going Down APRThe Quiet Quarter MAYThe Procession JUNForty-Two Million JULThe Look and the Death Behind It AUGThe Empty Booth SEPWho a Vacant Apartment Belongs To OCTThe Precinct House NOVThe Recall Nobody Wanted to Write DECThe Year-End Ledger

1998

JANThe House Reopens FEBThe Mogul's Ledger MARThe Story Newsweek Killed APRThe Club King's Acquittal MAYThe Surplus Nobody Spends JUNRetail, Reconsidered JULThe Writer Who Made It Up AUGA Disability, Not Yet a Symptom SEPThe Last Quiet Week OCTThe Season Nobody Wanted to Cover NOVRead at the Desk DECFourteen Banks in a Room

1999

JANWhat Comes Down FEBThe Second Set of Books MARThe Family Business APRNineteen Shots MAYThe Thirty-Five Day Hold JUNThe Loft Floor JULThe Reprise AUGFour Times Square SEPThe Grid, After Dark OCTThe Late Summer Lull NOVThe Drive, Underwater DECThe First Class

2000

JANThe Boy in Little Havana FEBThe Non-Event MARWhat Cooks Confess APRForty-One Shots, No Verdict MAYThe Buy-and-Bust JUNJudgment for the Defense JULThe Cardinal's New York AUGDownload Nation SEPWhat a State Can Do OCTThe Network's Numbers NOVAfter the Open Bar DECOne City, Two Dugouts

2001

JANWhat the Ticker Forgot FEBHow It Was Decided MARTen Hours, One Argument APRThe Soft Landing MAYWhere It Went JUNThe Class of 2001 JULThe Certificate Expires AUGAugust Standing Still SEPThe Nine Judges and the Song OCTThe Season's Arguments NOVThe Eleventh DECThe Ward That Didn't Close

2002

JANThe Turn of the Year