Ten Years Ago in ‘Spy’

Reliving one’s formative years of logrolling, short-fingered vulgarians and Separations at Birth

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We hereby cast our eye back on Spy, “The New York Monthly” – that exemplar of “irony,” memorably belligerent, bilious adjective chains, and thrillingly recherché typography, from which our entire writing style (and ironic, memorable, belligerent, bilious, and recherché personality) derived.

Where possible, we do actually attempt to stick to a precise ten-year retrospective, but we reserve the right to mix and match. Updated at least monthly.

Ten Years Ago in ‘Spy’

• This month’s issue: April 1989
• Last month’s: February 1993
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Back issues solicited

I have a highly incomplete pile o’ Spy. If you’ve got any of the issues I need, talk to me. Anything after 1993 I am not in a big rush to acquire. Before that, of course, is gold.

Year	Got	Need
1988	3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11	1, 12
1989	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11	1, 12
1990	2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12	1, 3, 8
1991	1–2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12	4, 5, 7, 8
1992	2, 3, 4, 5, 7–8, 9, 10, 11	1, 12
1993	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11	12
1994	Nil	All
1995	4	1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12