| Utne Reader 1996 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| Age-busters. (melatonin and Dehydroepiandrosterone hormones) | General interest | Nathaniel Mead |
| Am I an adult yet? (includes related article)(excerpt from 'New Passages') | General interest | Gail Sheehy |
| Among the promise keepers: an inside look at the evangelical men's movement. | General interest | Jeff Wagenheim |
| A new Declaration of Independence: how to win back our freedom from the technocrats. | General interest | Charles Siegel |
| Are you grown-up yet?(Cover Story) | General interest | Eric Utne |
| Arms: father and son grapple over guns in the Mississippi Delta. | General interest | Steve Yarbrough |
| A world of half-adults. (excerpt from 'The Sibling Society')(Cover Story) | General interest | Robert Bly |
| A world of hurt: why your doctor is afraid to ease your pain. | General interest | Vicki Brower |
| Beyond mind and body: reflections of a movie muscleman. (actor Dolph Lundgren)(Interview) | General interest | Michael Schulze |
| Bucking biopiracy: what activists are doing stem the tide. | General interest | Martin Khor |
| Buried alive. (Chernobyl, Russia)(reprinted from Earth Island Journal, Summer 1995) | General interest | Vladimir Chernousenko |
| Butch nouveau: hundreds of new ways to be a dyke. (lesbian lifestyles) | General interest | Michele Fisher |
| Cagemates: why animals and humans can't escape from each other.(Wild at Heart)(Cover Story) | General interest | Tad Friend |
| Can imagination save us? Thinking about the future with beginner's mind. | General interest | Susan Griffin |
| Casual day casualties: getting uptight about dressing down. | General interest | Mary Scott |
| Celibate passion. (advantages of celibacy) | General interest | Kathleen Norris |
| Chill pills: 21 ways to reduce workday stress. | General interest | Saki Santorelli |
| Citizenship or slavery? (volunteer work for school students) | General interest | Andrea Martin |
| Confessions of a quit addict. (woman's story about quitting)(includes related article about a quitter)(Just Quit) | General interest | Barbara Wood Graham |
| Cyberpets: their barks are worse than their bytes.(Wild at Heart)(Cover Story) | General interest | Robert Rossney |
| Dicey propositions. (gambling boom and brand-new problems) | General interest | Jo-Ann Johnston |
| Do ask, do tell: TV talk shows may be crass and voyeuristic, but they give a voice to those who have been silenced. | General interest | Joshua Gamson |
| Down for the count. (journalists and erroneous statistics) | General interest | Jeff Reid |
| Faux feminists: the GOP schemes to co-opt the women's movement. | General interest | Sandy M. Fernandez |
| Getting back to the wrong nature. (the definition of 'wilderness') | General interest | William Cronon |
| Global culture is globaloney.(Currents: The Diversity Debate: Counterpoint) | General interest | Jason Clay |
| Golf war syndrome: how playing 18 holes endangers the earth. | General interest | Elaine Robbins |
| Good NAFTA? (North American Free Trade Agreement and Mexican economic interests) | General interest | Kevin J. Kelley |
| Hard choices. (a woman's story about her abortions) | General interest | Heather King |
| Hearts of oak. (efforts to save the English landscape) | General interest | John Vidal |
| Heroes and holy innocents. (Hollywood portrayal of the disabled) | General interest | Kathi Wolfe |
| High-tech piracy. (genetic engineering, bioprospecting and biopiracy) | General interest | Andrew Kimbell |
| Holly Hughes: performance artist.(Interview) | General interest | Rebecca Scheib |
| Ill-humor man: how selling ice cream is a lot like dealing crack. | General interest | Marty Smith |
| Invitation to a wedding: can gay life survive legal marriage? | General interest | Laura Markowitz |
| Islands of doom. (nature preserve systems)(reprinted from Sierra, September-October 1995) | General interest | Dave Foreman |
| It's a dog's love: what dogs teach us about ourselves.(Wild at Heart)(Cover Story) | General interest | Stephen H. Webb |
| Joy and doubt on the Mall: the Million Man March and me. | General interest | Glenn C. Loury |
| Judging the jury. (American justice system evaluated) | General interest | Miles Harvey |
| KFC and the battle for India's soul. (closure of India's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet) | General interest | Bill McKibben |
| King rats. (Drug Enforcement Administration criminal informants)(reprinted from Prison Life, January-February 1996) | General interest | Michael Levine |
| Krassner's complaint: what ever happened to obscenity? | General interest | Paul Krassner |
| Little big top. (flea circus) | General interest | Marilyn Berlin Snell |
| Lost in the wild: is our obsession with pristine nature hazardous to the environment? | General interest | Martha Coventry, Joshua Glenn |
| Making a contribution: America depends on nonprofit groups.(Working Assets: Guide to Making a Difference) | General interest | |
| Mapping the territory: the Human Genome Diversity Project searches for cures, not profits. | General interest | Hank Greely |
| My cry for wilderness. (Utah's canyonlands)(reprinted from National Parks, November-December 1995) | General interest | Terry Tempest Williams |
| Nader wins! ('Utne Reader' magazine's 1996 presidential preference survey) | General interest | |
| Not for public consumption: when are breasts obscene? | General interest | Pete Kotz |
| Not speaking French: lessons from my son's monolingualism. | General interest | G. Bosch |
| One man talking: the world's better off without rare languages. | General interest | Kenan Malik |
| Packwood's harem boy: scenes from a sexualized Senate. | General interest | Tom Carson |
| Pharmaceutical giant shares the wealth: Merck funds research and development in Costa Rica. (excerpt from Issues in Science and Technology) | General interest | Walter V. Reid |
| Political pets: pawprints in the corridors of power.(Wild at Heart)(Cover Story) | General interest | Richard Klein |
| Politics at the cash register: what you buy and where you buy it affects your community and the world. (includes related article)(Working Assets: Guide to Making a Difference) | General interest | |
| Portrait of a new man. (transsexual Loren Cameron) | General interest | Susan Stryker |
| Queen for a day? One woman among the million men. | General interest | Debra Dickerson |
| Quitter's paradise. (Terlingua, Texas) | General interest | Robert Draper |
| Rage and a haircut: what Andy Warhol taught me about human freedom. | General interest | David Hickey |
| Reinvigorating democracy in America: what you can do to reform our politics.(Working Assets: Guide to Making a Difference) | General interest | |
| Savage customs: Canada is busting gay magazines at the border. | General interest | Mark Leiren-Young |
| Starless nights: light pollution extinguishes the stars.(Gleanings) | General interest | Arthur R. Upgren |
| Stealing wisdom, stealing seeds: the neem tree of India becomes a symbol of greed. | General interest | Vandana Shiva |
| Taking back Washington and the State Capitol, county board and city council.(Working Assets: Guide to Making a Difference) | General interest | |
| Talk back to the media: as a media activist, you can wage guerrilla journalism.(Working Assets: Guide to Making a Difference) | General interest | |
| The 7 deadly virtues. (virtues for idlers) | General interest | Tom Hodgkinson |
| The art of the nap: handy tips from a master snoozer. (excerpt from 'The American Scholar,' Summer 1995) | General interest | Joseph Epstein |
| The beauty of body bags: a hospital nurse meditates on death. | General interest | Kaija Blalock |
| The death of a journalist. (writer Dial Torgerson) | General interest | Lynda Schuster |
| The Durning point. (urban ecologist Alan Durning) | General interest | Paul Roberts |
| The enigma of Kerala. (a poor state in India disproves maxims regarding the rich and the poor) (excerpt from 'Double Take') | General interest | Bill McKibben |
| The father fixation. (family and social problems) | General interest | Judith Stacey |
| The gift of a dead mouse: how our cats train us.(Wild at Heart)(Cover Story) | General interest | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
| The gifts of growing old: an interview with Robert Bly. (poet; author)(Interview)(Cover Story) | General interest | |
| The greening of Ulster: the North is discovering its Irish soul. | General interest | Kevin J. Kelley |
| The Islamic Gulag: slavery makes a comeback in Sudan.(In Brief) | General interest | Steve Askin, Carole J.L. Collins |
| The lost girls. (China; gender gap) | General interest | Luise Cardarelli |
| The music of democracy. (interview with Wynton Marsalis)(Currents)(Interview) | General interest | Tony Scherman |
| The natural step: Sweden's commonsense green scheme comes to America. | General interest | Mary Scott |
| The net nobody knows. (Internet directory)(Directory) | General interest | Denise Caruso |
| The nitty-gritty of Nirvana: monk-turned-professor Robert Thurman preaches a politics of enlightenment. (Interview with Robert Thurman)(Interview) | General interest | John Glenn |
| The power of integrity: eight ways to save democracy. | General interest | Stephen L. Carter |
| The quitting way. (how to become a quitter)(includes quotes on quitting)(Just Quit!) | General interest | Evan Harris |
| The secret of solitude. (benefits of solitude) | General interest | Helen Cordes |
| The shame game: is shame nothing to be ashamed of? | General interest | Lynette Lamb |
| The sharebots: how robots learn to get along. | General interest | Carl Zimmer |
| The strange and exciting fruits of global culture.(Currents: The Diversity Debate: Point) | General interest | Pico Iyer |
| To the left vroom! (victory of the New Democratic Party in British Columbia) | General interest | Mark Leiren-Young |
| Tough love. (East L.A. mothers organize to save their children's lives) (except from the 'Los Angeles Times Magazine') | General interest | Celeste Fremon |
| Transnationals with a conscience: some drug companies are trying to do the right thing. (from 'Interciencia') | General interest | Steven R. King, Thomas J. Carlson |
| Under the thumb. (a woman talks about how she became a poet) | General interest | |
| Unfit to print: the top 10 censored stories of 1995. | General interest | Larry Smith |
| Valley of the dammed: journey to the stupidest construction site on earth.(dam on China's Yangtze River) | General interest | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Watch your mouth! New laws could gag critics of unsafe food. | General interest | Helen Cordes |
| What really matters: volunteers make all the difference in your community.(Working Assets: Guide to Making a Difference) | General interest | |
| What rural is: fifteen ways of being in the country.(Gleanings) | General interest | Steven Horowitz |
| Where's Papa? (decline of fatherhood) | General interest | David Popenoe |
| Where the wild things aren't: pets can't fulfill our needs. (excerpt from 'The Others: How Animals Made Us Human')(Wild at Heart)(Cover Story) | General interest | Paul Shepard |
| Why get married? ('living in sin' as a sound fiscal decision) | General interest | Andrea Martin |
| Why I don't live in Jerusalem: the holy city is a pain in the neck.(Gleanings) | General interest | Hillel Halkin |
| Why the right is wrong. (US politics)(reprinted from Commonweal, February 23, 1996) | General interest | E.J. Dionne Jr. |
| Willem Dafoe. (interview with actor)(Interview) | General interest | |
| Wonder breasts: on pasties, bullet bras, and a tenderness for things beautiful and fleeting. (includes related article on self-exams) | General interest | Carly Sommerstein |
| Written on the flyleaf: the passionate world of book inscriptions. | General interest | Anne Fadiman |
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