January
- ‘Will Not Come Back’ Returns Derwent May
- A Different Approach to the World: An Interview George F. Kennan
- Edvard Munch: Self-Portraitist (Notes from a Diary) Robert Craft
- I Never Told Anybody Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home Kenneth Koch
- Imprisoned in the Sixties Garry Wills
- India: Renaissance or Continuity?
- Mad About the Boy Nigel Dennis
- Photography in Search of Itself Susan Sontag
- Talking of Michelangelo Ernst Gombrich
- The Arms Boom and How to Stop It Emma Rothschild
- The Not-So-Light Fantastic Michael Wood
- The Polish Resistance Wlodzimierz Brus, Leszek Kolakowski, Alfred Tarski, Piotr Slonimski, and Ignazio Silone, et al.
- The Shadow of the Furies Harold Rosenberg
- Waugh Letters Mark Amory
February
- A Question of Confidence H. Stuart Hughes
- An Appeal for Vasyl Fedorenko Vladimir Bukovsky and Leonid Plyushch
- An Exchange on Fiction John Cheever and Francine Gray, reply by Elizabeth Hardwick
- Argentine Terror Pablo Cabrera, reply by Mort Rosenblum
- Broken Blossoms V.S. Pritchett
- Capitalism & Socialism: Declining Returns Jason Epstein
- Couples Karl Miller
- Dragtime David Jackson
- Edmund Wilson’s Letters: To and About F. Scott Fitzgerald Edmund Wilson
- Free Paradjanov Herbert Marshall and Peter Broderick
- From Yeats to Yeats Richard Ellmann
- Ghosts Diane Johnson
- Imperial Germany’s Jewish Banker A.J.P. Taylor
- Inside Auden’s Landscape Irvin Ehrenpreis
- Iran’s “Progress” Thomas R. Moore, reply by Reza Baraheni
- Justice to Faust Walter Arndt, reply by Harry Levin
- Know It All Anthony Quinton
- Machines for Sentiment Garry Wills
- On Cavafy’s Side Joseph Brodsky
- Out of Print Paul Mankin
- Playboys Andrew Hacker
- Syphilis & Pineapples Theodor Rosebury, reply by Christopher Hill
- The Country with Five Frontiers Graham Greene
- The Refined and the Crude John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Society of Friends Luigi Barzini
- The True History of the Catholics in England Lawrence Stone
- Three Poems by Constantine Cavafy Constantine Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
- Turgenev in Baden V.S. Pritchett
- Unnatural Science P.B. Medawar
- Usage Arthur Steig, reply by Leon Wieseltier
- Vladimir Bukovsky: An Interview Vladimir Bukovsky
- Where All the Flowers Went Mark Crispin Miller
- Who Makes Movies? Peter Bogdanovich
- Who Makes Movies? John Bernard Myers, reply by Gore Vidal
- William Ross’s Poem Kenneth Koch
March
- ‘The Memory of Justice’: An Exchange Marcel Ophuls, John Henry Raleigh, and Victor Brombert, reply by Harold Rosenberg
- Bananas Thomas McCann, reply by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Bodin’s Demons Marion L. Kuntz, reply by Frances A. Yates
- Care Richard Murphy
- Children’s Storefront Ned O’Gorman
- Deconstructing Derrida Michael Wood
- Dissatisfactions of Power Clive James
- Edmund Wilson On Writers and Writing Edmund Wilson
- Edmund Wilson: Letters to John Dos Passos Edmund Wilson
- Forward with Muste David McReynolds
- Frontstage Wife Claire Tomalin
- Getting Away from It All Thomas R. Edwards
- Glorifying the Archaic Seth Benardete
- Hobbist Man Christopher Hill
- Igor Stravinsky: Obiter Dicta Igor Stravinsky
- Laboring Fabians Frank Kermode
- Life in the New Vietnam Andre Gelinas
- Martyrdom at the Met Garry Wills
- Not So Definitive Mary H. Aiken
- O’Keeffe’s Trail Barbara Rose
- Orphanage Boy (Octosyllabics) Robert Penn Warren
- Politics & IQ Allen Graubard
- Politics & IQ Larry Miller and Jon Beckwith, reply by P.B. Medawar
- Politics & IQ Edward O. Wilson, reply by P.B. Medawar
- Protest from Israel Noam Chomsky
- Reading the Goncourts John Russell, reply by Garry Wills
- Scoundrelzeit Martin Oppenheimer
- Selling the Sun Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway
- Socialist Celebrity William Phillips
- Southern Discomfort Robert Towers
- Stuttering Giant Frederick C. Crews
- Supergull Martin Gardner
- The Bloodiest Revolution Jean Lacouture
- The False Promise of Growth Robert L. Heilbroner
- The Future of Knowledge Stuart Hampshire
- The Ideal Grand Bourgeois C.B.A. Behrens
- The KGB in Georgia Peter B. Reddaway
- The Life and Death of Simone Weil J.M. Cameron
- The Revolt of Gershom Scholem Leon Wieseltier
- The Snow Man Denis Donoghue
- The Spiritual Life J.M.B. Crawford, reply by J.M. Cameron
- The Uses and Abuses of Art History Francis Haskell
- Turgenev and ‘Virgin Soil’ V.S. Pritchett
- Two Poems by John Ashbery John Ashbery
- Two Years That Shook the World Leonard Schapiro
- Under the Cranberry Tree Nicolas Nabokov
- Up the River Robert Towers
- Was Gogol Gay? Helen Muchnic
April
- A Fine Romance Michael Wood
- Comic Genius V.S. Pritchett
- Danger Zone? Bruce H. Thomson, reply by Graham Greene
- Declining Rock? Carolyn Porter, reply by Mark Crispin Miller
- From ‘The Yawning Heights’ Alexander Zinoviev, translated by William E. Harkins
- Gershom Scholem and the Fate of the Jews Leon Wieseltier
- Get a Lawyer! Eric Foner
- Hard Hit Women Diane Johnson
- Inside the Leviathan Aleksandr Nekrich
- Korea: The Trial of a Revolutionary Prophet Charles Douglas Lummis
- Melancholic and Magic History Stephen Spender
- News from the Workshop Neal Ascherson
- No Wonder Jonathan Kooperstein, reply by Frank Kermode
- Our Hearts Kenneth Koch
- Outcasts of the Island Bernard D. Nossiter
- Reading the Carter Riddle Garry Wills
- Short Reviews The Editors
- Story of a Scream Paul Auster
- Tea with Plums William E. Harkins, reply by Nicolas Nabokov
- The Confidence Man John K. Fairbank
- The Corruption of Sports Christopher Lasch
- The Moral World of Robinson Crusoe Irvin Ehrenpreis
- The Mysterious West Jeffery Paul Chan, reply by Diane Johnson
- The Rise of Private Man Sheldon S. Wolin
- The Temptations of Chaucer Gabriel Josipovici
- Three Photos of Colette William H. Gass
- Two Poems by Jan Kulka Jan Kulka, translated by Reuel Wilson
- Veritas at Harvard Sigmund Diamond
- What Caused the Explosion? William L. Langer
- Who Shot Aunt Sally? A.J.P. Taylor
- Words & Music Ned Rorem, reply by Robert Craft
- Wound to Soviet Science Michael F. Atiyah, Hyman Bass, Lipman Bers, Philip A. Griffiths, and Heisuke Hironaka, et al.
May
- ‘Lulu’ at the Met Robert Craft
- An Exchange on ‘Veritas at Harvard’ McGeorge Bundy and Eugene D. Genovese, reply by Sigmund Diamond
- Bang! Martin Gardner
- Cambodia: Corrections Jean Lacouture
- Carter and the End of Liberalism Garry Wills
- Carter’s Powerless Energy Policy Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway
- Chinese Shadows Simon Leys
- Crossman As Editor Mervyn Jones, reply by Clive James
- Deja Vu John Hollander
- Desperate Character Wilfrid Sheed
- Dolci and the Mafia Sumner M. Rosen, reply by Luigi Barzini
- Fortune Hunting Michael Wood
- He’d Rather Have Rights Marshall Cohen
- Help the Fabians John Kenneth Galbraith
- Hons and Huns Noel Annan
- Hostages Roger Sale
- How to Say Serious Things V.S. Pritchett
- Inside Chile’s Prisons Dore Ashton and Guillermo Nunez
- Let Him Go Nasser Afshar, Joan Baez, Reza Baraheni, Eric Bentley, and Kay Boyle, et al.
- Mrs. M. and the Masses John K. Fairbank
- Not a Conspiracy Judith Kroll, reply by Karl Miller
- The Age of Arsenic Neal Ascherson
- The Anti-Politics of Simone Weil Conor Cruise O’Brien
- The Hard Case of Yeats Denis Donoghue
- The New Vietnam: An Opposing View Earl Martin
- The Schicklgruber Story Alan Bullock
- The Spirit of Romanesque George Zarnecki
- The Stout Woman Dorothy Norman, reply by Barbara Rose
- The Triumph of the Virgin of Guadalupe J.H. Elliott
- They Win Every Time Robert Lekachman
- Walking Over Grandma Lawrence Stone
- Webern Mysteries Robert Craft
June
- ‘Running for President’ Garry Wills
- ‘Veritas’ Cont. Seymour Martin Lipset, reply by Sigmund Diamond
- A Farewell to Arms William Styron
- A New Israel Bernard Avishai
- An Exchange on the Russian Revolution Alexander Rabinowitch, Martha G. Krow-Lucal, and Michael H. Scrivener, reply by Leonard Schapiro
- Back to Nature Stephen Toulmin
- Breaking the Code Richard Sennett, reply by Sheldon S. Wolin
- Chinese Shadows: Bureaucracy, Happiness, History Simon Leys
- For John Berryman Robert Lowell
- Good for the Populists Aileen Kelly
- Goodbye to Britain Karl Miller
- In Defense of Empire Ernst Badian
- In Hardy Country Roger Sale
- Nabokov’s Game V.S. Pritchett
- Photography Unlimited Susan Sontag
- Play It Again, Franz Michael Wood
- Pleasures of Malice V.S. Pritchett
- Political Animal Christopher Hill
- Political Prisoners in Iran James D. Seymour, reply by Reza Baraheni
- RSVP Michael Wood
- Readings in Infanticide Richard G. Wilkinson, reply by William L. Langer
- Sticking to the Union Leo Panitch, reply by Frank Kermode
- The Art of Montale Joseph Brodsky
- The Crab P.B. Medawar
- The Politics of Joyce Richard Ellmann
- Three Poems by Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale, translated by G. Singh
- Tumult in the Clouds John William Ward
- Undeviating Noel Annan
- Unnatural Science, cont’d. P.B. Medawar
- Velvet Revolution? Charles Wilson
- Wandering in Wayes Unknowne Robert M. Adams
July
- ‘Veritas’ at Harvard: Another Exchange Robert N. Bellah, McGeorge Bundy, Clark Kerr, Marshall Cohen, and John Conway, et al.
- American Women in Their Place Willie Lee Rose
- An Oppressed Group Jack Richardson
- Brothers Robert Mazzocco
- Chez Atreus Bernard Knox
- Correcting ‘Chinese Shadows’ Elisabeth Sifton
- ESP at Random Martin Gardner
- Executions Robert Lowell
- For the Record Gore Vidal
- India’s Long Night Robert Towers
- Italy: The Politics of Culture Furio Colombo
- Mining Morris Geoffrey Grigson
- Old People’s Progress Nikki Stiller, reply by Lawrence Stone
- Russia, the West, and the Rest Ronald Steel
- Short Review The Editors
- That’s Life J.Z. Young
- The Precarious Country William Shawcross
- The Romantic Camera V.S. Pritchett
- Yeats’s Vision Robert Lowell, reply by Denis Donoghue
August
- A Late Victorian Love Affair Richard Ellmann
- An American in Cuba John Womack Jr.
- Auden and Vietnam John B. Myers, reply by Karl Miller
- Follow the Lieder Joseph Kerman
- How Apartheid Works Breyten Breytenbach
- How Not to Be a Critic Nigel Dennis
- Prague: The Story of the Chartists Tom Stoppard
- South Africa: The Death of Justice Martin Garbus
- Spain: Who Really Won? Barbara Probst Solomon
- Temptations Thomas R. Edwards
- The Black Upper Class Darryl Pinckney
- The Last Laugh George Plimpton
- The Right to Help Noam Chomsky and Andrzej Grzegorczyk
- What Happened in the Sixties? Mark Crispin Miller
- Winner Take Nothing Nicholas von Hoffman
- Writing from a Deceptive Continent Michael Wood
September
- A Heavy Legacy Michael Wood
- A Silent Ring Robert Towers
- Anti-Barbarian Conor Cruise O’Brien
- Cancer Larry Agran, reply by P.B. Medawar
- Carter and Arms: No Sale Emma Rothschild
- Chinese Shadows Stephen R. MacKinnon, reply by Simon Leys
- Corrupt Sports: An Exchange Eric Foner, Mark Naison, and Paul K. Hoch, reply by Christopher Lasch
- Cutting Mosley Robert Skidelsky, reply by Noel Annan
- Defending Dr. Hoeppli Alastair Morrison, reply by John K. Fairbank
- Freedom in Iran Olga Andreyev Carlisle, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Bentley, Francine du Plessix Gray, and Grace Paley, et al.
- Growing Old: An Exchange David Hackett Fischer, reply by Lawrence Stone
- Hitler: Hard to Resist John Kenneth Galbraith
- Invader V.S. Pritchett
- Letter from Las Vegas Robert Mazzocco
- Muddled Albert B. Friedman, reply by Richard Ellmann
- News from the Biennale Carlo Ripa di Meana
- Nixon’s Seventh Crisis Robert Towers
- Porn, Propaganda, and the Enlightenment C.B.A. Behrens
- Rigging the Lawrence Case Nigel Dennis
- Safety Last Andrew Hacker
- South African Justice Martin Garbus
- Stevens at the Crossing Denis Donoghue
- Suez William Phillips
- Survival of the Fittest? Henri Zerner
- The Chinese Dream Machine Jonathan D. Spence
- The Emergence of American Women Willie Lee Rose
- The Holes in Black Holes Martin Gardner
- The Scholarly Life James Nohrnberg, reply by Robert M. Adams
- The Trials of Bert and Jimmy Garry Wills
- The Wizard of the ‘Wizard’ Gore Vidal
- Two Edmund Burkes? Conor Cruise O’Brien
- What Was Wrong With Darwin? W.W. Bartley III
- Women at Home Richard Poirier
October
- A Matter of Character Anthony Lewis
- A Modern Master Gabriel Josipovici
- All or Nothing Raymond Carr
- An Appeal to the Heads of State and Government of the Thirty-five Countries that Signed the Helsinki Agreements Vladimir Bukovsky
- Being Strong: Edmund Wilson’s Letters Harry Levin
- Compacted Doctrines William Empson
- Darwin’s Complaint Ralph Colp Jr., reply by W.W. Bartley III
- Fear and DNA P.B. Medawar
- Go Back to the Cold! Clive James
- Human Rights in China
- Imposing Gibbon Ernst Badian
- Joyce’s Influenza Michael Wood
- Lear’s Inner Landscape V.S. Pritchett
- On Rereading the Oz Books Gore Vidal
- On the Western Front Helen Muchnic
- One-Man Band Robert Towers
- Police Power in Thailand David L. Morell
- Power to the Experts Thomas L. Haskell
- Psi and Science Charles T. Tart, reply by Martin Gardner
- Risorgimento and Romantic Agony John Weightman
- Robert Lowell 1917–1977 John Thompson
- Smilin’ Through Nigel Dennis
- The Assassins Daniel Schorr
- The Ruins of Walter Benjamin Charles Rosen
- The Shadow of the Great Betrayal Noel Annan
- Vautrin’s Cigar Susan Sontag, reply by Richard Ellmann
- Victims of Soviet Psychiatry: A Report from Honolulu Robert Coles
November
- ‘Elusive Mr. P.’ Conor Cruise O’Brien
- A Hard Case Garry Wills
- Astrology, Hockney, Schubert: A Musical Diary Robert Craft
- Cranberry Sauce Gleb Struve and Leonid Tarassuk, reply by Nicolas Nabokov
- Cranberry Sauce Leonid Tarassuk
- Cuba and Oscar Lewis: An Exchange Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon, and Alvin W. Gouldner, reply by John Womack Jr.
- Death in Argentina: An Appeal Marek Halter
- Fatal Attitudes Donald Davie
- Four Poems by Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Alastair Reid
- In Indonesian Prisons Huang Wen-hsien and David Hinkley
- Lawyers and Morals Steven R. Cohen, reply by Marshall Cohen
- Lives of the Gaolers D.J. Enright
- Mind and Body Lincoln Kirstein
- Robert Frost Crosses the Missouri Karl Miller
- Simone Weil’s Politics Raymond Rosenthal
- Stories of Art Kenneth Clark
- The Destruction of the Peasants Theodore Zeldin
- The Good & Great Works of Richard Hooker Hugh Trevor-Roper
- The Hobbit Habit Robert M. Adams
- The Lorca Murder Case Michael Wood
- The Oppressor in the Next Room Diane Johnson
- The Origins of Walter Benjamin Charles Rosen
- The Passions of Emile Zola V.S. Pritchett
- The Radiant Monster Rosemary Dinnage
- The Rise of Love J.H. Plumb
- The Round Table in Ruins Alison Lurie
- The School Play James Merrill
- The Siege of the Family Christopher Lasch
- The Triumph of Dr. Johnson Irvin Ehrenpreis
- The Wonder Man Helen Vendler
- What Happened in the Fifties Robert C. McKibben, reply by Mark Crispin Miller
- Why Bakke Has No Case Ronald Dworkin
- Words for the Shah Bella Abzug, Frank Allaun, Reza Baraheni, Eric Bentley, and Philip Berrigan, et al.
- You Can’t Go Home Again Bernard Avishai
December
- E. Wilson, Editor Brendan Gill, reply by Harry Levin
- Fabricated Man Nigel Dennis
- Gastro-Porn Alexander Cockburn
- Hurled into Vietnam Roger Sale
- Malraux and Death Jean-Marie Domenach, translated by Peter France
- Molière in New York Michael Wood
- Morality and War J.M. Cameron
- Only Disconnect Denis Donoghue
- Only Joking John Gribbin, reply by Martin Gardner
- Reflections on Political Scandal Renata Adler
- Release Pronyuk Vladimir Bukovsky
- Talkies John Hollander
- The King Mark Crispin Miller
- Top People Christopher Hill