- An American Sissy Gore Vidal
- An Exchange on the New Grove Roger Scruton and Bea Friedland, reply by Charles Rosen
- China: How Much Dissent? Jonathan D. Spence
- Death in Iran Walter Abish, Aijaz Ahmad, Eqbal Ahmad, Edward Albee, and John Ashbery, et al.
- Fall of a House X
- In the Southern Camp William Styron
- Is Mathematics for Real? Martin Gardner
- It’s the Argument Steven Kovacs, reply by Michael Wood
- Life With Father Roger Sale
- Lincoln Shelter Lincoln Kirstein
- Striking Out James Wolcott
- The Disappointments of Jefferson Gordon S. Wood
- The Gambler’s Throw Stuart Hampshire
- The Glow of Irreality Stephen Spender
- The New American Dream Tom Hayden, reply by David Vogel
- The Victory of the New Israel Bernard Avishai
- Up from Monetarism and Other Wishful Thinking John Kenneth Galbraith