- ‘Prince of the City’ Jay Presson Allen, reply by Murray Kempton
- ‘The New Grove’ cont’d. Stanley Sadie, reply by Charles Rosen
- ‘There Is No Penance Due to Innocence’ William Empson
- A Close Encounter Gunther S. Stent
- All Too Real Helen Vendler
- Back Issues Elizabeth Hardwick
- Bottoms Up Julian Symons
- Czech Nightmares Werner Paul, translated by Gitta Honegger
- Dartmouth Medal The Editors
- Death by a Thousand Cuts Lester C. Thurow
- Death in the Philippines John M. Gates
- Death in the Philippines David Nielsen, reply by Gore Vidal
- Death in the Philippines Russell Roth
- Empire Building John Keegan
- Fall and Decline Shaul Bakhash
- Happy Endings Christopher Lasch
- Holes in the Fence Edward Abbey, reply by John M. Crewdson
- How Guilty Were the French? Patrice Higonnet
- Intruders Richard Poirier
- Missing Person Dore Ashton, Aaron Asher, Louise Bernikow, Bell Chevigny, and Ronald Christ, et al.
- Music Does Not Flow Virgil Thomson
- Never-Never-Land V.S. Pritchett
- One Culture Rudolf Peierls
- Pas de deux John Russell
- Poem for the End of the Year Mary Gordon
- Proto-Photo Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
- Reaganomics and Economics James Tobin
- Relic Luc Sante
- Short Reviews The Editors
- That Old Black and White Magic Clive James
- The Berlin Wall Tune Joseph Brodsky
- The Clowning Victim Alan Pryce-Jones
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Richard Cobb
- The Novelist as Pedagogue John Bayley
- The Professor Knows Richard Wollheim
- The Trap of Rearmament James Fallows
- The Triumph of Matthew Arnold Noel Annan
- Uncle Wiz the Wizard Lincoln Kirstein
- Vietnam: An Exchange Arthur H. Westing and Carol E. Westing, reply by William Shawcross
- Washington at War Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing Janet Malcolm
- Wolfe’s Tale John Eldergill