- A Radical Field Marshal István Deák
- A Room of Her Own Helen Vendler
- A Season Joseph Brodsky
- After Palio Eugenio Montale, translated by Luciano Rebay
- Appointment in Samara C.L.R. James, reply by Leonard Schapiro
- Back to Evolution P.B. Medawar
- Before the Deluge Gabriele Annan
- Brecht in Asphalt Robert Brustein
- Claims for ESP Charles T. Tart, reply by Martin Gardner
- Dissent on Douglas Ronald Dworkin
- Do Israel’s Arabs Have a Future? Bernard Avishai
- Embers of Guilt Garry Wills
- Follow the Fleet John Keegan
- Friends and Enemies Bernard Avishai
- Hit Parade Clive James
- If Workers Were the Boss Ira Brous, reply by Robert L. Heilbroner
- In the Cards Frances A. Yates
- No Place for Heroes Tamar Jacoby
- No Sage Alexander Nehamas, reply by J.M. Cameron
- Original Sins Lawrence Stone
- Qualm John Ashbery
- Reagan and the Real America Emma Rothschild
- Repression in Latin America Rogers Albritton, George Boolos, Hector-Neri Castaneda, Stanley Cavell, and Noam Chomsky, et al.
- Restoring ‘Sister Carrie’ Alfred Kazin
- Secret Sharer Denis Donoghue
- Semi-Heroes V.S. Pritchett
- The Cold Comedian Robert M. Adams
- The Curse of the Guthries Murray Kempton
- The Health Crisis in the USSR Nick Eberstadt
- The Lights Go Down Erhard K. Dortmund, Arthur J. Cox, Jennifer Dunning, and Matthew Wilder, reply by Renata Adler
- The New Liszt Robert Craft
- The Russian God P.A. Vyazemsky, translated by Alan Myers
- The Second American Revolution? Gore Vidal
- The Spanish Style Raymond Carr
- To a Friend in Fall William Alfred
- Was Hiroshima Necessary? Another Exchange Dexter Masters and Geoffrey C. Ward, reply by Joseph W. Alsop and David Joravsky
- Were These Revolutions Necessary? Richard Lowenthal
- Zimbabwe: The Takeover Xan Smiley