- A Bachward Glance Joseph Kerman
- A Genius for Revenge Rhoda Koenig
- Abortion and the Law Louis Seidman, reply by Lawrence Sager
- After Jonestown Diane Johnson
- Borderline Cases John M. Crewdson
- Destiny’s Tots Christopher Jencks
- Digging In Irvin Ehrenpreis
- Good Housekeeping C. Vann Woodward
- Greece Against Itself Peter Green
- In the Latino Americano Mirror Michael Wood
- Innocents Patricia Craig
- Just Plain Will Robert M. Adams
- Justice to Mrs. Tolstoy Aileen Kelly
- Mark Chapman’s Family Murray Kempton
- Master Illusionist Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Modern Times Jeremy Bernstein
- Mrs. Chesnut’s Affair Kenneth S. Lynn, reply by William Styron
- O’Connor’s Crab-apple Jelly Richard Ellmann
- On Michelangelo’s Mind Michael Baxandall
- Sex and Fashion Alison Lurie
- Short Reviews The Editors
- Something for Your Entire Family Victoria Hamilton
- Tehran Winter V.S. Naipaul
- The Azadovsky Affair Joseph Brodsky
- The Bitter History of Slave History Ernst Badian
- The Buck Stops Here Marshall Frady
- The Case of Prof. Stastny Stanley Hoffmann, Sidney Verba, Adam B. Ulam, Noam Chomsky, and Stanley Rothman, et al.
- The Hunger Strikers Denis Donoghue
- The Inferiority Complex Richard C. Lewontin
- The Kennedy Solution Toby Cohen
- The Silent Majority Jonathan Lieberson
- The Unpalatable Azadeh Esteglal
- The Young Pretender Murray Kempton
- Three Poems by Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale, translated by Robert Lowell
- Unspeakable News Neal Ascherson
- Verifying Genocide Robert W. Creamer, reply by Gore Vidal
- What the Doctor Ordered Jules Geller, reply by Robert Darnton