- ‘Unacceptable Damage’ Lewis Thomas
- Chaplin and Lubitsch David Shipman, reply by Dwight Macdonald
- Coetzee Is Available T.G. Rosenthal
- Death Row Philip C. Brasfield
- Death Row L.M. Jendrzejczyk
- Ecstasy Robert M. Adams
- Genes & Culture Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson
- In a Grim Country William Shawcross
- On the Indian World-Mountain Robert Towers
- Patriot Noel Annan
- Ravings of a Renegade James Joll
- Reagan’s Deficit Curtis Crawford, reply by Lester C. Thurow
- Scaffolding of Lies Leonard Schapiro
- The ‘Shadow’ and the Substance Robert Craft
- The Flood Next Time D.J. Enright
- The Message of the Insider Murray Kempton
- The Road from Pisa to Florence Nicholas Christopher
- The UN Tango Murray Kempton
- Timerman and His Enemies Michael Walzer
- Two Cheers for Ike Ronald Steel
- Two by Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov
- Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980 Joseph Brodsky, translated by Alan Myers
- Who Brought Home the Bacon? S.L. Washburn and Sharon Ranieri