- A Case of Hysteria Charles Rycroft
- A Simple Problem Science Can’t Solve Richard C. Lewontin
- Apple Pie Samuel Engle Burr Jr., reply by Gordon S. Wood
- Battle over Berlioz Charles Rosen
- Beer, Onions, and Damnation D.J. Enright
- Darn that Darning Diane Johnson
- Force de Frappe Robert O. Paxton
- I’m the Greatest! Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Illegitimacy Patricia Storace
- Missiles for Europe? Mark N. Kramer, reply by George W. Ball
- Not So Close to Colette Gabriele Annan
- Poland’s Past Jozef Kasparek, reply by Martin Malia
- Poland’s Past Elisabeth Labrousse
- Poland’s Past Alex Kurczaba
- Reagan’s Star Wars Kurt Gottfried, Henry W. Kendall, Hans A. Bethe, Peter A. Clausen, and Richard L. Garwin, et al.
- The Joy and Malice of It All Robert M. Adams
- The King of Correspondence Irvin Ehrenpreis
- The Love Songs of Alfred J. Hitchcock Michael Wood
- The Master Linguist Joseph Frank
- The New Sound of Liszt Charles Rosen
- The Reagan Variety Show James Fallows
- The Real Me Harold Bloom
- The Rites of Martha Graham Howard Moss
- The Sakharovs in Gorky Natalya Viktorovna Hesse and Vladimir Tolz
- The Schools Flunk Out Andrew Hacker
- The Solace of Intrigue V.S. Pritchett
- The Surprise of Solidarity Neal Ascherson
- Turing & the System Howard Stern and Lorraine Daston, reply by Stephen Toulmin
- Unheard Melodies Irvin Ehrenpreis
- Welcome to Munciekin Land Gerald Weales