- ‘A Roaring Positive Fellow’ V.S. Pritchett
- ‘Assault on Truth’ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- A Commencement Address Joseph Brodsky
- A Dangerous Occupation Scott MacLeod
- Between You and Your Genes Stephen Jay Gould
- Chomsky’s ‘Fateful Triangle’: An Exchange Edward W. Said, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Walzer, reply by Avishai Margalit
- Comic, Sad, Indefinite Rosemary Dinnage
- Elsewhere Derek Walcott
- Haunted Places Michael Wood
- Histoire Harry Mathews
- Lost Years Irina Ratushinskaya, translated from the Russian by Philip Balla
- Not Swann’s Way Roger Shattuck
- Rhineland MacGregor Knox, reply by Theodore H. Draper
- Snapshots of the Photographer Jonathan Lieberson
- Somebody Out There Elizabeth Hardwick
- The Election and After Edmund G. Brown Jr., Walter Dean Burnham, Kevin Phillips, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- The Secret of Danny Santiago John Gregory Dunne
- Who Cares? Roger Rosenblatt