- ‘I Am Prepared for Anything’ Jerzy Popieluszko, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewski
- A Christmas Roundup Robert Craft
- A Traveling Man Michael Wood
- American Communism: An Exchange Elmer A. Benson and Robert Claiborne, reply by Hal Draper
- An Exchange on Automation B. Kuttner, reply by James Fallows
- An Interview with Ricardo Howard Moss
- Betwixt, Bothered & Bewildered Mary Douglas
- Can the US Compete? Francis T. Ventre, reply by Lester C. Thurow
- Cheever, or The Ambiguities Elizabeth Hardwick
- Correction Gabriele Annan
- Crackdown in Yugoslavia Richard J. Bernstein, Norman Birnbaum, Robert S. Cohen, Noam Chomsky, and Drucilla Cornell, et al.
- Difficult Daughter Oliver Taplin
- Embarrassing Colony Richard M. Morse
- Giants in Dwarfs’ Jackets D.S. Carne-Ross
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part II. Derek Walcott
- Grand Chutzpah Simon Schama
- In a Cuban Prison Samuel Farber
- Inscrutable Genius Gabriele Annan
- Israel: The Divisions of ‘Unity’ Bernard Avishai
- King in a Corner Alistair Horne
- Light and Lively Robert Towers
- Mrs. Wallace’s Subsidy Barnabas McHenry, reply by Robert L. Herbert
- No Entrance David Cannadine
- On Art and Money Robert Hughes
- On the Frontier Ian Hacking
- Panic in the South George M. Fredrickson
- Parfit Gentil Knights R.C. Smail
- Senegal Kenneth Koch
- Shrinking Michelangelo Ellen Handler Spitz, reply by Leo Steinberg
- Shrinking Michelangelo Bernard Knox, reply by The Editors
- Sly Signature George P. Savidis
- Sons and Lovers Brigid Brophy
- Sweet Evening Breeze Darryl Pinckney
- The Alchemist Dramatist Harry Levin
- The Evolution of Margaret Mead Stephen Toulmin
- The Family Way Susan D. Amussen, reply by G.R. Elton
- The Godfather’s Grandfather Robert M. Adams
- The Ideal Husband Rosemary Dinnage
- The Patient Is Always Right Janet Malcolm
- The Voyage of Watteau Francis Haskell