- A Letter to My Scientific Colleagues Andrei D. Sakharov
- A Nymph of the New Alfred Kazin
- Aimez-Vous Brecht? James Fenton
- All the King’s Men Daniel Albright
- American Roulette Felix G. Rohatyn
- An Exchange on Dominoes MacGregor Knox and Richard Edes Harrison, reply by Theodore H. Draper
- Another De Profundis! Robert D. Pepper
- Beliefs of a Master Lincoln Kirstein
- Bishop’s Prose Gift Robert Giroux, reply by Helen Vendler
- Closely Watched Trains Leo Marx
- Closet Modern Bernard Knox
- Conrad by Daylight Frederick C. Crews
- Corrections Alfred J. Ayer
- Cracking ‘The Golden Bowl’ John Bayley, reply by Gore Vidal
- Death in the Family Robert Craft
- Deeper into the Mire James Chace
- Fable of the Poor Noel Annan
- History Lessons Gordon S. Wood
- In Love with the Adverb Gore Vidal
- Interpreting the Interpreter Jonathan Lieberson
- Israel in Embryo Conor Cruise O’Brien
- Let Us Calculate Alfred J. Ayer
- Making It in the USSR Mark Kuchment
- Marriage à la Mode Judith Shapiro and Liang Heng
- Marx and Freedom Bertell Ollman, reply by Andrzej Walicki
- Massacre in Guatemala: An Exchange M.S. S., reply by Aryeh Neier
- Mother and Son Anthony West
- Nabokov’s Passion Edmund White
- Neopersuasion Amartya Sen
- Nuclear Policy Stanley Diamond, Dell Hymes, Eleanor Leacock, Rayna Rapp, and Ashley Montagu
- Nuclear Readings Jonathan Schell, reply by George W. Ball
- On Robert Lowell Derek Walcott
- Oscar at Oxford Richard Ellmann
- Quanta Roger Shattuck
- Quiz Kids Martin Gardner
- Safety Last Robert Goff
- Satan Comes to Eden Vernon Young, reply by Luc Sante
- Slithering over the Brink James Joll
- Surviving in the Ruins V.S. Pritchett
- The Bloom Is Off Eleanor Perenyi
- The Costs of Reaganism Emma Rothschild
- The Future of Baby Doe Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
- The Hidden History of Emancipation Eric Foner
- The New Eighteenth Century Lawrence Stone
- The Power of the Doctors Arnold Relman
- The Sohoiad: Or, the Masque of Art: a Satire in Heroic Couplets Drawn from Life Junius Secundus
- The Two George Groszes John Willett
- Triumph of a Naturalist Stephen Jay Gould
- Twilight of the Quads David Piper
- Violence in South Africa Ira J. Sandperl