- ‘Brecht in Context’ John Willett
- ‘Nuclear Temptations’: An Exchange Albert Wohlstetter, reply by Theodore H. Draper
- ‘The White-Boned Demon’ Ross Terrill, reply by Judith Shapiro and Liang Heng
- An American Education Thomas R. Edwards
- An Exchange on Mother Goose Jack Zipes and Irving B. Harrison, reply by Robert Darnton
- Excelsior! Keith Thomas
- Fascinatin’ Modulation Bayan Northcott
- Forster’s Shadow Stephen Spender
- Good Pix from Stix Robert Towers
- Heaven Can’t Wait Edmund S. Morgan
- Horacescope D.S. Carne-Ross
- How Guilty Were the Germans? István Deák
- Lermontov’s Demon Henry Gifford
- One for the Road Harold Pinter
- Pie in the Sky Hal Draper
- Real Guys Howard Moss
- Royalty and Genius Robert M. Adams, reply by Daniel Albright
- Saving the Western Alliance Helmut Schmidt
- Scrabbling in the ‘Wake’ Robert M. Adams
- Sex & Superstition Peter Singer
- Stories of Malamud Nina Pelikan Straus, reply by John Leonard
- That Uncertain Feeling William Paul, reply by Rhoda Koenig
- The Bells of Orvieto Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated by Paul Schmidt
- The Burial of Cambodia William Shawcross
- The Case of Raza Kazim Eqbal Ahmad, Ramsey Clark, Richard A. Falk, Marcus G. Raskin, and Edward W. Said, et al.
- The Egyptian Murder Case Bernard Lewis
- The Game of Lights Janet Malcolm
- The Guiding Light Edward I. Koch, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- The Invisible Man Luc Sante
- The Keenest Critic M.H. Abrams
- The Outcasts of Iran Shaul Bakhash
- The Vicar’s Revenge Stanley Hoffmann
- Twice-Born Rosemary Dinnage
- Why TVA Failed Jane Jacobs