- ‘Hollywood Reds’ Arnold Dolin and Paul Jarrico, reply by John Gregory Dunne
- ‘Literary Domestics’ Mary Kelley, reply by Diane Johnson
- ‘Proto-Industrialization’ Franklin Mendels, reply by Lawrence Stone
- A Hard Act to Follow Murray Kempton
- Among the Republicans V.S. Naipaul
- Animated Paradox Robert M. Adams
- Discovery Joan Didion
- First Use John Clarke, reply by Lord Zuckerman
- First Use Gershon Silins
- Footnote to a Desperate Letter John Hollander
- Galapagos Affair, cont’d John Treherne
- Gorgeous George Marcus Cunliffe
- Hard Times Jonathan Raban
- His Angry Way V.S. Pritchett
- In Praise of Folly James Gutmann
- Inescapable Poe Harold Bloom
- Inside the Revolution Robert S. Leiken
- International Episodes Gabriele Annan
- Is Science Beautiful? David Joravsky
- Kallman in Athens Robert Craft
- Kallman in Athens David Jackson
- Life at the Top Noel Annan
- Living in the Night Neal Ascherson
- Making It New Seamus Heaney
- Meeting the Lord in the Air J.M. Cameron
- Monet’s Turf Robert L. Herbert
- Peaceful Coexistence Norman A. Stillman
- Plato’s Women R.J. Nelson, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- Politics Without Party Gordon S. Wood
- Popular Demand James Merrill
- Religious Belief and Public Morality Mario M. Cuomo
- Riding the Wave of the Future Alison Lurie
- Seeing Through the Brain Israel Rosenfield
- Super Trouper John Russell
- The Big Word in ‘Ulysses’ Richard Ellmann
- The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski Karen Kennerly, Elizabeth Hardwick, Richard Howard, Norman Mailer, and Bernard Malamud, et al.
- The Grab for Greece C.M. Woodhouse
- The Path of a Prophet Aileen Kelly
- The Waste Land Without Pound Louis S. Auchincloss
- What Nathalie Knew Frank Kermode