- A Parable of Automation James Fallows
- An Exchange on Cambodia Nayan Chanda and Ben Kiernan, reply by William Shawcross
- Flunking the Schools George Burnet
- Flunking the Schools Louis Goldman
- Flunking the Schools Rudolf Flesch
- Flunking the Schools Ronald Gross
- Flunking the Schools Annette Y. Kirk, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Flunking the Schools John Van Doren
- Holding Up the Empire Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Hole in the World Jerome S. Bruner
- Home from Home D.J. Enright
- Jordan: Looking for an Opening Bernard Avishai
- Lives of the Poets Robert Craft
- Losing the Economic Race Lester C. Thurow
- Mitterrand vs. France? Stanley Hoffmann
- On Being ‘Inadmissible’ George Woodcock
- Orwell’s America T.R. Fyvel
- Our Mission in China Jonathan D. Spence
- Return to the Native Peter Nabokov
- Rilke in Life and Death Gabriele Annan
- The Darkest Deception Martin Gilbert
- Visions of the Grand Prize Bernard Knox