- A Time for Jeremiah Murray Kempton
- Blood Sport Garry Wills
- Born Too Late John K. Fairbank
- Chaucer on Our Doorstep Robert M. Adams
- China on My Mind Jonathan D. Spence
- Coming Up for Air James Joll
- How Franco Made It Raymond Carr
- Hunting the Homunculus J.Z. Young
- Low Expectations Thomas R. Edwards
- Nobs and Snobs Conor Cruise O’Brien
- Passing the Baton in Beijing Roderick MacFarquhar
- Poland: The New Opposition Abraham Brumberg
- Release Juris Bumeisters Joanne Landy, Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Gert Bastian, Gail Daneker, and Polly Duncan, et al.
- Restoring American Independence Felix G. Rohatyn
- Star John Gross
- The Cost of Bigness James Joll
- The Fundamentalists and the Constitution Gordon S. Wood
- The Kaiser and the Kritik Gordon A. Craig
- The Lindbergh Case: An Exchange Ludovic Kennedy and Anthony Scaduto, reply by Francis Russell
- The Polemical Philosopher William H. Gass
- The Threat to the INF Treaty Arlen Specter
- The Uprising Arthur Hertzberg
- Turkey’s Nonpeople Jeri Laber
- Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky
- Underground Artist Alison Lurie
- White Magic John Golding
- Worriers Gabriele Annan