- ‘Obnoxious’ Brooks Munkelt, reply by Charles Rosen
- ‘The Check Is in the Mail’ John Gregory Dunne
- ‘The Closing of the American Mind’ David Bain, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum
- ‘The Closing of the American Mind’ Barry R. Gross
- ‘The Gorbachev Prospect’: An Exchange Josef Skvorecky, reply by George F. Kennan
- A Stone’s Throw Anton Shammas
- Aerie Visions Garry Wills
- An Infinity of Points Howard Stein, reply by Martin Gardner
- An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Israel Kenneth J. Arrow, Nathan P. Glazer, Arthur Hertzberg, Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, and Seymour Martin Lipset, et al.
- Balanchine’s Steps Robert Craft
- Betrayal Neal Ascherson
- Black Crime, White Racism Andrew Hacker
- Bumps on the Head Martin Gardner
- Chopping Up ‘The Cherry Orchard’ Jonathan Lieberson
- Cracking the Socrates Case M.F. Burnyeat
- Economics Without Power Robert L. Heilbroner
- From the Akkadian Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, reply by Joseph Brodsky
- Getting Out of a Spin Richard Rhodes, reply by Rudolf Peierls
- Going Every Sort of Hog Gabriele Annan
- Has Arias Made a Difference? Aryeh Neier
- Help the Los Angeles Central Library Patricia O’Toole
- Huston’s Joyce Denis Donoghue
- Israel Larry Gross, Frank Furstenberg, Roger Abrahams, Paul Allison, and Christine Bachen, et al.
- Israel & US Public Opinion Fouad Moughrabi
- La Forza del Destino Adrian Lyttelton
- Let Handel Be Handel Philip Gossett
- Literature as the Bible Harold Bloom
- No Such Office Mark R. Parris
- Nuclear Wizards Lord Zuckerman
- Oblomov’s Travels John Bayley
- On the Pursuit of the Ideal Isaiah Berlin
- Portraits by Lowell Anthony Hecht
- Public Diplomacy John F. Guilmartin Jr., reply by Theodore H. Draper
- Pushkin, or the Real and the Plausible Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov
- Pussycats and the Owl Stephen Jay Gould
- Rescuing the Past Willibald Sauerländer
- Shah’s Legacy William Shawcross
- Spying on the Neighbors Maurice Keen
- The Benefit of Slavery David Brion Davis
- The Case for Dryden Robert M. Adams
- The Invention of Latin America Raymond Carr
- The Lie in the Soul J.M. Cameron
- The New Shakespeare? E.A.J. Honigmann
- The Quaking Bog Thomas Flanagan
- The Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize Giovanni Agnelli Foundation
- The Sense of Santayana Jonathan Lieberson
- The Slave Revolts Herbert Aptheker, reply by C. Vann Woodward
- The Vaccine Business Richard Abel, reply by M.F. Perutz
- The Way We Live Now Robert Towers
- Tolstoy Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov
- Varieties of Antifascism Stephen Schwartz, reply by Stephen Toulmin
- What Keeps the Japanese Going? Ian Buruma