- ‘Hungary’s New Twist’: An Exchange Geza Jeszenszky and Maria M. Kovacs, reply by István Deák
- ‘Roll, Jordan, Roll’ John Womack Jr., Lou Ferleger, and Robert Paquette, reply by Michael Kazin
- ‘The Morning After’: An Exchange Jerome M. Segal, Alvin Z. Rubinstein, and George Jochnowitz, reply by Anton Shammas
- Aeromance William R. Emerson, reply by Garry Wills
- An Exchange on Perestroika Silviu Brucan, reply by Peter B. Reddaway
- Appointment in Prague Jeri Laber
- Beyond Ecology Edward Abbey, reply by Bill McKibben
- Bombing in Bayreuth Jonathan Lieberson
- Did Nixon Beat Kennedy? Gordon Tullock, reply by Francis Russell
- Freud’s Cordelia Michael Ignatieff
- From Stupidity to Cupidity John Kenneth Galbraith
- Getting Dressed in the Dark Vickie Karp
- Glasnost Theater David Joravsky
- Heart of Darkness Murray Kempton
- I.F. Stone’s Socrates Sidney Hook
- I.F. Stone’s Socrates H.S. Thayer, reply by M.F. Burnyeat
- In Korean Jails Susan Sontag, Arthur Miller, Faith Sale, and Karen Kennerly
- Judging Pound John Tytell, reply by Denis Donoghue
- Just Say Yes Keith Thomas
- Keeping Up with the Shaws Conor Cruise O’Brien
- Magic Industry Derek Walcott
- Members Only Hugh Lloyd-Jones
- Mr. Know-all John Bayley
- Nabokov and Jolán Földes Peter D. Lax, reply by Dmitri Nabokov
- Not So Grimm Janet Adam Smith
- Playing for Keeps Ian Buruma
- Poussin in Texas Richard Wollheim
- Pyrrho’s Sister David Bain, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum
- Roots of Revolution John K. Fairbank
- Roughing It Robert Towers
- Survivor of a Lost World Carl E. Schorske
- The Beast in the Jungle Robert M. Adams
- The Flying Dutchman Shaul Bakhash
- The Frog Prince Alison Lurie
- The Kennedys in the King Years Garry Wills
- The Kitsch of Israel Avishai Margalit
- The Other Russian Army Gordon A. Craig
- The Rights of the Old Nicholas Palmer, reply by Sidney Hook
- The Suburban Prejudice Ivan Strand, reply by Denis Donoghue