- ‘A Fair and Tranquil Land’ R.J.W. Evans
- ‘Trapping Fairies in West Virginia’ John Bayley
- ‘Wallace Redeemed?’: An Exchange Stephan Lesher, reply by C. Vann Woodward
- America’s Mission Tony Smith
- Character Witnesses Ingrid D. Rowland
- Down with Memory Lane Ross E. Cheit, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- Earth First! Susan Zakin, reply by Daniel J. Kevles
- Elegy for a Park Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Robert Mezey
- Enigma Variation Gabriele Annan
- Escape Artist Alfred Kazin
- Free of the Bad Old World Michael Wood
- Giving the Devil His Due Michael Meyer
- Happy Endings Murray Kempton
- Her Holiness Alfred Kazin
- In Another Country Bernard Knox
- Kohl’s Germany: The Beginning of the End? Timothy Garton Ash
- Multicultural Mandarin John Weightman
- New Heaven, New Earth Jasper Griffin
- Not a Liberal James T. Lemon, reply by Gordon S. Wood
- Only One Song Charles Rosen
- Poets of the Spanish Tragedy Bernard Knox
- Prince of the City Martin Filler
- Sex for Thought Robert Darnton
- Subversive Activities Joseph Frank
- The Disease of All Diseases James Fenton
- The Heart of Me J. M. Coetzee
- The Other Pope James Fenton
- The Pesher Technique Barbara Thiering, reply by Geza Vermes
- The Prairie Queen Caroline Fraser
- The Revenge of the Repressed: Part II Frederick C. Crews
- The Slave Trade and the Jews David Brion Davis
- The Spook of Spooks Thomas Powers
- The Tainted Sources of ‘The Bell Curve’ Charles Lane
- The Tragic Pope? Garry Wills
- The Wonder of the Soviet World Jamey Gambrell
- Tidying Up? Marshall Olds
- Vietnam: The Bitter Truth Philip Gourevitch
- Writer Without Borders Ann Hulbert