- ‘The Post-Communist Nightmare’: An Exchange Joseph Brodsky, reply by Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
- A New Year’s Wish Murray Kempton
- Another Country Denis Donoghue
- At Home in Babel Jonathan Raban
- Dutch Treat Peter C. Sutton
- Genocide & the Khmer Rouge Michael Haas, reply by Aryeh Neier
- Hollywood and the Holocaust John Gross
- How Dangerous is the Deficit? An Exchange Edward J. Nell, reply by Benjamin M. Friedman
- Kennedy Up Close George W. Ball
- Kosovo Survives! Aryeh Neier
- Laura (Riding) Jackson Elizabeth Friedman, reply by Helen Vendler
- Lise Meitner’s Genius Mark E. Smith, reply by M.F. Perutz
- Love and Friendship Gabriele Annan
- Mysteries of the Middle Class Nicholas Lemann
- Not an Anthropologist Alan Roland, reply by Rosemary Dinnage
- Oliver Stone’s USA Robert Stone
- On Rita Klímová (1931–1993) Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
- Shoot the Piano Player Sarah Kerr
- Singing in the Rain John Bayley
- Sons and Brothers John Bayley
- Stuck in Traffic David McClintick, reply by Michael Massing
- The Crime of Punishment David J. Rothman
- The Family of Mann Janet Malcolm
- The Menendez Show Elizabeth Hardwick
- The Sun Also Sets R.J.W. Evans
- The Unknown Freud: An Exchange J. Schimek, James Hopkins, Herbert S. Peyser, David D. Olds, and Marian Tolpin, et al.
- The Uses of the Holocaust Avishai Margalit
- Where the East Begins Jonathan D. Spence
- Writing on Rothko James E.B. Breslin
- Writing on Rothko Sam Hunter, reply by Jack Flam