- ‘Listening to Prozac’ Peter D. Kramer, reply by Sherwin B. Nuland
- ‘Something Horrible’ in El Salvador Joan Didion
- Action Painting in Venice Garry Wills
- After Cavafy James Merrill
- Agile Among the Tombs Michael Wood
- An Inability to Mourn Gordon A. Craig
- His Mystic Way P. N. Furbank
- Infinitive Joseph Brodsky
- Mysteries of the Mall Witold Rybczynski
- Nazis and Resisters Noel Annan, reply by István Deák
- Nixon Redivivus Theodore H. Draper
- On Omaha Beach William Preston Jr.
- On the Waterfront Jonathan Raban
- Reds Robert Conquest
- Testing, Testing … Veronica Geng
- The Quiet American Louis Menand
- Women Versus the Biologists: An Exchange Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- World Capital: The Need & the Risks Felix G. Rohatyn