- ‘Endangered American Dream’ Edward N. Luttwak, reply by Robert M. Solow
- ‘Guilty If Charged’: An Exchange Mary M. Clark and Barbara A. White, reply by Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein
- ‘I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness’ Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘Joseph Lash and the CP Theodore H. Draper
- ‘Misjudgment at Nuremberg’ George Thuroczy, reply by István Deák
- ‘More Humility, Fewer Illusions’—A Talk between Adam Michnik and Jürgen Habermas Adam Michnik and Juergen Habermas, translated from the German by Rodney Livingstone
- A Death in London James Fenton
- A Raisin in the Sun Murray Kempton
- Acts of an Apostle Robert L. Heilbroner
- Damsels in Distress Anita Desai
- Degas Out of Doors John Updike
- Eye on the Prize Jeremy Bernstein
- Fatal Attraction John Banville
- France: Keeping the Demons at Bay Stanley Hoffmann
- Grand Delusion Rosemary Dinnage
- Italy: Purgatorio W.V. Harris
- Look Homeward, Ira Robert Towers
- Lost Paradises Michael Wood
- Not at a Mass Iseult Honohan
- Of Ivory and the Survival of Elephants Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Pornography: An Exchange Catherine A. MacKinnon, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- Prospero Without His Magic Jack Gilbert
- The Computer Wars James Fallows
- The Discreet Charms of Mrs. G. Robert Bernard Martin
- The Great Perhaps Robert M. Adams
- The Oed Revised John Simpson and Edmund Weiner
- The Old New Age Frank Kermode
- The Real RLS Janet Adam Smith
- The Soul’s Entrepreneurs Anthony Grafton
- The True Believer Gordon A. Craig
- The Welfare Blues Michael Massing
- Unjust Desserts? Andrew Hacker
- Walsh’s Last Stand Theodore H. Draper
- Worth a Detour Tim Parks