- ‘When One Is a Somebody’ Gabriele Annan
- A Class Act Garry Wills
- A Way In the World V.S. Naipaul
- Dog’s Bone Breyten Breytenbach
- Eliot Without Tears Louis Menand
- For Their Own Good Alan Brinkley
- Freud’s Permanent Revolution Thomas Nagel
- Hinterhof James Fenton
- Housing the Homeless Christopher Jencks
- In the Promised Land Patricia Storace
- Japan Against Itself Ian Buruma
- Jonathan Lieberson Prize Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Charles Larmore
- Looking for Order Gordon A. Craig
- Lord of Unreason Richard Holmes
- Making a Man of Joyce Kees Tamboer, reply by Denis Donoghue
- Off the Map John Bayley
- Richard Nixon’s Revolution Murray Kempton
- Romancing Flaubert Julian Barnes
- Sacred Woods Anne Barton
- The Bitter Education of Vargas Llosa Alma Guillermoprieto
- The Delirium of the Brave Denis Donoghue
- The Fate of the Elephants Raymond Bonner, reply by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- The Golden Age of Junk Roger E. Alcaly
- The New Old Nationalism Tony Judt
- The Triumph of the Country David Brion Davis
- The White Plague M.F. Perutz
- Walking in Trieste Estelle Gilson, reply by Tim Parks
- Who Can Police the World? Brian Urquhart
- Would Clinton’s Plan Be Fair?: An Exchange Bruce L. Smith and Jack G. Kleinman, reply by Ronald Dworkin