- Action Anglaise Ian Buruma
- Ah, Wilderness Anthony Grafton
- America’s Sweetheart Thomas Byrne Edsall
- An Upheaval for Czech Readers Ivan Klima, translated by Paul Wilson
- Ancestral Voices W.S. Merwin
- Bach’s Greatest Hit Joseph Kerman
- Barely Sighted Lives Brad Leithauser
- Catch-23 Thomas R. Edwards
- Conant & the FBI Sigmund Diamond, reply by Louis Menand
- Crackdown in Indonesia Bruce Grant
- Death of a Soul Helen Vendler
- Dialogue with Castro: A Hidden History Peter Kornbluh and James G. Blight
- Feminists and Philosophy Martha C. Nussbaum
- Going Baroque J.H. Elliott
- Greens in America Daniel J. Kevles
- Madonna in Distress Jack Flam
- Mission Impossible Theodore H. Draper
- Must We Compete? Benjamin M. Friedman
- Pioneers of Paranoia Edmund S. Morgan
- Schubert à la Mode Rita Steblin, reply by Charles Rosen
- So Near and Yet So Far Stephen Jay Gould
- The Bottom of the Well Jonathan Mirsky
- The Carter Mission Murray Kempton
- The Culture Wars Louis Menand
- The Election Mandela Lost William Finnegan
- The Long Latin Line Jasper Griffin
- The Lost World of Albert Camus Tony Judt
- The Tragedy of Rwanda Robert Block
- The Wandering Jewish Prophet in New York Gordon S. Wood
- Too Polish for the Poles John Bayley
- Wallace Redeemed? C. Vann Woodward