• Paul M. Gaston's "Irony In Utopia: the Discovery of Nancy Lewis"
• Samuel Yellen's "The Two Kneelings of King Lear"
• Paul Barolsky's "The Case of the Domesticated Aesthete"
• Anthony Shaw's "Informed Nonconsent: Ethical Dilemmas In Medical Decision-Making"
• Stories by Paul M. Gaston, Samuel Yellen, Paul Barolsky, and Anthony Shaw
• Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, James Ulmer, Baron Wormser, and Franz Wright

• Joyce Van Dyke's "Inventing Emily Dickinson"
• Nathan A. Scott's "Elizabeth Bishop: Poet Without Myth"
• George C. Herring's "Some Legacies and Lessons of Vietnam"
• Sterling J. Kernek's "Historical Reflections on the Dangers Ahead"
• Stories by Joyce Van Dyke, Nathan A. Scott, George C. Herring, and Sterling J. Kernek
• Poetry by Stuart Dybek, Jack Anderson, Marvin Bell, and Robert Morgan

• Spence W. Perry's "Economic Controls In the Seventies: Potemkin Villages on the Potomac"
• John Seelye's "Attic Shape: Dusting Off Evangeline"
• William Collins Watterson's "His Master’s Voice"
• Richard R. Guzman's "'As in Myth, the Signs Were All Over': The Fiction of N. V. M. Gonzalez"
• Stories by Spence W. Perry, John Seelye, William Collins Watterson, and Richard R. Guzman
• Poetry by Martha Webb, Greg Kuzma, John Unterecker, and Susan Ludvigson

• Sylvia Sunderlin's "The Year I Was the Duchess"
• Irving Louis Horowitz's "Printed Words, Computers, and Democratic Societies"
• Edgar F. Shannon's "'The Thews of Anakim': Postulations of the Superhuman in Tennyson’s Poetry"
• William Attwood's "Twenty Years After Dallas"
• Stories by Sylvia Sunderlin, Irving Louis Horowitz, Edgar F. Shannon, and William Attwood
• Poetry by Alice Fulton, Leslie E. Taylor Jr., Kate Daniels, and Cleopatra Mathis

• Morris Freedman's "I Teach at CCNY"
• Oscar Mandel's "Dr. Watson to Dulcinea"
• David Wykes's "Orwell In the Trenches"
• Harry S. Ashmore's "Below the Bottom Line"
• Stories by Morris Freedman, Oscar Mandel, David Wykes, and Harry S. Ashmore
• Poetry by Louis Simpson, Dabney Stuart, Peter Balakian, and Hank Lazer

• Adda B. Bozeman's "Decline of the West? Spengler Reconsidered"
• Bernard P. Kiernan's "The Conservative Illusion"
• Max Putzel's "Faulkner’s Memphis Stories"
• Arthur F. Kinney's "In Search of Flannery O'Connor"
• Stories by Adda B. Bozeman, Bernard P. Kiernan, Max Putzel, and Arthur F. Kinney
• Poetry by Stephen Dunn, Richard Jones, John Skoyles, and Shirley Kaufman

• Richard L. Predmore's "Government Language Utilization: the Tower of Babel Resurrected"
• Hans A. Schmitt's "January 30, 1933: A Memoir"
• Bruce Michelson's "Lowell Versus Lowell"
• Thaddeus Holt's "Mr. Clay’s War: A Metahistory"
• Stories by Richard L. Predmore, Hans A. Schmitt, Bruce Michelson, and Thaddeus Holt
• Poetry by Louis Simpson, David Ignatow, David Lehman, and Robert Schultz

• Stephen J. Whitfield's "'One Nation Under God': The Rise of the Religious Right"
• Lillian Smith's "The Old Days In Jasper: A Reminiscence"
• Jane Barnes's "Art and Identity in Richards Jones' Work"
• Walter R. Coppedge's "Tol'able David and the American Heritage"
• Stories by Stephen J. Whitfield, Lillian Smith, Jane Barnes, and Walter R. Coppedge
• Poetry by Rainer Maria RilkeFranz Wright, Translator, David Posner, Ramona Weeks, and John Bricuth

• Norman A. Graebner's "The Decline of America: A Countering Appraisal"
• Robert J. Brugger's "Apocalypse Now: American Military Planning In An Age of Diminishing Possibilities"
• Michael Nelson's "Evaluative Journalism: A New Synthesis"
• Jeffrey Meyers's "The Death of Randall Jarrell"
• Stories by Norman A. Graebner, Robert J. Brugger, Michael Nelson, and Jeffrey Meyers
• Poetry by Roger Shattuck, Stephen Sandy, Katherine Kane, and Peter Wild

• John Seelye's "Oceans of Emotion: the Narcissus Syndrome"
• Paul Barolsky's "Walter Pater’s Renaissance"
• Charlotte H. Scott's "College Desegregation: Virginia’s Sad Experience"
• Millicent Bell's "Huckleberry Finn: Journey Without End"
• Stories by John Seelye, Paul Barolsky, Charlotte H. Scott, and Millicent Bell
• Poetry by Irving Feldman, Cynthia Huntington, Michael Cadnum, and Rich Ives