• Fred Hobson's "Gerald W. Johnson: the Southerner As Realist"
• Dudley Poore's "On the Plain In Spain"
• Merrill Peterson's "Dumas Malone: the Completion of A Monument"
• Edwin M. Yoder's "The Sage At Sunset"
• Stories by Fred Hobson, Dudley Poore, Merrill Peterson, and Edwin M. Yoder
• Poetry by Mary Oliver, Georgia Gojmerac-Leiner, David Wagoner, and Conrad Hilberry

• Russell Fraser's "R. P. Blackmur: America’s Best Critic"
• George C. Herring's "The 'Vietnam Syndrome' and American Foreign Policy "
• Hans A. Schmitt's "The Weakness of European Nation-States"
• Susan Resneck Parr's "Individual Responsibility in the Great Gatsby"
• Stories by Russell Fraser, George C. Herring, Hans A. Schmitt, and Susan Resneck Parr
• Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, Martha Collins, Carol Frost, and Sandford Lyne

• Robert Coles's "Freud and God"
• John IsraelSteven H. Hochman's "Discovering Jefferson in the People’s Republic of China"
• Alfred Burger's "Drug Development: Challenges and Hurdles"
• Agnes Crawford Schuldt's "Molecules and Music"
• Stories by Robert Coles, John IsraelSteven H. Hochman, Alfred Burger, and Agnes Crawford Schuldt
• Poetry by John Ashbery, Jane Miller, David Mc Aleavey, and Bonnie Gordon

• James A. Nathan's "Zbigscam: U.S. Foreign Policy, 1976-80"
• Carl N. Degler's "Rethinking Post-Civil War History"
• Irby B. Cauthen's "Shakespearean Tragedy and the Nostalgic Vision"
• Samuel Pickering's "The Books I Left Behind"
• Stories by James A. Nathan, Carl N. Degler, Irby B. Cauthen, and Samuel Pickering
• Poetry by Albert Goldbarth, Mary Ruefle, Forough Farrokhzad, and Laurie Sheck

• A. S. Knowles's "'Shadows on the Sand'"
• Charles Maechling's "Japan and the United States: the Brittle Alliance"
• Walter Harding's "Walden’s Man of Science"
• Jane Barnes's "John Updike: A Literary Spider"
• Stories by A. S. Knowles, Charles Maechling, Walter Harding, and Jane Barnes
• Poetry by Daniel Mark Epstein, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Heather McHugh, and Barbara Eve

• Lucinda H. Mackethan's "I’ll Take My Stand: The Relevance of the Agrarian Vision"
• Carol Shloss's "The Privilege of Perception"
• John Seelye's "Georgia Boys: the Redclay Satyrs of Erskine Caldwell and Harry Crews"
• Louis J. Halle's "The Role of the University In International Relations"
• Stories by Lucinda H. Mackethan, Carol Shloss, John Seelye, and Louis J. Halle
• Poetry by Stuart Dybek, Robert Morgan, John Vernon, and Jay Parini

• Nora Beloff's "Russia and the Hundred-Headed Hydra"
• Francelia Butler's "Children’s Literature: the Bad Seed"
• Molly Ingle Michie's "A Splendid Day"
• John Halperin's "Eminent Victorians and History"
• Stories by Nora Beloff, Francelia Butler, Molly Ingle Michie, and John Halperin
• Poetry by Mark Rudman, Stanley Moss, Chris Gilbert, and Phillis Levin

• Michael Nelson's "The White House, Bureaucracy, and Foreign Policy: Lessons From Cambodia"
• Richard T. Selden's "An Economist Looks At the 80's"
• Ralph E. Luker's "Garry Wills and the New Debate Over the Declaration of Independence"
• Robert J. Brugger's "The Mind of the Old South: New Views"
• Stories by Michael Nelson, Richard T. Selden, Ralph E. Luker, and Robert J. Brugger
• Poetry by Rita Dove, Cynthia Huntington, Jack Myers, and Keith Althaus

• John Milton Cooper's "World War I: European Origins and American Intervention"
• Douglas Day's "Borges, Faulkner, and the Wild Palms"
• W. D. Ehrhart's "Why I Did It"
• Richard R. Guzman's "The Saint and the Sage: the Fiction of Raja Rao"
• Stories by John Milton Cooper, Douglas Day, W. D. Ehrhart, and Richard R. Guzman
• Poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca, Dara Wier, Richard Eberhart, and Franz Wright

• Oscar Mandel's "Against Castrated Art"
• Dore Ashton's "C?nne and His Temperament"
• G. Edward White's "The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy"
• Jesse Bier's "Now—And Then"
• Stories by Oscar Mandel, Dore Ashton, G. Edward White, and Jesse Bier
• Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Mazzocco, Julia Mishkin, and Merrill Oliver