• W. D. Ehrhart's "'What Grace is Found in So Much Loss?'"
• Sanford Pinsker's "Musing About Orwell’s 'Politics and The English Language'—50 Years Later"
• Morris Freedman's "The Fall of Charlie Van Doren"
• Rawdon Dalrymple's "Continental Drift: The Case of Australia"
• Stories by W. D. Ehrhart, Sanford Pinsker, Morris Freedman, and Rawdon Dalrymple
• Poetry by Charles Wright, Jane Shore, Larry Levis, and Larissa Szporluk

• John Taylor's "Taking the Odium Out of Sodium"
• Leonard Kriegel's "New York Losers-And Winners"
• Brad Barkley's "Escaping"
• Sanford Pinsker's "Albert Murray: the Black Intellectuals' Maverick Patriarch"
• Stories by John Taylor, Leonard Kriegel, Brad Barkley, and Sanford Pinsker
• Poetry by Mary Winifred Hood, Susan Imhof, Sam Witt, and Edward Kleinschmidt

• Patricia Foster's "Outside the Hive: A Meditation on Childlessness"
• Robert Erwin's "Injuns"
• Stephen Minot's "An Open Letter to Christians, Both Born and Reborn: An Informal Essay"
• Jeffrey Meyers's "Bogart and Hemingway"
• Stories by Patricia Foster, Robert Erwin, Stephen Minot, and Jeffrey Meyers
• Poetry by Ira Sadoff, Peter Cooley, Marcia Southwick, and Don Barkin

• Jeanne Schinto's "The Lover of Libraries"
• Lionel Basney's "Mia California: An Opera Journal"
• Richard O'Mara's "Obsolescence, the Death of Newspapers, and All That"
• J. A. S. Evans's "The Present State of Canada"
• Stories by Jeanne Schinto, Lionel Basney, Richard O'Mara, and J. A. S. Evans
• Poetry by Jon Loomis, Marianne Boruch, Patricia Dobler, and Elena Karina Byrne

• David Kirby's "What Is A Writer?"
• Tucker Carrington's "The Grammar of Hard Facts: Joseph Mitchell’s Up In the Old Hotel"
• Sanford Pinsker's "He Had A Dream, and It Shot Him: What Happened to Visions of Racial Harmony, and Why"
• Francis Leary's "Robespierre: the Meaning of Virtue"
• Stories by David Kirby, Tucker Carrington, Sanford Pinsker, and Francis Leary
• Poetry by Charles Simic, Albert Goldbarth, Stephen Dobyns, and Mark Svenvold

• Hilary Masters's "Connections"
• Thomas Russell's "The Age of Sanity"
• Peter Harris's "Varieties of Religious Experience: New Work By Galway Kinnell, Jane Hirshfield, and Rodney Jones"
• Joseph Hynes's "Tom Stoppard’s Lighted March"
• Stories by Hilary Masters, Thomas Russell, Peter Harris, and Joseph Hynes
• Poetry by Dave Smith, Sydney Lea, Stanley Marcus, and Stan Sanvel Rubin

• Steven G. Kellman's "Food Fights in Iowa: The Vegetarian Stranger in Recent Midwest Fiction"
• Alexander Burnham's "Okinawa, Harry Truman, and the Atomic Bomb"
• Bruce Fleming's "Intimations of India"
• Abe Kriegel's "Out of Context: A New York Jew in the New South"
• Stories by Steven G. Kellman, Alexander Burnham, Bruce Fleming, and Abe Kriegel
• Poetry by James Wood, Frances Mayes, Susan Davis, and Alan Williamson

• Booton Herndon's "Corpses Thawing In Springtime: the Bulge Revisited"
• Morris Freedman's "How Dead Is Poetry?"
• Paul Barolsky's "Fables of Art"
• Jack R. Fischel's "The New Anti-Semitic Axis:Holocaust Denial, Black Nationalism, and the Crisis on Our College Campuse"
• Stories by Booton Herndon, Morris Freedman, Paul Barolsky, and Jack R. Fischel
• Poetry by Robert Hill Long, D. S. Burnham, Lisa Gade, and Elizabeth W. Holden

• Charles Maechling Jr.'s "The Next Century—Can the Free Market Panacea Survice?"
• Leonard Kriegel's "Boundaries of Freedom: Liberals, Patriotism, and Melting Pots"
• Hardy C. Wilcoxon's "Vignettes of Vietnam"
• Richard Tillinghast's "Robert Lowell on Native Ground"
• Stories by Charles Maechling Jr., Leonard Kriegel, Hardy C. Wilcoxon, and Richard Tillinghast
• Poetry by Mary Oliver, Linda Pastan, Renate Wood, and Dorothy Mosel Sutton

• Booton Herndon's "Paris Was Yesterday"
• John Egerton's "The Pre-Brown South"
• Russell Fraser's "Proserpine’s Island"
• Stories by Booton Herndon, John Egerton, and Russell Fraser
• Poetry by Michael Jay McClure, Natasha Saje, Jane Hilberry, and Adele Slaughter