| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorials | 3 |
| An editor's notebook | 4 |
| Hoyt, Robert G. | |
| Arming Saddam Hussein | 5 |
| Barnard, Patrick | |
| Ambiguity & hierarchy | 7 |
| Carraro, Robert J. | |
| Legends live on | 8 |
| Houghton, William J. | |
| 'Of all the gin joints' | 10 |
| McCarthy, Abigail | |
| The business of being Perot | 11 |
| Carlin, David R. Jr. | |
| Eureka moments | 13 |
| Haegel, Nancy M. | |
| Poetry | 15 |
| Gross, Pamela | |
| When Catholics could sing | 16 |
| McKenna, Edward J. | |
| Stage | 18 |
| Weales, Gerald | |
| Screen | 19 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Poetry | 20 |
| Gross, Pamela | |
| Two Nations/Race | 21 |
| Wycliff, Don | |
| The Place Where Souls Are Born | 22 |
| Swick, Thomas | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 23 |
| Siegel, Lee | |
| Point Blank | 25 |
| Doyle, Kevin | |
| Religious booknotes | 27 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. |
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