| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorial | 3 |
| How not to punish China | 4 |
| Finn, James | |
| The USCC & the rebbe | 6 |
| Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers | |
| Subsidies for abortion? | 8 |
| Nadler, Jerrold & Hoyt, Robert G | |
| Breaking the rules | 9 |
| Garvey, John | |
| Growing gray with grace | 11 |
| Callahan, Sidney | |
| Sale of the century | 13 |
| Hartung, William D | |
| What the imagination knows | 18 |
| Wheeler, Edward T | |
| Poetry | 22 |
| Hlavsa, Virginia V | |
| Screen | 22 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Telling the whole story | 25 |
| Johnson, Luke Timothy | |
| The Wages of Guilt Ian Buruma | 28 |
| Beverly, Elizabeth | |
| The Faith of a Physicist, by John Polking-horn/Nature, Reality, and the Sacred, Langdon Gilkey | 31 |
| Raymo, Chet | |
| Collected Stories, Grace Paley | 33 |
| Dufresne, Bethe | |
| The Revenge of God, Gilles Kepel | 34 |
| Hunt, Michael J | |
| The Philosopher and the Provocateur, Bernard Doenng | 37 |
| Simpson, William A | |
| A Dream of Peace, collected by UNICEF | 39 |
| Ellsberg, Peggy | |
| Religious booknotes | 40 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S | |
| and just down the hall | 46 |
| Schultz, Valerie |
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