| Correspondence: Hillenbrand, Prop. 22, & more | 4 |
| Editorial: Colombia conundrum | 5 |
| Not your standard Auntie | 7 |
| McGowan, Jo | |
| Is the tax revolt over? | 8 |
| Dionne, E.J. Jr. | |
| MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE | 9 |
| Cooper, Rand Richards | |
| RELIGION & THE MODERN NOVEL | 11 |
| Krupnick, Mark | |
| Listening for Language | 14 |
| Wilson, Steve | |
| The novelist & the director | 15 |
| Baumann, Paul | |
| 'Jesus' on CBS | 17 |
| Garvey, Michael O. | |
| Wild Decembers | 19 |
| O'Brien, Edna | |
| The Catholic Imagination | 20 |
| Greeley, Andrew M. | |
| City of God | 22 |
| Doctorow, E. L. | |
| The Paradox of American Democracy / Democracy Derailed | 24 |
| Judis, John & Broder, David | |
| The Book o f Miracles | 26 |
| Woodward, Kenneth L. | |
| Dance marathon | 31 |
| Wheeler, Edward T. |
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