| The Myth of India | 5 |
| Elegant, Robert | |
| The Cuban Crisis in Retrospect | 8 |
| NIEBUHR, REINHOLD | |
| John Steinbeck and the Nobel Prize | 10 |
| HYMAN, STANLEY EDGAR | |
| The Politics of Science Fiction | 12 |
| HOOK, SIDNEY | |
| Oscar Wilde Revisited | 16 |
| RODITI, EDOUARD | |
| The Language of Praise | 18 |
| NEMEROV, HOWARD | |
| Imaginary Lines | 20 |
| BURKE, KENNETH | |
| Looking Backward | 22 |
| LEKACHMAN, ROBERT | |
| Italy and Mass Culture | 24 |
| ROSENTHAL, RAYMOND | |
| Democracy's Power Structure | 26 |
| WRONG, DENNIS H. | |
| Images: Imaginative and otherwise | 29 |
| SIMON, JOHN | |
| Dear Editor | 31 |
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