| Reports from Correspondents of the New York Times | 3 |
| Behind the Cuban Prisoner Ransom | 11 |
| LEWIS, ANTHONY | |
| Prospects for 1963 | 14 |
| HERALD, MAURO CALAMANDREI / GEORGE W. | |
| Of Newton Minow & Matthew Arnold | 18 |
| KRISTOL, IRVING | |
| Two Germanies? | 21 |
| CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY | |
| Anthony Burgess' Clockwork Oranges | 22 |
| HYMAN, STANLEY EDGAR | |
| Creating the Great American Novelist | 24 |
| RUBIN, LOUIS D. Jr. | |
| Behind the Bamboo Curtain | 26 |
| SCHURMANN, H. F. | |
| Boris Pasternak's Last Poems | 27 |
| STRUVE, GLEB | |
| On Screen | 29 |
| SIMON, JOHN | |
| On Stage | 31 |
| SCHNEIDER, ALAN | |
| Dear Editor | 32 |
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