| The Presley Phenomenon | 3 |
| GEWEN, BARRY | |
| The Journalism That Failed | 5 |
| WECHSLER, JAMES A. | |
| Before and After the Shah | 7 |
| ANDERSON, RAYMOND H. | |
| Down and Out in America | 9 |
| MARGOLIS, RICHARD J. | |
| Gotham Back Then | 11 |
| STARR, ROGER | |
| Playing to the Electorate | 12 |
| KELMAN, STEVEN | |
| Fathers and Children | 16 |
| PETTINGELL, PHOEBE | |
| A Maker and Finder | 18 |
| DAVIS, ROBERT GORHAM | |
| A Vessel of Sanity | 20 |
| GOODMAN, WALTER | |
| On Writers and Politics | 22 |
| DAVIS, HOPE HALE | |
| Reading with Nabokov | 25 |
| FRYDMAN, ANNE |
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