| Prelude to Slaughter | 3 |
| DRAPER, ROGER | |
| Atonement Isn't Enough | 5 |
| SLEEPER, JIM | |
| Trading In a Hard-Won Reputation | 7 |
| BRINKLEY, DOUGLAS | |
| Fundamental Questions Remain | 8 |
| GRAFF, HENRY F. | |
| A Dark and Lonely Mind | 10 |
| OSHINSKY, DAVID M. | |
| Single Success Presidents | 13 |
| O'NEILL, WILLLAM L. | |
| The Fading Enlightenment | 15 |
| CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER | |
| Russia Lost and Found | 17 |
| SHUB, ANATOLE | |
| Evolution of a Soviet Novel | 18 |
| LOURIE, RICHARD | |
| Resurrecting the Liberal Keats | 20 |
| PETTINGELL, PHOEBE | |
| The Drama of German Unification | 22 |
| HOTTELET, RICHARD C. | |
| Superb Old-Fashioned Fare | 23 |
| HEILBRUNN, JACOB | |
| Remnants of Love | 25 |
| ALLEN, BROOKE | |
| A Game Born in Bloodshed | 27 |
| GOODMAN, WALTER | |
| Behind a Shell of Illusions | 28 |
| DICKSTEIN, LORE | |
| Commissar of the Contrary | 30 |
| SHECHNER, MARK | |
| Spiced Up Henry James | 32 |
| SHARGEL, RAPHAEL | |
| Diverting Sorrows | 34 |
| KANFER, STEFAN | |
| Index for 1997 | 36 |
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