| They Phone by Night | 4 |
| Letters | 6 |
| The Biggest Lie | 9 |
| NO COMMENT | 13 |
| Life in the Pigsty | 14 |
| Jones, Arthur | |
| The Pope's Preoccupations | 16 |
| MacEoin, Gary | |
| DATELINES | 17 |
| The Japanese Model | 21 |
| JUNKERMAN, JOHN | |
| Can Green Grow? | 28 |
| SWEET, WILLIAM | |
| Free Speech | 34 |
| Hentoff, Nat | |
| HIGH PITCH HIGH VOLUME | 38 |
| ZEITUN, MARILYN | |
| When Mining G?ants Walk the Land | 40 |
| SPANEL, ANN | |
| ADNAUSEAM | 43 |
| Peck, Keenen | |
| Tuning Out Black History | 48 |
| Hentoff, Nat | |
| Britannia Waives the Rules | 50 |
| Seitz, Michael H. | |
| 'The Wrong Kind of Readers' | 52 |
| Bagdikian, Ben H. | |
| Woman of the World | 55 |
| Davidon, Ann Morrissett | |
| Truman Step by Step | 56 |
| Hechler, Ken | |
| Feeling the Unfeelable | 57 |
| Powers, Thomas | |
| The Have-nots | 58 |
| Auletta, Ken | |
| The Last Days | 60 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | |
| Books Briefly | 61 |
| REPORT CARD | 62 |
| Doenges, Judy | |
| Puzzle | 63 |
| Cox, Emily & Rathvon, Henry | |
| The Last Word | 66 |
| Mayer, Milton |
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