Foreign Policy: Outmoded Assumptions by Henry Steele Commager
Northfield, Vt.: Scratching the Surface by Floyd C. Stuart
Broken Windows – Every neighborhood desperately wants order, but we are relucatant to let police maintain it — by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling
Playing Trombone – a short story – by Nicholson Baker
Banyan Tree Before the Civic Center, Honolulu — a poem by Marvin Bell
Frederic Chopin and George Sand — a first encounter — by Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel
Robert Frost Corrupted – The effort to tidy up an inconsistent writer — by Donald Hall
Why Latin America Is Poor by Michael Novak
How It Happens – a poem by David Solway
My Stepmother, Myself by Garrison Keillor
Fashion – Time Is Money – by Holly Brubach
Books – What It Was Like – Patrick White’s Flaws in the Glass; Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Scenes of Childhood — by Maureen Howard
Books – Imitation Modernism – The aesthetic of difficulty – by Perry Meisel