| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorial | 3 |
| Notebook | 4 |
| Baumann, Paul | |
| Can we ban land mines? | 5 |
| Drinan, Robert F. | |
| A conference on racism | 6 |
| Bowman, Jim | |
| Medical progress | 7 |
| Hogeboom, William L. | |
| Hope from the Middle East | 8 |
| Hehir, J. Bryan | |
| That's Ms. to you, Bub | 10 |
| McCarthy, Abigail | |
| Date rape fallacies | 11 |
| Carlin, David R. Jr. | |
| Giving up the gift | 13 |
| Gray, Madelein | |
| Screen | 16 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Poetry | 16 |
| Nixon, John Jr. | |
| Media | 18 |
| McConnell, Frank | |
| A History of African-American Artists from 1792 to the Present, by Romare Bearden & Harry Henderson | 20 |
| Moses, Wilson J. | |
| The Rage of a Privileged Class Ellis Cose | 21 |
| Wycliff, Don | |
| Fire with Fire Naomi Wolf | 22 |
| Collins, Clare | |
| The Gnat Is Older than Man, by Christopher D. Stone/Ultimate Security, by Norman Myers | 23 |
| Worth, Robert | |
| The Rest of Life Mary Gordon | 24 |
| Breslin, John B. | |
| Religious booknotes | 26 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. | |
| More hungry boys | 31 |
| Logan, Bob |
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