| Edmund Wilson's Instructions | 3 |
| MATHEWSON, RUTH | |
| Romance out of Tragedy | 5 |
| KAPP, ISA | |
| Words of Our Fathers | 7 |
| SIMON, JOHN | |
| Lives of the Mystery Writers | 9 |
| DAVIS, HOPE HALE | |
| A Writer Talking to Herself | 11 |
| MERKIN, DAPHNE | |
| Irony, Tragedy and Violence | 14 |
| PETTINGELL, PHOEBE | |
| Coexistence of Opposites | 16 |
| SHABAD, THEODORE | |
| Unsupported Assertions | 17 |
| PIPES, RICHARD | |
| Russia's Free Press | 18 |
| SOSIN, GENE | |
| Limited Reading in Moscow | 20 |
| GREEN, ASHBEL | |
| The Making of a Terrorist | 22 |
| SAUVAGE, LEO | |
| Back in the Press BOX | 23 |
| LINCOLN, PETER | |
| Between Irony and Desire | 25 |
| WOODCOCK, GEORGE | |
| Life of a Vanishing Breed | 26 |
| MELLOW, JAMES R. | |
| Little Women | 28 |
| ASAHINA, ROBERT | |
| Searching for Jasper Johns | 30 |
| RAYNOR, VIVIEN |
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