Incident —Countee Cullen 5
Excerpt from The History of Art —H. W. Janson 11
Don't let that horse/eat that violin —Lawrence Ferlinghetti 11
The Upturned Face —Stephen Crane 14
How to Defuse the Population Bomb—Robert S. McNamara zz
Population: The Uninvited Guest—Eugene Linden 30
Excerpt from My Lord, What a Morning —Marian Anderson 34
Parent and Child: What's behind spiked hair and pierced ears—Lawrence Kutner 37
Language and the Lunatic Fringe —Doris Lessing 40
Excerpt from Mr. Godolphin—Martha Sullivan
Research in Brief: Flight of the Bumblebee —Mary Jones 48
How a New England Legend Came to Be —Alan Ferguson 50
Maintaining the Organic Lawn 51
Village of Snake Charmers Sees Hard Times —Barbara Crossette 52
Assault Weapons Aren't 'the Problem —Gary Kleck 54
Our Two-Sided Brain —John Chaffee 65
Stars —Sara Teasdale 80
Excerpt from Tarzan of the Apes—Edgar Rice Burroughs 91
The Waning Moon—Percy Bysshe Shelley 103
Hagar the Horrible—Dik Browne 103
The First Tastes of Vintage '93—Bryan Miller 104
'80s-Babble: Untidy Treasure —Stefan Kanfer 105
Dermatitis —Samuel M. Bluefarb, M.D. 117
A Brief History of Exercise—Victoria Roberts 143
The Story of an Hour —Kate Chopin 177
I'm Your Horse in the Night—Luisa Valenzuela 183
Appointment in Samarra—W. Somerset Maugham 191
Excerpt from Elmira—Richard Brautigan 197
Excerpt from Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury 203
Chains 1942—Fanny Tillman Trueherz and Sandra Brown 209
Jack Luggage —William McGreevy 221
Girls of Summer —Marie Brenner 229
Death in the Orchard—Edward Brown 235
Excerpt from "No Name Woman" in The Woman Warrior—Maxine Hong Kingston 241
A Rough Ride—John Marchese 247
Marian Anderson Is Dead at 96; Singer Shattered Racial Barriers —Allan Kozinn 257
300 People of Letters Come To Pulitzer's Birthday Party—James Barron 265
How to Assay an Essay —Carmen Collins 283
Hand, Eye, Brain: Some "Basics" in the Writing Process—Janet Emig 289
Seeing and Imagining: Clues to the Workings Of the Mind's Eye—Sandra Blakeslee 295
Linguists Debate Study Classifying Language As Innate Human Skill —Gina Kolata 305
The Many Lives and Tricks of 9 —Pico Iyer 313
Cross Out a Landmark on the Chinatown Tour—Michael T. Kaufman 319
Dollie And Johnnie—William Safire 325
Into the Sunshine and Another Spring—John A. Gould 331
Language of Early Americans is Deciphered —John Noble Wilford 337
In Praise of the Humble Comma—Pico lyer 345
The 30•Second Spot Quiz —Hugh Rank 362
The Communication Collapse—Norman Cousins 371
Appearances Are Destructive—Mark Mathabane 377
Voters Assailed by Unfair Persuasion—Daniel Goleman 383
When Movies Ruled Our Lives—Theodore Roszak 399
Hue and Cry—Barbara Flanagan 407