- Studies and appreciations
- Essays and introductions
- The epic of Russian literature,, from its origins through Tolstoy
- Satire or evasion?, Black perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, edited by James S. Leonard, Thomas A. Tenney, Thadious M. Davis
- The perilous quest;, image, myth, and prophecy in the narratives of Victor Hugo, [by] Richard B. Grant
- Newe Hupia, Shoshoni poetry songs, Beverly Crum, Earl Crum, Jon P. Dayley
- William Saroyan, by Howard R. Floan
- Flannery O'Connor, by Dorothy Walters
- A historical guide to Walt Whitman, edited by David S. Reynolds
- The comics, by Coulton Waugh ; with an introduction by M. Thomas Inge
- The jewel-hinged jaw, notes on the language of science fiction, Samuel R. Delany
- William Faulkner
- Pope and his contemporaries,, essays presented to George Sherburn., Edited by James L. Clifford and Louis A. Landa
- A study of Gawain and the Green Knight
- Lords of chaos, the bloody rise of the satanic metal underground, Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind
- How to read a poem, and fall in love with poetry, Edward Hirsch
- The Garland encyclopedia of world music, advisory editors, Bruno Nettl and Ruth M. Stone ; founding editors, James Porter and Timothy Rice
- The cycle of American literature;, an essay in historical criticism
- H.G. Wells, author in agony., With a pref. by Harry T. Moore
- Stephen King, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
- Wallace Stevens
- Folk music, a very short introduction, Mark Slobin
- The rise of music in the ancient world, East and West, Curt Sachs
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Breaking the magic spell, radical theories of folk and fairy tales, Jack Zipes
- Embroidering the Scarlet A, unwed mothers and illegitimate children in American fiction and film, Janet Mason Ellerby
- What became of Jane Austen?, and other questions, by Kingsley Amis
- Readings on John Steinbeck, Clarice Swisher, book editor
- Historia de la literatura española
- Retromania, pop culture's addiction to its own past, Simon Reynolds
- The anatomy of satire
- Building Poe biography, John Carl Miller
- Edward Hopper, Carol Troyen [and others]
- The history of jazz
- The rediscovery of the frontier
- Derek Walcott, Robert D. Hamner
- Over the line, the art and life of Jacob Lawrence, edited with an introduction by Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois ; essays by Patricia Hills [and others]
- The encyclopedia of animated cartoons, Jeff Lenburg ; foreword by Gary Owens
- Jean Giono,, by Maxwell A. Smith
- A singer in the dawn, reinterpretations of Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Jay Martin
- The jazz tradition, Martin Williams
- Superwomen, gender, power, and representation, Carolyn Cocca
- Myths and fairy tales in contemporary women's fiction, from Atwood to Morrison, Sharon Rose Wilson
- War and the novelist, appraising the American war novel, Peter G. Jones ; with a foreword by M. L. Rosenthal
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, edited by Nick Selby
- From Gorky to Pasternak, six writers in Soviet Russia
- Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
- The Kenyon critics;, studies in modern literature from the Kenyon review,, edited by John Crowe Ransom
- Henry Austin, in every variety of architectural style, James F. O'Gorman ; special photography by Cervin Robinson ; research assistance by Stephen Parnes
- Word by word, emancipation and the act of writing, Christopher Hager