- 1950, "Damned busy painting" / T.J. Clark
- 1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford ; "The Catcher in the Rye" / Gish Jen ; James Jones, "From Here to Eternity" / Lindsay Waters ; A soft voice / M. Lynn Weiss
- 1952, Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood / Michael Ventura ; C.L.R. James / Donald E. Pease
- 1953, The song in country music / Dave Hickey
- 1954, Wallace Stevens, "Collected poems" / Helen Vendler
- 1955, "The self-respect of my people" / Monica L. Miller ; A.J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight / Carlo Rotella ; A generation in miniature / Richard Candida Smith ; Nabokov's "Lolita" / Stephen Schiff
- 1956, "Roll over Beethoven" / James Miller
- 1957, Dr. Seuss / Philip Nel
- 1959, "Nobody's perfect" / William J. Mann
- 1960, "Psycho" / William Beard ; More than a game / Michael MacCambridge
- 1961, JFK's inaugural address and "Catch-22" / Charles Taylor ; The author as advertisement / David Thomson
- 1962, Bob Dylan writes "Song to Woody" / Joshua Clover ; "White elephant art vs. termite art" / Howard Hampton
- 1963, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / George Hutchinson
- 1964, Robert Lowell's "For the Union dead" / Peter Sacks ; "The last stand on earth" / Gary Kamiya
- 1965, The Council on Interracial Books for Children / Dianne Johnson ; "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" / David Bradley
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- 1968, Norman Mailer / Mary Gaitskill ; The illusory babels of language / Hal Foster ; The plight of conservative literature / Michael Kimmage
- 1969, Eilzabeth Bishop, "Complete poems" / Laura Quinney ; The first Asian Americans / Hua Hsu ; The eye of Vietnam / Thi Phuong-Lan Bui
- 1970, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker / Cheryl A. Wall ; Linda Lovelace / Ann Marlowe
- 1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio ; Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck" / Maureen N. McLane
- 1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally
- 1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin
- 1982, Edmund White, "A Boy's Own Story" / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum ; "Wild Style" / Hua Hsu ; Maya Lin's wall / Anne M. Wagner ; Harriet Wilson / Saidiya V. Hartman
- 1985, Henry Roth / Mario Materassi
- 1987, Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" / Seo-Young Chu
- 1995, Philip Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher
- 2001, Twenty-first-century free verse / Stephen Burt
- 2003, Richard Powers, "The Time of Our Singing" / Greil Marcus
- 2005, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
- 2008, Barack Obama / Kara Walker.
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