Playmate of the Month
Miki Garcia gatefold photographed by Mario Casilli.

Interview
Carroll O'Conner by Richard Warren Lewis.

Features
"Seductin is a Four-Letter Word" by Germain Greer
"By The Bay" by Herbert Gold
"To China with Nixon" by William F. Buckley, Jr.
"And So it Goes" by Tom Fitpatrick
"The Natural" by Laurence Gonzales
"Adventures of a Litigious Law Buff" by Calvin Trillin.

Pete Turner's Turn-Ons
Models photographed by Pete Turner.

Playboy's Playmate Review
Linda Summers, Vicki Peters, Carol O'Neal, Debbie Davis, Lenna Sjooblom, Mercy Rooney, Sharon Johansen, Ellen Michaels, Susan Miller, Deanna Baker, P.J. Lansing and Marilyn Cole.

Interview
Milton Friedman by Geoffrey Norman.

Features
"The Spartans of Indochina" by Tom Buckley
"Gone in October" by John Clellon Holmes
"The Power and the Glory" by John Skow
"Oh, Little Town of Millionaires" by Douglas Bauer
"Jazz & Pop '73" by Nat Hentoff.

The Fiegfeld Girls
Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson, Anna Held, Nora Bayes, Marilyn Miller and Kay Laurell photographed by Mario Casilli.

Two to "Tango" (Last Tango in Paris, film)
Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando.

Interview
Joe Frazier by Carl Snyder.

Personality
"Let's Make a Deal: Walter Schneider" by Saul Braun.

Features
"Zap! You're Normal" by Stephen H. Yafa
"The Man Who Wrote My Novel" by James Lincoln Collier
"Home? Which Way is That?" C. Robert Jennings
"Lore and Lure" by Jon Bradshaw
"Going Back to the Nation" by Reg Potterton.

"Evil" Doings (A Name for Evil, film)
Robert Culp, Samantha Eggar and Sheila Sullivan photographed by Bob Willoughby.

Interview
Tennessee Williams by C. Robert Jennings.

Features
"The Lei Machine" by Craig Vetter
"Killer" by Dave Fisher and 'Joey'
"The Games of Munich" by John Skow
"The Big Top Wants You!" by Fred Powledge.

Women - With a Twist
Models photographed by Andre de Dienes.

Interview
Huey Newton by Lee Lockwood.

Personality
"Twilight for a Baron: Major William Purviance Tams, Jr." by Laurence Leamer.

Features
"What a Waste" by Gerald Astor
"Service Without a Smile" by Roy Andries de Groot
"Dieticians are Just Folks" by Calvin Trillin
"Palm Springs Eternal" by F.P. Tullius
"If you Liked "1984," you'll Love 1973" by Nat Hentoff.

Sex and the Automobile
Models photographed by R. Scott Hooper.

Playmate of the Month
Ruthy Ross.

Interview
Walter Cronkite by Ron Powers.

Personality
"Where the West Has Gone" (Casey Tibbs) by Bil Gilbert.

Features
"We are All "BUI DOI"" by Gloria Emerson
"The Writer as Political Crazy" by Alfred Kazin
"Winners and Losers" by Jon Bradshaw.

Interview
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. by David Standish.

Personality
"The Day Bobby (Fisher) Blew It" by Brad Darrach.

Features
"Jesus Christ Superham" by Nik Cohn
"How to Beat the Stock Market by Watching Girls, Counting Aspirine, Checking Sunspots" by Max Gunther
"Win Some, Lose Some" by Donn Pearch.

Sainted Bond
Jane Seymour, Gloria Hendry and Rosie Carver.

Interview
David Halberstam.

Personality
"Chairman Skinflint: Re. Wayne Hays" by Marshall Frady.

Features
"Playboy's History of Organized Crime -- The American Dream" by Richard Hammer
"Showdown on Boardwalk" by Richard Warren Lewis
"Journey into Silence" by Jack Denton Scott
"Playboy's Pro Football Preview" by Anson Mount.

Porn Chic
Harry Reems, Judith Crist, Jim Buckley, Linda Lovelace, Elizabeth Donavan, Tina Russell, John C. Holmes, Jason and Tina Russell, Calvin Culver (a.k.a. Casey Donovan), Rick Cassidy, Michelle Magazine, Marc Stevens, Rene Bond and Marilyn Chambers.

Interview
"Playboy Panel: New Sexual Life Styles" (Madeline Davis, Bety Dodson, Al Goldstein, Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, Linda Lovelace, John Money, Troy Perry, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Robert H. Rimmer, William Simon and Ernest Van Den Haag).

Features
"It's Enough to Make You Sick" by Roger Rapoport
"Playboy's History of Organized Crime -- Chicago and the Prohibition Years" by Richard Hammer
"The Sarong Comes From Saks" by Calvin Trillin
"Playboy's Pigskin Preview" by Anson Mount.

Interview
Pete Rozelle by Lawrence Linderman.

Features
"Sexual Behavior in the 1970's" by Morton Hunt
"The Promoters" by Stephen Yafa
"I Lost it in the Secont Turn" by "Stroker Ace"
"Playboy's History of Organized Crime -- Slicing Up the Big Apple" by Richard Hammer
"Burt Reynolds Puts His Pants On" by Bruce Jay Friedman.

Bunnies of 1973
Gwen Wong, Jillian Bergamo, Toby Ostreicher, Zee Tomkins, Park Lane, Bridge Ryan, Karin Sims, Coke White, Alyson Merkel, Jill deVier, Jan Seratt, Terri Striebel, Linda Sorensen, Sara Reynolds, Coni Hugee, Carol Vitale, Ruthy Ross, Bonita Rossi, Nancy Turner, Carolyn Larkin, Cher Miller, Terri Johnson, Simone Pertuiset, Lorraine Turrell, Sue Huggy and Kacey Cobb.

Interview
James Dickey by Geoffrey Norman.

Personality
"Mason Hoffenberg Gets in a Few Licks" by Sam Merrill.

Features
"Goodbye To Darkest Africa" by Richard Rhodes
"Playboy's History of Organized Crime -- War in the Underworld" by Richard Hammer.

Sex in Cinema 1973
Alan Bates Lea Massari, Brigitt Bardot, Francis Huster, Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Glenda Jackson, George Segal, Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Sophia Loren, Tiffany Bolling, Vincent Martorana, Lynn Lowry, George Shannon, Mary Wornov Sarah Miles, Anne Heywood, Marcello Mastroianni, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Marsha Mason, Pam Grier, Philip Thomas, Freda Payne, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Theresa Graves, Gloria Hendry, Richard Roundtree, Vonetta McGee, Robert Hooks, Paula Kelly, Roger Moore, Marki Bey, William Elliot, Jim Brown, Judy Brown, Michele Placido, Carol White, Veronica Anderson, Cheri "Ginger" Caffaro, Fred Vincent, Linda Lovelace, Georgina Spelvin, Marilyn Chambers, Eric Rohmer, Bernard Verley, Dominique Sanda, Macha Meril, Hiram Keller, Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider (almost all nude).

Interview
Bob Hope by William Murray.

Features
"The World's Most Dangerous Book" by Alan Watts
"Playboy's History of Organized Crime -- Happy Days and Hard Times" by Richard Hammer
"A Real Mickey Mouse Operation" by D. Keith Mano
"It's Just Like You're Two Rubber Titties" by Dan Greenburg
"A Town So Tough" by John Gregory Dunne.

Pinups
Models photographed by Bill Arsenault.

Sex Stars of 1973
Linda Lovelace, Marlon Brando, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, James Caan, Al Pacino, Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen, David Carradine, Barbara Hershey Seagull, Kris Kristofferson, Diana Ross, Roger Moore, Gloria Hendry, Jane Seymour, Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Warren Oates, Pam Grier, Tamara Dobson, Jane Fonda, Jaye Dunaway, Dyan Cannon, Brigitte Bardot, Glenda Jackson, Bruce Lee, Clint Eastwood, Charles Grodin, George Segal, Sally Kellerman, Karen Black, Anne Randall, Claudia Jennings, Valerie Perrine, Dayle Haddon, Angel Tompkins, Tiffany Bolling, Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Stella Stevens, Raquel Welch, Marilyn Chambers, Georgina Spelvin, Edward Albert, Marisa Berenson, Victoria Principal, Johynny Crawford, Dominique Sanda and Maria Schneider (not all previously named are nude).