January
- ‘Women Well Set Free’ Anita Desai
- A Mystery of the Tropics M.F. Perutz
- An American Abroad Luc Sante
- Argentina: Living With Cruelty V.S. Naipaul
- Bush and the Blacks: An Unknown Story Jefferson Morley
- Closing the Gap Charles Nissim-Sabat, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Friendly Corrections Charles Rosen
- Idolizing John Boardman
- Just Folks Brad Leithauser
- Life and Death in Slavery David Brion Davis
- Only Collect Francis Haskell
- Phantom Limbs Erna Otten, reply by Oliver Sacks
- Royal Family Thais Richard West
- Something for the Boys Diane Johnson
- The Charms of Terror Murray Kempton
- The Gulf War Reconsidered Theodore H. Draper
- The Heisenberg Case: An Exchange Martin Heisenberg, reply by Jeremy Bernstein
- The Massacre of Yugoslavia Misha Glenny
- The Presbyterian Nietzsche Garry Wills
- The Road to Minsk Abraham Brumberg
- The Roots of Dissolution Geoffrey Hosking
- The Silent Depression A.L.C. de Mestral, reply by Robert L. Heilbroner
- The Silent Depression Raymond M. Frost
- The Silent Depression John H. Sweeney
- The Tory Anarchist Stuart Hampshire
- The True History of the Gulf War Theodore H. Draper
- The Wizard of Lake Cayuga Robert M. Adams
- The World We Live In
- Twilight in Flanders John Weightman
- Two Poems by Zbigniew Herbert Zbigniew Herbert, translated by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter
- Why Cuomo Said No Garry Wills
February
- ‘Battle of the Books’ Joseph M. Levine
- ‘Battle of the Books’ Eduardo R. Tenenbaum, reply by Derek Jarrett
- Collapsing Modernism Witold Rybczynski
- Demonic Democracy Gordon A. Craig
- Inside the Box Alan Lightman
- JFK’s Big Moment George W. Ball
- Lawrence in Love David Lodge
- Psychologies of Women Elaine Hoffman Baruch and Lucienne J. Serrano, reply by Phyllis Grosskurth
- The Alchemist Jack Flam
- The Cruelest Sport Joyce Carol Oates
- The End of Peronism? V.S. Naipaul
- The Golden ‘Blade’ Garry Wills
- The Haunting of Thomas De Quincey Robert Bernard Martin
- The Pretender Speaks Darryl Pinckney
- Willie Horton’s Message Thomas Byrne Edsall
March
- ‘The True History of the Gulf War’: An Exchange Douglas V. Johnson II and Stephen C. Pelletiere, reply by Theodore H. Draper
- A Lost Chance for Peace Arthur Hertzberg
- An Exchange on Jerusalem Teddy Kollek, reply by Avishai Margalit
- Bad Debts Murray Kempton
- Becoming Homer Hugh Lloyd-Jones
- Corrections The Editors
- Desert Ruritania David Gilmour
- Easy Living Michael Wood
- Fall of Valor Robert M. Adams
- Four Days with Fidel: A Havana Diary Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- From the Eternal War Gabriele Annan
- H.R. Clinton’s Case Garry Wills
- Haiti: The Shadows of Terror Kenneth Roth
- Hello to All That Noel Annan
- Jonathan Lieberson Prize Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Charles Larmore
- Killing Time Geoffrey O’Brien
- Literature of the Wounded Jonathan Mirsky
- Mary McCarthy in New York Elizabeth Hardwick
- Michelangelo, True or False? Charles Hope
- Muslims, Christians, and Jews: The Dream of Coexistence Bernard Lewis
- Mysteries of a Modern Painter Henri Zerner
- Professor Hegel Goes to Washington Alan Ryan
- Rationing Life David J. Rothman
- Some Like It Hot Daniel J. Kevles
- Survivors István Deák
- The Last Hippie Oliver Sacks
- The New Newspeak
- The Sweet Singer of Tuckahoe Darryl Pinckney
- The World Turned Upside Down Emily Vermeule
- There’s No Place Like Home Sue Halpern
April
- ‘Radical, Conventional Mozart’: An Exchange Leo Treitler, reply by Charles Rosen
- ‘The Gulf War Reconsidered’ Elliott A. Cohen and David H. Finnie, reply by Theodore H. Draper
- A Double Standard Brian Urquhart
- Above the Abyss Gordon A. Craig
- Another Case of Multiculturalism Murray Kempton
- Art, Morals, and Politics Robert Hughes
- Bandit and Friends Peter Singer
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Murray Kempton
- De Gaulle and His Myth Robert O. Paxton
- Delusions of World Order Stanley Hoffmann
- Do Women Care More? Suzanne Gordon, reply by Diane Johnson
- Fighting for the Crown John Bayley
- His Brilliant Career Julia Reed
- Homer Alive Garry Wills
- In a Former Country Amos Elon
- Innocents at Home John Bayley
- It Can’t Happen Here Ian Buruma
- Kasha on the Brain Jamey Gambrell
- Lagoon Tunes Robert Craft
- Marie Syrkin Fellowship Leon Wieseltier
- Mister Myth Denis Donoghue
- Outsiders Ian Buruma
- Paradise Lost Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
- Reading Nabokov Brian Boyd, reply by Robert M. Adams
- Return to Vietnam: An Exchange David Slawson, Stephen Denney, and Eric M. Bergerud, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
- Secret Histories Robert Towers
- Shakespeare & Co. Charlton Ogburn, reply by E.A.J. Honigmann
- Talking Genes M. Gopnik, reply by Lord Zuckerman
- The Buchanan Canon Eugene J. Fisher, reply by Garry Wills
- The Buchanan Canon Jeffrey Hart
- The Fiction of ‘The People’ Edmund S. Morgan
- The Fiction of Fact Norman Fruman, reply by David Lodge
- The New Civil War Andrew Hacker
- The Tragical History of New York Jason Epstein
- The Uncertain Scientist Rudolf Peierls
- The Wonders of Angkor Wat: A Diary Hugh Honour
- What Can Save the Economy? James Fallows
- White Noise James Rusbridger, reply by Ian Buruma
- Witch Hunt in Prague Jeri Laber
- Wounds Thomas P. Slaughter, reply by David Brion Davis
- Your Time is My Time John Gregory Dunne
May
- ‘Becoming Homer’: An Exchange Martin Bernal, Andrew M. Riggsby, and Ronelle Alexander, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
- ‘The Culture of Everything’ Václav Havel
- An Exchange on ‘Black Athena’ Martin Bernal and Earl L. Dachslager, reply by Emily Vermeule
- Beat the Devil Edmund S. Morgan
- Camden, 1892 Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Robert Mezey
- Castro’s Cuba: An Exchange Maurice Halperin, Carlos Ripoll, and Mark N. Kramer, reply by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Declaration of Iranian Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Salman Rushdie Homa Sarshar, Mahshid Amir-Shahi, Ali-Asghar Haj Seyed Javadi, Esmail Khoi, and Nader Nader-Poor, et al.
- Defending the Faith David Remnick
- East Germany: Crime and Punishment
- France Self-Destructs Stanley Hoffmann
- Frontier Fantasies Robert M. Adams
- Goodbye to All That Peter Jenkins
- His Secret Life Robert L. Heilbroner
- Human Rights in Prague Christine Stone and Mark Almond, reply by Jeri Laber
- In Trollopeshire Robert Bernard Martin
- Not a Lightweight Ronald K. Fried, reply by Joyce Carol Oates
- Numbers Game Gabriele Annan
- Oh, What a Lovely War Noel Annan
- Philosophy and Life: An Interview Ramin Jahanbegloo
- Playing House John Banville
- Still Life Gabriele Annan
- Storm over India Edward W. Desmond
- Survival in Romania George Ross, reply by István Deák
- Taking a Chance on Evolution John Maynard Smith
- The Budapest Review of Books Natalie Zemon Davis
- The Call of the Not So Wild Bill McKibben
- The Cantorbury Tales Robert Bartlett
- The Dream of the Human Genome Richard C. Lewontin
- The Lamentable Library Patrice Higonnet
- The Not So Great Dictator Nicholas Lemann
- The Terrorist’s Terrorist Scott MacLeod
- The Violent Life of Yitzhak Shamir Avishai Margalit
- Triumphs of Mantegna Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Yrs. Aff. Beatrix Potter Janet Adam Smith
June
- ‘How New York Fell’: An Exchange Robert Geddes and Craig Whitaker, reply by Jason Epstein
- ‘The Second-Best Bed’ Charlton Ogburn, reply by E.A.J. Honigmann
- A Double Life P. N. Furbank
- A Dream for Czechoslovakia Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
- A New Kind of Riot Tim Rutten
- Africa’s Lost History Neal Ascherson
- An Open Letter to the Vice-President James J. Leff
- Blood Ties Hilary Mantel
- Broken Glass Michael Meyer
- Child’s Play Kerry Fried
- For a Version of the I Ching Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Robert Mezey
- French Collaborators: The New Debate Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein
- Fujimori’s Plot: An Interview with Gustavo Gorriti Sarah Kerr
- Homage to Catalonia David Gilmour
- Homer’s Literacy Joseph Russo, reply by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
- House of Cards Robert Towers
- In the Light of Venice Joseph Brodsky
- Irishness John Bayley
- Khomeini’s Forerunners Harry G. Parke, reply by Bernard Lewis
- My Secret Past: The KGB File Elena Bonner, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
- The Coming Battles over Free Speech Ronald Dworkin
- The Democratic Vista Murray Kempton
- The General’s Main Chance Avishai Margalit
- The Great White Hope Eric L. McKitrick
- The High Cost of New History Frank Kermode
- The Master Builder Gordon A. Craig
- The Mystery of Malaria: An Exchange Amico Bignami, reply by M.F. Perutz
- The Real John Dewey Louis Menand
- The Rescuer Garry Wills
- The Revolution Over the Revolution Lawrence Stone
- The Second American Revolution Edmund S. Morgan
- The Sticking Gas Keith Montgomery, reply by Daniel J. Kevles
- What Ever Happened to the ‘War on Drugs’? Michael Massing
- What the Government Should Do Felix G. Rohatyn
- Who Killed Soviet Communism? Theodore H. Draper
- Witch Hunt in Prague Carlos A. Camargo, reply by Jeri Laber
- Witch Hunt in Prague Pavel Bratinka, Daniel Kroupa, and Vladimir Dlouhy
July
- Austere Fireworks Michael Wood
- Cory Lives! James Fenton
- Democracy in Romania? Radu J. Bogdan, reply by István Deák
- Dons of the Don David Remnick
- Fatal Triangles Robert M. Adams
- Go Go Guggenheim John Richardson
- Importing Slaves William Cawthon, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Made in the U.S.A. C. Vann Woodward
- Splendor and Miseries Francine du Plessix Gray
- The American Dilemma David Brion Davis
- The Art of Abraham Lincoln James M. McPherson
- The Genius of Cento Matthew Rutenberg
- The Possessed Luc Sante
- The Ways of Survival Ian Buruma
- To Protect the Kosovars Ivo Banac, Slavenka Drakulic, Lynne Mastnak, Silva Meznaric, and Vesna Pusic, et al.
- What’s a Girl to Do? Susan C. Cook, reply by Robert Craft
August
- A Moral Tale Gabriele Annan
- A Self-Made Man Ronald Steel
- Convicting Witches Steven T. Katz, reply by Edmund S. Morgan
- Defending Kantorowicz Robert L. Benson, Ralph E. Giesey, and Margaret B. Sevcenko, reply by Robert Bartlett
- Family Values Thomas R. Edwards
- In the Magic Circle Roger Shattuck
- Necessary Suffering? Michael E. Raynor, reply by Peter Singer
- Russell’s Paradox Stuart Hampshire
- The Center Holds! Ronald Dworkin
- The End of the Velvet Revolution Paul Wilson
- The Farm Hall Transcripts: The German Scientists and the Bomb Jeremy Bernstein
- The Hostage Garry Wills
- The Last Word John Banville
- The Morning After Benjamin M. Friedman
- The Swedish Way Carl Andre
- Tireless Messenger Helen Vendler
- Two Poems by John Ashbery John Ashbery
- When Pericles Spoke Gordon M. Messing
- Yugoslavia: The Revenger’s Tragedy Misha Glenny
September
- ‘Astonishing’ Philip Roth
- ‘Forms of Nationhood’ Richard Helgerson, reply by Frank Kermode
- ‘He Doth Not Sleep’ Richard Holmes
- A Matter of Survival Louis Begley
- Blazing Passions Geoffrey O’Brien
- Eye on the Prize Joan Didion
- Francis Bacon (1909–1992) Caroline Blackwood
- From the Coffee Shop F. Sionil Jose, reply by James Fenton
- Keeping the Faith George F. Kennan
- Limits of Translation Deke Dusinberre
- On the Edge Hilary Mantel
- Outing Mrs. Roosevelt Geoffrey C. Ward
- Revealing Bakhtin Aileen Kelly
- The Born-Again Republicans Garry Wills
- The Master Builder of Venice Hugh Honour
- The New Americanists Frederick C. Crews
- The New Inequality Alan Ryan
- The Shame of Bosnia William Pfaff
October
- ‘The Proudest and Most Arrogant Man in France’ Julian Barnes
- A Death in Zimbabwe David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman
- A Doll’s House? Garry Wills
- A Triumph of the Gilded Age Sean Wilentz
- An Unadmirable Admiral Gordon Tullock, reply by Noel Annan
- Bad Boy Ian Buruma
- Bosnia and the Balkans: An Exchange Nora Beloff and Theodossis C. Demetracopoulos, reply by Misha Glenny
- Cut-Throat Christ Or the New Ballad of the Dosi James Fenton
- Do the Right Thing Sue Halpern
- Great Dane Robert Craft
- How Independent is the Court? Cass R. Sunstein
- John Demjanjuk and the Failure of Justice Gitta Sereny
- Justice For Women! Martha C. Nussbaum
- Looking for Napoleon P. N. Furbank
- Moscow: The Front Page Jamey Gambrell
- Not So Free At Last Abraham Brumberg
- Reading a Riot Robert Darnton
- SAVE ‘NOVY MIR’ Arcadi Nebolsine
- Shock Treatment Sarah Kerr
- Strategies of Hell István Deák
- Tales from the Vienna Woods James Joll
- The Attack on I.F. Stone Andrew Brown
- The Fifth Freedom M.F. Perutz
- The Love that Dared to Speak its Name Jasper Griffin
- The Mad Poets Charles Rosen
- The Opera of ‘The Scarlet Letter’ Alfred Kazin
- The Other China Jonathan D. Spence
- The Proconsul James Chace
- The Romance of Sinclair Lewis Gore Vidal
- Tolerance Among Muslims, Christians, & Jews: An Exchange Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Rasool Nafisi, reply by Bernard Lewis
- Whose Crimea? Abraham Brumberg
- Witnesses to Evil István Deák
November
- ‘Animal Liberation’: An Exchange Charles S. Nicoll, Sharon M. Russell, and Audrey Lau, reply by Peter Singer
- ‘Bankrupting America’ David P. Calleo
- ‘Ill Seen Ill Said’ John Calder
- ‘Ill Seen Ill Said’ Everett C. Frost, reply by John Banville
- ‘Sex Work’? Tracy Quan, reply by Francine du Plessix Gray
- A Matter of Life and Death John Terborgh
- A New Colonialism Murray Kempton
- Answers Without Questions John Bayley
- Book of Books Books Denis Donoghue
- Bush Abroad Stanley Hoffmann
- Clinton’s Revolution Thomas Byrne Edsall
- Dreams That Money Can Buy Stephen Jay Gould
- Father Knows Best Garry Wills
- Free Speech and Its Limits George Brunn, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- Free Speech and Its Limits David L. Brooks
- Genet’s Last Stand Clifford Geertz
- Graveyard Utopia Gabriele Annan
- Holocaust Heroes István Deák
- How Britain Made It Keith Thomas
- How Wise Was Montaigne? John Weightman
- Invitation to a Beheading David Remnick
- Life Studies Michael Wood
- Love in a Cold Climate Robert Craft
- Not a Drummer Jim Huggon, reply by Richard Holmes
- Oshima’s Choice Annette Michelson
- Painting in the Dark Richard Dorment
- Pale Fire Witold Rybczynski
- Passions of Matisse Jack Flam
- Plague on the Globe? E.A.J. Honigmann
- Restoration Drama James Beck, reply by Hugh Honour
- Squaring the Chinese Circle Jonathan Mirsky
- The Confusion over Evolution Stephen Jay Gould
- The Deficit: A Way Out Robert L. Heilbroner
- The Guggenheim Story Thomas M. Messer, reply by John Richardson
- The Guggenheim Story Bryan Robertson
- Twenty-First Century Limited Alan Ryan
- Undemocratic Vistas Garry Wills
December
- ‘Contained Depression’ S. Jay Levy, reply by Robert L. Heilbroner
- ‘Love in a Cold Climate’ Nigel Nicolson, reply by Robert Craft
- ‘The Attack on I.F. Stone’: An Exchange Herbert Romerstein and Martin Garbus, reply by Andrew Brown
- A Dangerously Modern Poet Bernard Knox
- A-Symmetry Martin Gardner
- Athena’s Magic Garry Wills
- Bashing Japan? Pat Choate
- Bashing Japan? Richard B. Pesikoff, reply by Ian Buruma
- Clinton’s Opportunity Benjamin M. Friedman
- Conqueror of Paris Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh
- Cornering the Market Robert M. Adams
- Cutting Classes David Cannadine
- Czechoslovakia: The Pain of Divorce Paul Wilson
- Deng’s Last Campaign Roderick MacFarquhar
- Design for Living Thomas R. Edwards
- Free Speech in Greece Lance Selfa
- Good Germans Gordon A. Craig
- Inventing American Reality Ada Louise Huxtable
- No Joke John Hohnsbeen
- Pilgrim’s Progress John Updike
- Playing the Palace Joseph Connors
- Present After the Creation George W. Ball
- Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary Stephen Kinzer
- Sighing Fields Gabriele Annan
- Spring Rainstorm Boris Pasternak, translated by Mark Rudman and Bohdan Boychuk
- The Golden Age Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
- The Last Hurrah Murray Kempton
- The Middle Way Alfred Kazin
- The New Mafia Michael Massing
- The One and Only
- Time of Indifference John Bayley
- Undiscovered Country Alison Lurie
- What Clinton Won Thomas Byrne Edsall
- Who Was Edmund Burke? Alan Ryan