January
- ‘So What?’ David Marsh, reply by Ingrid D. Rowland
- ‘Victims of Memory’: An Exchange Theresa Reid, Richard B. Gartner, Dodi Goldman, Carol Albert, and Lori Caplowitz Bohm, et al.
- A Call for Papers Prudence Crowther and James Taibi
- Balzac’s Genius & Other Paradoxes Simon Leys
- Heade Storms John Updike
- How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying Kwame Anthony Appiah
- On Not Signing an Appeal A.D. Harvey and Thomas Mann
- Portrait of the Biologist as a Young Man Jared Diamond
- Prague: Intellectuals & Politicians Timothy Garton Ash
- Reading Brecht, Writing Brecht Ronald Speirs
- Reading Brecht, Writing Brecht Ian Strasfogel, reply by Michael Meyer
- Reading Brecht, Writing Brecht John Willett
- Talking to Cuba: An Exchange Maurice Halperin and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., reply by Peter Kornbluh and James G. Blight
- Technology’s Lesson Marshall E. Blume, Jeremy J. Siegel, and Dan Rottenberg
- The Baby Mao Lucian W. Pye
- The Downhill Slope Rosemary Dinnage
- The F-Word Herbert C. Morton
- The Fabulous Five Noel Annan
- The Republican Promise James Fallows
- When the Spirit Moves Eavan Boland
February
- ‘The Bell Curve’ and Its Sources Richard Lynn, reply by Charles Lane
- ‘The Bell Curve’ and Its Sources Harry F. Weyher, reply by Charles Lane
- ‘The Margaret Ghost’ Millicent Bell
- ‘The Seated Sublime’ Joseph Connors
- A Family Affair Murray Kempton
- A Letter to Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Elena Bonner, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
- After the Detonation of the Moon Brad Leithauser
- Defending the Atom Scientists Jeremy J. Stone
- Lonely Passion Al Alvarez
- On Playing Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto Alfred Brendel
- Over the Dark River Anne Barton
- Pragmatism Rides Again Alan Ryan
- Rags! Diane Johnson
- Real Magicians Hilary Mantel
- Rev. Robertson’s Grand International Conspiracy Theory Michael Lind
- Sound and Fury Frank Kermode
- Talking Cuba Alastair Reid
- Thanks for the Memories Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- The Captive Mind Warren Zimmermann
- The Chechen Tragedy Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- The Communist Bomb Rudolf Peierls
- The Great Art of Embarrassment Ian Buruma
- The Great Outsider Willibald Sauerländer
- The Liberator William Finnegan
- The Riddle of Umberto Eco Bernard Williams
- The Spanish Civil War: An Exchange William Herrick and Lillian Gates, reply by Bernard Knox
- The Un-Heimlich Maneuver John Banville
- Thomas’s Confirmation: The True Story Garry Wills
- Why Watch It, Anyway? Robert Hughes
March
- ‘Down on Their Luck’ David Wagner
- A Lesson from Michelangelo James Fenton
- A Moment’s Truth John Bayley
- A New European Order? Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
- Correction The Editors
- Emilio Segre Rosa M. Segre, reply by Jeremy Bernstein
- Finding It at the Movies Louis Menand
- Freud and Memory: An Exchange Matthew Hugh Erdelyi, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- Good Sports & Bad Stephen Jay Gould
- Green Ideas Sleeping Furiously Howard Gardner
- Life at the Edge of Chaos? John Maynard Smith
- Little Women P. N. Furbank
- Night Thoughts Rosemary Dinnage
- Notes From Underground David Remnick
- On James Merrill (1926–1995) Alison Lurie
- Pioneer Daniel R. Vining Jr., reply by Charles Lane
- Poussin’s Season Francis Haskell
- Saint of Nationalism Derek Beales
- Serving the KGB Shale Dworan, reply by Noel Annan
- Sexual & Other Abuse Ross E. Cheit, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- She Had It All Alison Lurie
- Slavery & the Jews David Brion Davis
- The Art of Witness Michael Ignatieff
- The Artist at High Tide J. M. Coetzee
- The Bellow & the Uproar Richard Jenkyns
- The CIA and Vietnam John McDermott, reply by Thomas Powers
- The Fifth Man Roland Perry, reply by Noel Annan
- The Fixers Edmund S. Morgan
- The Lincoln Brigade Peter N. Carroll
- The Moment That Counts: An Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson Michel Nuridsany
- The Shadow War Alma Guillermoprieto
- The Visionary Garry Wills
- Three Poems by James Merrill James Merrill
- Through the Looking Glass Gabriele Annan
- To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat’s Honor and Not Only Czeslaw Milosz
- Yugoslavia: The Great Fall Misha Glenny
April
- Anna Dostoevsky’s Diary Joseph Frank
- At Home in This Century Tony Judt
- Broken Blossoms Gabriele Annan
- Cosmic Leg-Pull Jasper Griffin
- Feminism and Philosophy: An Exchange Naomi Scheman and Vance Cope-Kasten, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum
- Fish and Roses John Banville
- Freud & His Defenders Marcia Cavell, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- Going Unconscious Jonathan Miller
- Great Sport Howard Webb, reply by Stephen Jay Gould
- His Anti-Semitic Sources Jacob Heilbrunn
- Home of the Brave Murray Kempton
- Hunt for the Last Judgment Garry Wills
- Infection: The Global Threat Richard Horton
- Is Cuba Really Changing? Jeri Laber
- Jonathan Liberson Prize Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Charles Larmore
- Kicking the Myth Habit Rosemary Dinnage
- Killing Chechnya Frederick C. Cuny
- Looking the Worst in the Eye Robert Stone
- Narco-Democracy? Murray Kempton
- No More Parades Gordon A. Craig
- On Pat Robertson His Defenders Michael Lind
- One Foot on the Moon Amos Elon
- Professionals Darryl Pinckney
- Promissory Notes Darryl Pinckney
- Rain Man Sarah Kerr
- Sex, Lies, and Social Science Richard C. Lewontin
- Slavery and the British Economy Seymour Drescher, reply by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa Robert Stone, Susan Sontag, Chinua Achebe, G.F. Michelsen, and Ben Okri, et al.
- The New Architecture Ada Louise Huxtable
- The Underground War for Shanghai Jonathan D. Spence
- Under Western Eyes Louis Menand
- Venice: Going for Glory Benedetta Craveri
- Walden-on-Sea Jonathan Raban
- Wonderful Town? Robert M. Adams
May
- ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ Lionel Abel, reply by Tony Judt
- ‘Prince of the City’ Franz Schulze, reply by Martin Filler
- ‘Sex, Lies, and Social Science’: An Exchange Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, Stuart Michaels, and Richard Sennett, et al.
- A Small Country’s Great Book Brad Leithauser
- Adders and Other Reptiles Czeslaw Milosz
- An Upward Look James Merrill
- Aristocrats Darryl Pinckney
- Business as Usual Murray Kempton
- Chronicles of Love and Loss Helen Vendler
- Downhill All the Way Tony Judt
- Feast of Pliny Ingrid D. Rowland
- Hanging Out Michael Massing
- Love on the Hudson Gore Vidal
- Low Lifes Luc Sante
- Mallarme’s Prolongation Robert Greer Cohn
- Mallarme’s Prolongation Jeffrey L. Sammons
- McNamara’s Peace Theodore H. Draper
- Nadar’s Swift Tact John Updike
- Praising Yeats M.L. Rosenthal, reply by Denis Donoghue
- Stumbles and Mumbles Michael Wood
- Supreme Outsider John Golding
- The Abuse of McNamara Theodore H. Draper
- The Amateur Hit Man Norman Mailer
- The Misunderstood Victory in Europe Norman Davies
- The Mystery of Innocence Hilary Mantel
- The Passions of Mme. Curie Jeremy Bernstein
- The Riddle of Walter Benjamin Mark Lilla
- The Scientist as Rebel Freeman Dyson
- The Women in the Cowshed Alan Ryan
- Who Should Go to College? Andrew Hacker
June
- ‘The Hidden War in Turkey’ William F. Schulz
- A Jew on Horseback Alfred Kazin
- Before the Fall Averil Cameron
- Correction The Editors
- Correction Norman Davies
- Death in Chechnya Sergei Kovalev
- Dispatches from the New Era D. Kern Holoman
- Disturbing the Peace Gordon S. Wood
- Enigma Abraham Brumberg, reply by Czeslaw Milosz
- Hilarion to Echo Patricia Storace
- India’s Virtuoso Builders Stuart Cary Welch
- Jumping Into the Sea Jonathan Mirsky
- Kicking the Air Denis Donoghue
- Mysteries of Mondrian John Golding
- On the Enchanted Hill Richard Holmes
- Roses for Henry James Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
- Sex, Lies, and Sociology David Burress, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- Sex, Lies, and Sociology Arthur L. Stinchcombe
- The ‘Contract with America’: What It Really Means Louis Fisher
- The Empire Strikes Back Pico Iyer
- The Lives of Graham Greene David Lodge
- The Loser’s Loser Robert Stone
- The Man with Qualities Jason Epstein
- The Rebirth of Beirut Peter Partner
- The Responsibility of Intellectuals Václav Havel
- The Somber Monster Robert Conquest
- The Wild Man Rosemary Dinnage
- Twice Around the Grounds Anne Barton
- Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky
- Un-Efican Activities April Bernard
- Under the Victorian Bed Noel Annan
- Ur-Fascism Umberto Eco
- We Unhappy Few C. Vann Woodward
July
- ‘The Amateur Hit Man’ J. Herbie DiFonzo, reply by Norman Mailer
- A Billboard Lovely as a Tree Henry Allen
- A New Way of Seeing Stuart Hampshire
- Bad Man from Olympus Thomas C. Grey
- Burma: Splendor and Miseries Hugh Honour
- Central Europe: The Present Past Timothy Garton Ash
- George Grosz’s Amerika Ian Buruma
- Indonesia’s Unfree Press Catherine Drucker
- Is Homosexuality Inherited? Richard Horton
- Journey into the Dark Louis Menand
- Kolo Joseph Brodsky
- Not Granted Jay A. Hurwitz, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Notes from Underground Murray Kempton
- Ode to the West Wing Christopher Hitchens
- Russia: The Power of the Mob Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- The Big Sound Joseph Kerman
- The New France? Stanley Hoffmann
- The Strange Case of Pablo Chapa John Womack Jr.
August
- ‘Here We Are In Egypt’ Gustave Flaubert, translated by Geoffrey Wall
- ‘Sex, Lies, and Social Science’: Another Exchange Christine K. Cassel and Howard Schuman, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- Cherchez la Femme Robert Darnton
- End of the Line Gabriele Annan
- Gedächtnisfeier Heinrich Heine, translated by Hal Draper
- Hopper’s Polluted Silence John Updike
- In China’s Gulag Jonathan D. Spence
- McNamara & Vietnam Kay Merkel Boruff
- McNamara & Vietnam Peter Dale Scott
- McNamara & Vietnam David B. Zoellner, reply by Theodore H. Draper
- Mother of the World Ingrid D. Rowland
- Nice Work John Banville
- No Laughing Matter Thomas Powers
- Reckless People Elizabeth Hardwick
- The Backward Look John Bayley
- The Budget: Whom Can You Believe? Felix G. Rohatyn
- The Confidence Men Sarah Kerr
- The Global Threat Gordon Tullock, reply by Richard Horton
- The New Revolutionaries Garry Wills
- The Polish Invasion? Slawomir Magala, reply by Alfred Kazin
- The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich Joan Didion
- The Way We Live Now Cathleen Schine
- Two Unpublished Poems by W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats
- Why NATO Should Grow Strobe Talbott
September
- A Letter of Resignation Tadeusz Mazowiecki
- Beethoven’s Triumph Charles Rosen
- Bradley’s Escape Murray Kempton
- Casablanca Villanelle Patricia Storace
- Greene & Anti-Semitism Michael Shelden, reply by David Lodge
- Le Diable au Coeur Norman Cohn
- Little Guignol James Wood
- No Trumpets, No Drums Jonathan Mirsky
- On the Edge of Chaos Timothy Ferris
- Should NATO Grow? A Dissent Richard T. Davies
- Still Friends Lee Siegel, reply by Tony Judt
- The Big Cake Keith Thomas
- The Choice in the Balkans Warren Zimmermann
- The Complete Holmes Sheldon M. Novick, reply by Thomas C. Grey
- The Constant Wife Diane Johnson
- The End of Affluence Jeff Madrick
- The Mythical Life and Love of D.H. Lawrence Stephen Spender
- The UN’s Failure: An Interview with Tadeusz Mazowiecki Bernard Osser and Patrick de Saint-Exupery, translated from the French by Marc Romano
- The War Over The Bomb Ian Buruma
- To Keep and Bear Arms Garry Wills
- Twelve Angry Persons Andrew Hacker
October
- ‘A Matter of Temperament’ Saunders Mac Lane, reply by Freeman Dyson
- ‘It Will Shame the Congress’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- A Self-Made Man Robert M. Adams
- Adam’s Rib Nadine Gordimer
- Adrift in Iberia David Gilmour
- An American Tragedy Bernard Bailyn
- Are There Limits to Liberalism? Michael Walzer
- By Guess and by Gosh John Ashbery
- Can You Trust Vasari? Charles Hope
- Cartwheels at Dawn Norman Davies
- Correction Andrew Hacker
- Correction The Editors
- Demonizing the American Dilemma George M. Fredrickson
- Do Trials Work? Aryeh Neier, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
- Good Debt Robert L. Heilbroner, reply by Felix G. Rohatyn
- Heartburn Claire Messud
- Horror of Horrors Michael Wood
- In Defense of Algerian Journalists Human Rights Watch, Alliance of Independent Journalists, American Society of Newspaper Editors, International Centre Against Censorship Article 19, and Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists, et al.
- It Takes All Kinds Alan Ryan
- It Was Yang Mo Jonathan D. Spence
- Nabokov’s Dark Treasures John Banville
- Not Having It All Peter Holland
- Note The Editors
- Our Dante Bernard Knox
- Reductionism Redux Steven Weinberg
- Russian Lessons Tatyana Tolstaya
- Southern Comfort David Brion Davis
- Stop the Fatwa! Frances D’Souza
- The Best Years of Their Lives Noel Annan
- The Case for the Kid Michael C.D. Macdonald, reply by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Crusade Against Cosa Nostra Adrian Lyttelton
- The Founding Realist Gordon S. Wood
- The Madness of General Mladic Robert Block
- The Marlowe Murder Case Michael Neill
- The Singapore Way Ian Buruma
- The Terror Master Avishai Margalit
- The Time of Her Life P. N. Furbank
- The Triumphs of Tiepolo Hugh Honour
- The Wonder of Mozart Frank Kermode
- Under an Evil Star Gordon A. Craig
- What Are American Interests? Tony Judt
- Whitman’s Revolution Geoffrey O’Brien
November
- ‘The New War Over Hiroshima’: An Exchange Gar Alperovitz, Robert Jay Lifton, and Greg Mitchell, reply by Ian Buruma
- A God’s Life John Barton
- A Hero of Our Time William Shawcross
- An Anti-Intellectual Intellectual Theodore H. Draper
- Archer’s Way John Updike
- Author, Author Bernard Knox
- Beethoven’s Triumph’ Alfred Brendel, reply by Charles Rosen
- Beethoven’s Triumph’ William Kinderman
- Benevolent Dinosaur Derek Beales
- Correction The Editors
- Culture War Clifford Geertz
- Dah Gore Vidal
- Dangerous Women Millicent Bell
- Design for Living Witold Rybczynski
- Dreams of a Just World Stanley Hoffmann
- Extravaganza in Progress John Weightman
- Feet on the Ground John Bayley
- General Right Thomas Powers
- Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange Ward F. Odenwald, Frank R. Aqueno, Jonathan Ned Katz, Richard Strohman, and Richard C. Lewontin, et al.
- Genes, Memes, & Minds John Maynard Smith
- Governess on Speed Fiona MacCarthy
- Heat Lightning Murray Kempton
- Heroes and Hero Worship Joan Acocella
- Howl Frank Kermode
- Impressionists on Stage Robert L. Herbert
- In Love With Hitler Gordon A. Craig
- It Was Luke Elaine H. Pagels, reply by Norman Cohn
- Italy’s Dirty Linen Denis Mack Smith
- Just Like Old Times Michael Scammell
- Keeping the Hard Gemlike Flame John Gross
- Man’s Next-Best Friend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Metropolitan Life Jason Epstein
- Milking an Elk Robert Mazzocco
- Odd Man In Jeremy Bernstein
- Sharing the Credit Henry Hardy
- Story of X Joyce Carol Oates
- Strange and Desperate Cures Anthony Grafton
- The Birth of a Nation Misha Glenny
- The Christmas Story Vladimir Nabokov
- The Mystery of Consciousness John R. Searle
- The Mystery of Consciousness: Part II John R. Searle
- The Myth of Barry Goldwater Michael Lind
- The Perfectionist Richard Dorment
- The Politics of Self-Destruction Michael Ignatieff
- The Sins of the Fathers Robert Stone
- The Southern League David Brion Davis
- The Unexamined Life Luc Sante
- To Keep and Bear Arms: An Exchange Sanford Levinson, David C. Williams, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, and John K. Lattimer, reply by Garry Wills
- Victoria’s Secret Richard Jenkyns
- Voltaire’s Grin Richard Holmes
- Witness to the Fall George F. Kennan
- Women Musicians of Venice and The Red Priest Robert Craft
December
- ‘The Madness of General Mladic’ David Binder, reply by Robert Block
- ‘The Mystery of Consciousness’: An Exchange Daniel C. Dennett, reply by John R. Searle
- All Our Yesterdays Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Robert Mezey
- An Honest Eye John Updike
- Bosnia in Our Future Timothy Garton Ash
- Call Me Madame P. N. Furbank
- Götterdämmerung James M. McPherson
- Israel’s Demons Amos Elon
- Opening the Box of Delights Alison Lurie
- Saudades Do Brasil Claude Levi-Strauss, translated from the French by Sylvia Modelski
- Separated at Birth István Deák
- Sleepless Nights Michael Wood
- Slouching Toward Washington Darryl Pinckney
- The Beginning of the End Ian Buruma
- The Last Gentleman Murray Kempton
- The Pioneer Defended M.F. Perutz
- The Simple Art of Murder Joyce Carol Oates