January
- ‘Israel’s Demons’: An Exchange Jerold S. Auerbach and William Kolbrener, reply by Amos Elon
- ‘Neo-Pagan’ Poland Timothy Garton Ash
- A Mess of Improprieties
- An Affair to Remember Gabriele Annan
- Brinksmanship Roger Shattuck
- Congress Builds a Coffin Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Cracking the Bird Code John Terborgh
- Dangerous Liaison Alan Ryan
- Learning from Las Vegas Al Alvarez
- Melting into Air Rosemary Dinnage
- My Dream Team Veronica Geng
- On ‘Italy’s Dirty Linen’ Alberto Arbasino
- Subversives James Fenton
- The Hovering Life William H. Gass
- The Once and Future Princess David Cannadine
- Under Cézanne’s Spell John Golding
- Vermeer’s Mystery Theater Anthony Grafton
February
- ‘Temptations of a Superpower’ Ronald Steel, reply by Tony Judt
- A Letter of Resignation Sergei Kovalev, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
- A Short History of Anti-Hamitism James Fenton
- Alice, or The Art of Survival John Bayley
- Aristocrats Janet Malcolm
- Austria & the Ghost of the New Europe Tony Judt
- Bringing a Great Poet Back to Life Czeslaw Milosz
- Caught in the Web James Fallows
- Corrections M.F. Perutz
- Crime and Drugs: The New Myths Michael Massing
- Death’s Gray Land Rosemary Dinnage
- Getting Back to Life Alfred Brendel, reply by Charles Rosen
- God’s Country Michael Wood
- Hope for Labor Alfred Kazin, Robert N. Bellah, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Steve Fraser, and Nelson Lichtenstein, et al.
- Icon Ernst Gombrich
- Is There Enough Chinese Food? Vaclav Smil
- Jonathan Lieberson Prize Sidney Morgenbesser, Charles Larmore, and Isaac Levi
- Language and Evolution Noam Chomsky, reply by John Maynard Smith
- Notions of Freedom Brad Leithauser
- On Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
- On Rwanda J. F.
- On Statues James Fenton
- On Wei Jingsheng Susan Sontag
- On the Death of Mitterrand William Pfaff
- On the Frontier James Fenton
- Pulp Politics Christopher Hitchens
- River of Fire Jonathan Mirsky
- Speaking for Language J. M. Coetzee
- Tender Buttons Sarah Kerr
- The Beat of War Murray Kempton
- The Case of Wei Jingsheng William Styron, Robert Stone, Norman Mailer, Kenzaburo Oe, and Ronald Harwood, et al.
- The Case of the Kissing Senator Julia Reed
- The Genuine Article Edmund S. Morgan
- The Go-Between Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- The Great Prose Painter Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Last Hurrah Thomas Powers
- The Last of the Nasties? Richard C. Lewontin
- The Mann Nobody Knew Gordon A. Craig
- The Missed Chance in Bosnia Michael Ignatieff
- The New, Ruthless Economy Simon Head
- The Russian Prospect Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- The Secret of the Inquisition Henry Kamen
- Via Funari Joseph Brodsky
- What Doctors Don’t Tell Us David J. Rothman
- What Jane Austen Doesn’t Tell Us Louis Menand
March
- ‘On the Death of Mitterrand’: An Exchange Jean Daniel and Jean Lacouture, reply by William Pfaff
- Between Animal and Angel John Weightman
- Don’t Tread On Us Edmund S. Morgan
- Dover Virginia Hamilton Adair
- German Art: The Return of the Repressed Willibald Sauerländer
- In the Black Room of the World Darryl Pinckney
- Just Juries? Stephen J Adler, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Mrs. Thatcher’s Revenge Ian Buruma
- On Olga Havel (1933–1996) Timothy Garton Ash
- Palimpsest Regained J. M. Coetzee
- Peter Brook’s Way James Fenton
- Queen of the Golden Age Gore Vidal
- The Arendt/Heidegger Affair Lotte Kohler
- The Foul Balkan Sky? Robert D. Kaplan, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
- The Moral Reading of the Constitution Ronald Dworkin
- The Philosopher of Selfless Love Denis Donoghue
- The Postman Always Rings Twice Michael Wood
- The Republican Implosion Murray Kempton
- The Russian Academy: Preliminary Notes Joseph Brodsky
- Too Nice to Win? Alan Ryan
April
- ‘Missed Chance in Bosnia’ Nader Mousavizadeh, reply by Michael Ignatieff
- ‘The Writingest Explorers’ Gordon S. Wood
- A Genius of the Spiritual Life Alfred Kazin
- A Letter to a Palestinian Friend Amos Oz
- Ah! Sweet History of Life Francis Haskell
- Allowing for Mme De Stael Madelyn Gutwirth, reply by P. N. Furbank
- American Photography’s Golden Age Luc Sante
- An Affair to Remember Anne Barton
- Another Version of ‘Laments’ Michael J Mikos, reply by Czeslaw Milosz
- At the City Dump in Nantucket Joseph Brodsky
- Bringing Back a New Hobbes Quentin Skinner
- Cutting the Cake Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Degas & Women Robert L. Herbert
- Early Walk Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Far from the Promised Land George M. Fredrickson
- First Fine Careless Raptor Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- George Eliot, Radical Millicent Bell
- How Hell Worked Gordon A. Craig
- How to Succeed in Business Jeff Madrick
- Land of Opportunity? George M. Fredrickson
- Melville’s Fever Andrew Delbanco
- On the Barbary Shore Norman Davies
- On the New Russia Sergei Kovalev
- One More Art Simon Leys
- Over the Edge Patricia Ireland, reply by Julia Reed
- Pasteur and the Culture Wars: An Exchange Gerald L Geison, reply by M.F. Perutz
- Pure and Not So Simple David Sylvester
- Rise & Fall of a Revolutionary Theodore H. Draper
- Selecting Heine Michael A. Pawel
- Subversive Activities Edward Hirsch
- Tea with Alice Roger F Betteridge, reply by Roger Shattuck
- That Old Black Magic Hilary Mantel
- That’s Life! John Banville
- The Cherry Orchard Has to Come Down James Fenton
- The Clinton Scandals Garry Wills
- The Empress of Ice Cream Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Enlightened Despot Derek Beales
- The Myths of Robert Graves Denis Donoghue
- Tracer Timothy Garton Ash
- Whose Foreign Policy? Murray Kempton
- Why Darwin? Stephen Jay Gould
May
- ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’: An Exchange Marion Graeffin Doenhoff, reply by Gordon A. Craig
- ‘The Trouble with Computers’ Thomas K. Landauer, reply by James Fallows
- ‘Zola: A Life’ Roger Shattuck, reply by John Weightman
- An Exchange on James Madison Richard K. Matthews, reply by Gordon S. Wood
- Babylon Re-Revisited Thomas R. Edwards
- Bosnia: What the CIA Didn’t Tell Us Charles Lane and Thom Shanker
- Brown Leaves Revan Schendler
- Confessions of a Literary Man David Lodge
- Correction The Editors
- Dewey Rides Again Michael J Sandel
- Dying for Life Murray Kempton
- France Without Glory Tony Judt
- Half-Full Use Norman Kelvin, reply by Richard Dorment
- Hammer, Sickle, and Book David Remnick
- Home Fires Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- How China Lost Taiwan Jonathan Mirsky
- In the Blood Richard C. Lewontin
- Kings and the Queen of the Arts R.J.W. Evans
- Love à la Mode P. N. Furbank
- Mrs. Thatcher’s Ghost Alfred Sherman, reply by Ian Buruma
- Mystically Yours Pico Iyer
- New Poet in Town Al Alvarez
- Our Man in Moscow Theodore H. Draper
- Terror in the Mountains Michael Wood
- The Beijing Rebellion Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, reply by Ian Buruma
- The Best Show in London James Fenton
- The Chances of Shimon Peres Avishai Margalit
- The Libby Zion Case: An Exchange Natalie Robins, Terry MSW Mizrahi, and Joseph G Sweeting, reply by David J. Rothman
- The Scandal of the Classics Charles Rosen
- The Secrets of Maillol James Fenton
- The Shame of Lebanon Murray Kempton
- The Uses of God Norman Cohn
- The Wild Goose Chase Frank Kermode
- Truth and Heresy About AIDS Richard Horton
- Twain on the Grand Tour Gore Vidal
- Worth a Thousand Words? Helen Vendler
June
- ‘The Singapore Way’
- All About Eames Martin Filler
- Anxieties of Influence Jasper Griffin
- Corrections The Editors
- Eliot and the Jews Louis Menand
- Emily Dickinson’s Banquet of Abstemiousness Roger Shattuck
- En Route to the Catastrophe J. M. Coetzee
- Family Values Elizabeth Hardwick
- Goodbye to All That James Fenton
- His Ewe Lamb Robert Craft
- How to Read a Book Robert Darnton
- Italy: The Convulsions of Normalcy Alexander Stille
- Japan: In the Spirit World Ian Buruma
- Keystone Killers John Gregory Dunne
- Making It New David Herbert Donald, reply by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- Not So Poor Richard Gordon S. Wood
- Offering Jonathan Aaron
- On Tap Joan Acocella
- Seeing Musil Whole Philip H. Beard, reply by William H. Gass
- Star Fiona MacCarthy
- States of Emergency Hilary Mantel
- The Abominable Emperor Noel Annan
- The Angel in the Story Claire DeSilver, reply by Gore Vidal
- The CIA and Bosnia: An Exchange John Deutch, reply by Charles Lane and Thom Shanker
- The Cabinet of Dr. Haber M.F. Perutz
- The Calligraphic Spirit Jean Francois Billeter, reply by Simon Leys
- The Great Contest William H. McNeill
- The Hope for Europe Václav Havel
- The Marrying Kind Kwame Anthony Appiah
- The Pleasures of Abstinence Roger Shattuck
- The Poisoned Country Philip Gourevitch
- The Survivor Rosemary Dinnage
- Thomas Mann’s Frustration Eric Bentley
- Up to the Minutiae Michael Wood
- What Happened to the Revolution? Garry Wills
- Who Won the Cold War? Thomas Powers
July
- ‘Black Athena’ Revisited Martin Bernal, reply by Jasper Griffin
- ‘How to Succeed in Business’: An Exchange Thomas M. Doerflinger, reply by Jeff Madrick
- A Simple Facilitator P. N. Furbank
- Cabbage and Carrot Joseph Brodsky
- Europe: The Grand Illusion Tony Judt
- Goodbye to Affirmative Action? Andrew Hacker
- How To Win the Tobacco War Michael Massing
- It Was the Roof Ronald T. Ridley
- It Wasn’t 1984 Yoav J. Tenembaum, reply by Avishai Margalit
- Mrs. Eddy Builds Her Empire Caroline Fraser
- Sassoon’s War C.A. Schneck, reply by Denis Donoghue
- Some Versions of Pastoral Bill McKibben
- Stalin and the Jews Robert Conquest
- The Band Wagon Alberto Arbasino
- The Book of Cohen John Weightman
- The Nation’s Progress Murray Kempton
- The Orpheus of Ulster James Fenton
- The Pleasures of Melodrama Richard Jenkyns
- The Politics of Dignity Alan Ryan
- The Shadow Saint Murray Kempton
- The Would-Be Progressives Garry Wills
August
- ‘Black Athena Revisited’ Guy MacLean Rogers and Mary R. Lefkowitz
- ‘France’s Hollow Years’: An Exchange Jaap Querido, Robert J. Soucy, and David Carroll, reply by Tony Judt
- ‘The AIDS Heresy’: An Exchange Peter H. Duesberg, reply by Richard Horton
- All About Evil
- Anything Goes Gene Lyons
- Great Old Modern Brad Leithauser
- Inventing Lola Bruce Seymour, reply by Fiona MacCarthy
- Italian Eclogues Derek Walcott
- Not the Black and Tans James Fenton
- O Ye Laurels David Lodge
- Olympic Notes Prudence Crowther and James Taibi
- On Bosnian War Criminals: An Open Letter American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Friends Service Committee (Washington), American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, and American Muslim Council, et al.
- Prophet With Honor Warren Zimmermann
- Sex, Death, and the Courts
- Sokal’s Hoax Steven Weinberg
- The Ache in Eakins John Updike
- The Best of Both Worlds James Fenton
- The Struggle for the Kremlin Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- The Would-Be Gentleman Gordon S. Wood
September
- ‘Struggle for the Kremlin’: An Exchange Abraham Brumberg, reply by Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- ‘The AIDS Heresy’: Another Exchange Peter H. Duesberg, reply by Richard Horton
- ‘The Poisoned Country’ Liisa H. Malkki, reply by Philip Gourevitch
- A Tale of Three Leaders Garry Wills
- An Attack in Atlanta Nicholas Lemann
- Beyond Art Ingrid D. Rowland
- Doomsterism Paul Kennedy
- Getting Things Right Brad Leithauser
- Hollywood’s Trap Louis Menand
- In Defense of Mother Teresa James Martin
- In Pursuit of Fairness Ian Hacking
- Mark Twain’s Reputation Guy Cardwell, reply by Gore Vidal
- Professional Mystery? Gary Fisketjon, reply by Thomas R. Edwards
- The Arkansas State Troopers Gene Lyons
- The Consolation of Theosophy Frederick C. Crews
- The Deferential Spirit Joan Didion
- The Devil in the Details Gordon A. Craig
- The Pleasure of the Text Frank Kermode
- The Road to Kisses Kenneth Maxwell
- The Truth Teller Helen Vendler
- Why the Balkans Are So Violent Misha Glenny
October
- A Tale of Two Cities Garry Wills
- A Terrible State of Nerves Jean Moorcroft Wilson, reply by Denis Donoghue
- Asians at UCLA Carl G. Wagner, reply by Andrew Hacker
- At the Heart of Slavery David Brion Davis
- Censored in Palestine William Styron, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Gore Vidal, Kenzaburo Oe, and Ronald Harwood, et al.
- Choosing the Best Ian Jack
- Complaint John Rechy
- Degas in Chicago James Fenton
- Degas in the Evening James Fenton
- Dickinson’s Charm Adrian Piper, reply by Roger Shattuck
- Discovering the New World Patrick O’Brian
- Dream Time Alan Ryan
- Faking Picasso John Richardson
- Fear and Loathing in Europe Ian Buruma
- Granta’s Best Stewart O’Nan
- Granta’s Best Henry Louis Gates Jr., reply by David Lodge
- Here To Stay Brad Leithauser
- Hollywood: Opening Moves John Gregory Dunne
- Holy Warrior Tony Judt
- In the Wasteland Elizabeth Hardwick
- It’s Luxembourg! Tony Judt
- Keeping Arafat Occupied Murray Kempton
- Losers Witold Rybczynski
- Marble Girls of Athens Patricia Storace
- Marked Man John Gross
- Me, the People Murray Kempton
- Mexico: Murder Without Justice Alma Guillermoprieto
- Mortal Longings Caroline Fraser
- Nights at the Opera Robert Craft
- On Political Judgment Isaiah Berlin
- Only in Amerika J. M. Coetzee
- Other People’s Wives Michael Wood
- Palm Beach Story Thomas R. Edwards
- Pound, Eliot, & Anti-Semitism William Cookson, reply by Louis Menand
- Review of a Review Serge Lang, reply by Richard Horton
- Rwanda: The Big Risk David Rieff
- Sokal’s Hoax: An Exchange Michael Holquist, Robert Shulman, George Levine, M. Norton Wise, and Nina Byers, et al.
- Stalin’s Anti-Semitism Shimon Redlich, reply by Robert Conquest
- Subject Women Edmund S. Morgan
- That’s Life Gabriele Annan
- The Beethoven Takeover Joseph Kerman
- The Consolation of Theosophy II Frederick C. Crews
- The Curse of American Politics Ronald Dworkin
- The Hope for China Fang Lizhi and Perry Link
- The King of Weird Joyce Carol Oates
- The Myth of Florence Charles Hope
- The New Germany Gordon A. Craig
- The Plight of Algerian Journalists Avner Gidron
- The Politics of Betrayal Kanan Makiya
- There They Go Again Benjamin M. Friedman
- Ukrainians & the Holocaust Carol Garrard and John Garrard, reply by Robert Conquest
- Up Against the Wall Steve Jones
- Victims and Executioners Bernard Knox
- What Berthollet Wrote Stuart Pierson, reply by M.F. Perutz
- Whispers from the Abyss Michael Ignatieff
- White Mischief Jason Epstein
November
- A Hero of Antislavery Eric L. McKitrick
- An Unholy War Amos Oz
- Blavatsky Lite K. Paul Johnson, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- Bridges to the Invisible John Updike
- Bringing Homer Home Jasper Griffin
- Christian Science: An Exchange M. Victor Westberg, reply by Caroline Fraser
- Clinton & Welfare Robert N. Bellah
- Did Beethoven Have All the Luck? Charles Rosen
- Dole’s Three Strikes Louis Menand
- Drugs & the CIA Murray Kempton
- Easy Rider Bill McKibben
- Getting Even Frank Kermode
- Gifts of the Greeks Jasper Griffin
- Godfather D. Kern Holoman
- Goldhagen in Germany Josef Joffe
- Hating Hillary Garry Wills
- Homage from Catalonia Raymond Carr
- Hungary’s Revolution: Forty Years On Timothy Garton Ash
- In the Pasture Jorie Graham
- Irving Howe Memorial Morris Dickstein
- Million Dollar Legs Murray Kempton
- Modest Proposals Andrew Hacker
- On Szymborska Czeslaw Milosz
- Poet of Holy Dread John Bayley
- Something for the Boys Christopher Hitchens
- The Drama of Gottfried Semper Gordon A. Craig
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Stuart Hampshire
- The Lying Game Michael Wood
- The Making of the Taliban Jeri Laber
- The Man in the Otter Collar Neal Ascherson
- The Miracle at Chauvet Ernst Gombrich
- The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett John Banville
- The Rise & Fall of a Half-Genius Rosemary Dinnage
- The Roots of Radicalism Jared Diamond
- The Sky’s the Limit Ian Buruma
- The Supreme Fiction Denis Donoghue
- The Uses of Fascism Robert O. Paxton
- The Vincent Foster Case Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, reply by Gene Lyons
- Tragedy in Cambodia William Shawcross
- What Do Women Want? Diane Johnson
December
- A Banner With a Strange Device James Fenton
- But Is It True? Richard Jenkyns
- Gorbachev: Lingering Mysteries Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- High in the Lower Depths Nicholas Lemann
- Israel and the End of Zionism Amos Elon
- Last Chance for Bosnia? Warren Zimmermann
- Magnificent Obsession Geoffrey O’Brien
- Mother Teresa Christopher Hitchens
- Murder and Memory Hilary Mantel
- Not Cricket David Coady, reply by Steve Jones
- Social Security and Its Discontents Jeff Madrick
- The Art & Politics of the Nativity Garry Wills
- The Cambodian Tragedy, Cont’d William Shawcross
- The Historian’s Freedom Abraham H. Foxman
- The Power of Chastity Fiona MacCarthy
- The Risks of Witness Jonathan D. Spence
- The Second Oldest Profession Murray Kempton
- The Village Genius Anne Barton
- Working with Laing Clancy Sigal, reply by Rosemary Dinnage