January
- ‘Fear & Loathing in Europe’ Nicholas Hildyard, reply by Ian Buruma
- ‘O Unforgetting Elephant’ Julian Barnes
- Artist of the Floating World Ian Buruma
- Between Planes Louis Menand
- Bewitched Edmund S. Morgan
- Billions and Billions of Demons Richard C. Lewontin
- China: The Defining Moment Jonathan Mirsky
- Decline of the West? William H. McNeill
- Fall of the Falls Henry Allen
- On Drawing: An Exchange Avigdor Arikha, reply by James Fenton
- On Mother Teresa Simon Leys
- Prophets Gordon A. Craig
- Smoldering Indonesia Jeri Laber
- The Conspiracy That Failed Thomas Powers
- The Real Thing Janet Malcolm
February
- ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’: An Exchange Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, reply by Josef Joffe
- ‘Where the Dead Smiled’ Aileen Kelly
- A Passion for Science M.F. Perutz
- An International Episode Gabriele Annan
- Becoming Picasso James Fenton
- Big Mack Martin Filler
- Born Free Louis Menand
- Crooked Bones Steve Jones
- Endangered Environmentalists Daniel J. Kevles
- For Mr. Yurtçu’s Release Committee to Protect Journalists
- How the Other Half Lived Fiona MacCarthy
- In Love with Light Francis Haskell
- It’s a Wonderful Life Louis Menand
- Liberty’s Wild Man Gordon S. Wood
- Palestinian Abuses: the Amnesty Report William F. Schulz
- Pasteur’s ‘Private Science’ William C. Summers, reply by M.F. Perutz
- Rescuing R.D. Laing Daniel Burston, reply by Rosemary Dinnage
- Revelations John Banville
- The Core of Art? Avigdor Arikha
- The Ghost at the Feast Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Long Littleness of Life Christopher Hitchens
- The New Equality Murray Kempton
- The Plains That Broke the Plow Page Stegner
- The Real Scandal Garry Wills
- The World Turned Upside Down Frank Kermode
- Themes Czeslaw Milosz
- What’s Wrong with ‘Fascism’? Walter Laqueur, reply by Robert O. Paxton
- White Wives and Slave Mothers David Brion Davis
- Working Girl Sarah Kerr
March
- ‘The Gorbachev Factor’: An Exchange Amy Knight, reply by Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- American Adam Garry Wills
- An Appeal for Wang Dan Wolfgang Fuchs, Roger Howe, Richard Askey, Robion C. Kirby, and J.J. Kohn, et al.
- Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers’ Brief Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, and Judith Jarvis Thomson, et al.
- Bellocq’s Women Joseph L. Ruby, reply by Janet Malcolm
- Confidence Man Roger Shattuck
- Consciousness & the Philosophers John R. Searle
- Conspiring Against Hitler David Astor, reply by Thomas Powers
- Demolition Man Roderick MacFarquhar
- George Washington’s False Teeth Robert Darnton
- God’s Choice Ian Buruma
- Hollywood: Money That Dreams Can’t Buy Michael Wood
- Jerusalem Blues Amos Elon
- Jonathan Lieberson Prize Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Charles Larmore
- Living Ghosts John Bayley
- Outcasts of the Islands Jared Diamond
- Pirate Democracy Kenneth Maxwell
- Russia: The New Oligarchy Robert Cottrell
- Science & ‘The Demon-Haunted World’: An Exchange Wayne C. Booth, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- Taking Off? Peter Hart, reply by Christopher Hitchens
- Terrorists Robert Conquest
- The Blasted Oak Tree Rosemary Dinnage
- The Cost of Living: A New Myth Jeff Madrick
- The Great Forgotten Modernist John Richardson
- The Race is Over Freeman Dyson
- Their Man On Earth J. M. Coetzee
- Troubles I’ve Seen Joyce Carol Oates
- White Liberals, Black Problems Morris B. Abram, reply by Nicholas Lemann
- Who Was Thomas Jones? James Fenton
- With Malice Toward Many Murray Kempton
April
- ‘Born to Rebel’ Alice Schlegel
- ‘Nohow On’ Christopher Cahill
- ‘Pornography of Horror’? Y. Michal Bodemann, reply by Josef Joffe
- ‘Smoldering Indonesia’: An Exchange Robert L. Barry, reply by Jeri Laber
- Becoming Marianne Moore James Fenton
- Beethoven’s Genius: An Exchange Tia DeNora, reply by Charles Rosen
- Between the Acts Noel Annan
- Can Science Be Ethical? Freeman Dyson
- Cruel & Unusual Punishment William F. Schulz
- Germany vs. the Scientologists Josef Joffe
- Getting Cricket Straight Mike Marqusee
- How It Grew Robin Lane Fox
- In Search of the Wild Boy Gabriele Annan
- In the Serbian Soup Timothy Garton Ash
- It Was 1869 Herbert C. Friedmann
- It’s a Mad World Thomas R. Edwards
- Laughter in the Dark David Remnick
- Learning With Bruner Clifford Geertz
- Letter from an Iranian Prisoner Shaul Bakhash
- Murder in Chicago Umberto Eco
- No Laffer Matter Jude Wanniski, reply by Jason Epstein
- Peking, Hong Kong, & the US Jonathan Mirsky
- Portrait of an Enigma Eric L. McKitrick
- Reinventing the Corporation Roger E. Alcaly
- Russian Academy in Rome Alexander Schouvaloff
- Standing with Soyinka Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Wisława Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, and Saul Bellow, et al.
- Sybil—The Making of a Disease: An Interview with Dr. Herbert Spiegel Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Herbert Spiegel
- The Arts of Africa Kwame Anthony Appiah
- The Contradictory Genius Alan Lightman
- The Crack in the Teacup Bernard Knox
- The Missing Bassoon Stephen Basson, reply by Charles Rosen
- The Rest vs. the West Anthony Grafton
- The Romantic Circle Richard Holmes
- The Way They Live Now Tatyana Tolstaya
- Two Cheers for Rach 3 Joseph Kerman
- V. S. Pritchett, 1900–1997 Jason Epstein
- What Confucius Said Jonathan D. Spence
May
- ‘A More Glorious House’ Peter Brown
- ‘Consciousness and the Philosophers’: An Exchange David J. Chalmers, reply by John R. Searle
- ‘Standing with Soyinka’ E. Agbegir and A. Abubakar
- ‘The Philosopher’s Brief’: An Exchange George P. Fletcher, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- Advertisement for Himself Frank Kermode
- Becoming Hitler Gordon A. Craig
- Class Act John Bayley
- Democracy and the Deficit Kathleen M. Sullivan
- Doing the Continental R.J.W. Evans
- History Upside Down William H. McNeill
- Horse Sense Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- How Eliot Became Eliot Louis Menand
- How He Lost It Martin Gardner
- Lady Lazarus James Fenton
- Mythmaker Simon Leys
- New Germany, Old NATO Tony Judt
- On ‘The Seducer’s Diary’ John Updike
- Reaching the Limit Bill McKibben
- Refuseniks Fiona MacCarthy
- Subjects to Let Czeslaw Milosz
- The Double Life John Bayley
- The Drama of Ralph Ellison Darryl Pinckney
- The Enemy of Liberalism Mark Lilla
- The Great Leviathan Andrew Delbanco
- The Last Wilderness Charles Rycroft
- The Life of Literature Ian Patterson, reply by Christopher Hitchens
- The Many Arts of Elizabeth Bishop James Fenton
- The Whirr of Wings Rosemary Dinnage
- This New House Witold Rybczynski
June
- ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’ Jared Diamond, reply by William H. McNeill
- A Bone for the Nazis Mark Lilla
- A Magnificent Failure Al Alvarez
- America’s First Great Man Edmund S. Morgan
- At Pharaoh’s Court Amos Elon
- Before the Big Bang Steven Weinberg
- Conservatives, Nice and Nasty Alan Ryan
- Darwinian Fundamentalism Stephen Jay Gould
- Einstein Plus Denis Brian
- Entropology Louis Menand
- Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism Stephen Jay Gould
- Free Spirit Robert Darnton
- Fruits of the Loom Mary R. Lefkowitz
- Gorbachev & the Coup: An Exchange Archie Brown, reply by Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- Holding Out in Hong Kong Ian Buruma
- In the Center of the Earthquake Michael Ignatieff
- Lessons of an Immoderate Master John Gross
- Made in the USA Louis Menand
- Maid, Man, and Jew Peter Holland
- Memories of Hell István Deák
- On Murray Kempton (1917–1997) Elizabeth Hardwick
- On Murray Kempton (1917–1997) David Remnick
- Once Ain’t for Always Murray Kempton
- Paradise Lost Elizabeth Hardwick
- Peking’s Choice Jonathan Mirsky
- Scientologists and Nazis Bertram Fields, reply by Josef Joffe
- Struggles of a Prophet Alfred Kazin
- Tagore and His India Amartya Sen
- The Afterlife Richard Murphy
- The Cost of Living: An Exchange Robert J. Gordon and Zvi Griliches, reply by Jeff Madrick
- The European Irishman John Banville
- The Fifth Horseman David F. Durham, reply by Bill McKibben
- The Imperfect Spy Timothy Garton Ash
- The Medicine in Our Future Andrew Hacker
- The Road to Lhasa Jeremy Bernstein
- The Sally Hemings Case Barbara Chase-Riboud, reply by Gordon S. Wood
- The Self-Made Man James Fenton
- Welcome to Moor D.J. Enright
July
- Blowing Hot and Cold J. M. Coetzee
- Ceremony of Innocence Neal Ascherson
- Child’s Play Richard Jenkyns
- Cosmic Adventurer John Weightman
- Go Milk a Fruit Bat! Steve Jones
- Goodbye to All That Christopher Hitchens
- Living in Truth Liu Binyan
- Look Back in Anger Stanley Hoffmann
- No Man’s Land Gabriele Annan
- Paradise in a Dream Richard Holmes
- Peleus and Thetis Ovid
- Perseverance to the Point of Madness Michael Wood
- Russia After Chechnya Sergei Kovalev
- The Mummy’s Secret James Fenton
- True Confessions Timothy Garton Ash
August
- ‘Darwinian Fundamentalism’: An Exchange Daniel C. Dennett, reply by Stephen Jay Gould
- ‘Sweet as a Fig’ Joan Acocella
- A Letter to Chamoiseau Derek Walcott
- Can You Believe the New York Miracle? James Lardner
- Dusting Off the Declaration Gordon S. Wood
- Heart of Darkness Misha Glenny
- Hello to Berlin Anthony Grafton
- In the Shadows of Prosperity Jeff Madrick
- Inside the Billway Louis Menand
- Is the CIA Necessary? Theodore H. Draper
- It Was Agamemnon Mary R. Lefkowitz
- Nocamus Herbert R. Lottman
- Out of the Ruins Rosemary Dinnage
- Sein of the Times Geoffrey O’Brien
- Selling Out Hong Kong Ian Buruma
- The Curse and Blessing of South Africa Timothy Garton Ash
- The Revenge of Everest Caroline Fraser
September
- ‘Memories of Hell’: An Exchange R.J. Tyndorf, reply by István Deák
- A Friend in Prison Martin Gardner
- Assisted Suicide: What the Court Really Said Ronald Dworkin
- Betrayal Jonathan Mirsky
- Ghosts Gabriele Annan
- Impasse in Kosovo Aryeh Neier
- Making the Wrong Joyce John Kidd
- Monsieur Verdoux in Color Kenneth S. Lynn, reply by Michael Wood
- Not a Seducer M.G. Piety and P.A. Bauer, reply by John Updike
- On the ‘Virge’
- Query Hellmut Wohl
- Secret Sharers Noel Annan
- Seurat and the Sewers James Fenton
- Some Like It Hot Timothy Ferris
- Success Story Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- The Awful Truth Sue Halpern
- The Enigma of Philip II J.H. Elliott
- The Front Page Garry Wills
- The Risk of Freedom Andrew Delbanco
- The Vision of Leonardo Henri Zerner
October
- ‘Is the CIA Necessary?’: An Exchange Michael S. Thompson, reply by Theodore H. Draper
- ‘Poet of Resentment’ John Gregory Dunne
- A Single Jew Alfred Kazin
- America’s Caste System: Will It Change? George M. Fredrickson
- Among the Missing Gordon A. Craig
- Bothered and Bewildered Alison Lurie
- Broken Promises Larry McMurtry
- Congratulations! Sherrill W. Britton
- Desperate Characters Thomas R. Edwards
- Drunk with Love Alicia Ostriker
- Eugenics, Anyone? William Pfaff
- Evolutionary Psychology: An Exchange Steven Pinker, Werner Kalow, and Harold Kalant, reply by Stephen Jay Gould
- Family Secrets Thomas Flanagan
- Fantasia Martin Filler
- Feud Russell Baker
- Going Half the Way James Fenton
- India: The Imprint of Empire Roderick MacFarquhar
- It Happened in Milwaukee Janet Malcolm
- Lady Charlotte’s Bulls Richard Jenkyns
- Market-Driven Health Care Regina E. Herzlinger, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Report from an Undeclared War Alastair Reid
- Royal Comedy Ian Buruma
- Royal Tragedy Ian Buruma
- Show Us You Care, Ma’am Jasper Griffin and Miriam Griffin
- Slightly Sacred Poet John Bayley
- Terror in a Small Town Garry Wills
- The Bloodless War Thomas Powers
- The Confusion over Cloning Richard C. Lewontin
- The Gods of War Michael Ignatieff
- The Great Inventor Charles Rosen
- The Heart of the Matter James M. McPherson
- The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding Kwame Anthony Appiah
- The Riddle of the French Renaissance Willibald Sauerländer
- The Right Slogger John Kidd
- Thinking About Thinking Howard Gardner
- Why the Cold War Worked Tony Judt
November
- ‘America’s Caste System’: Two Exchanges
- A Life Elsewhere John Banville
- America’s Holy War Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- Anglo-Celtic Attitudes Helen Vendler
- As Many Homers As You Please Hayden N. Pelliccia
- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: An Exchange Yale Kamisar, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- Between Hell and History Luc Sante
- Blue Fingernails Noel Annan
- Chekhov the Subversive Aileen Kelly
- Death for Sale Amos Elon
- Doing the Continental Gordon S. Wood
- François Furet (1927–1997) Tony Judt
- In the Palace of Nightmares Noel Malcolm
- Killer Kids Joyce Carol Oates
- Lone Wolf D.J. Enright
- Looking Good Michael Wood
- Love Story Tatyana Tolstaya
- Man of the People? Gordon A. Craig
- Points of Order Richard Jenkyns
- Radio Free Yugoslavia Laura Silber and Veran Matic
- Reading Li Po (Saigon, December 18, 1995) Breyten Breytenbach, translated from the Afrikaans by Rita Dove
- Renoir the Radical Robert L. Herbert
- Résumé Luc Sante
- Speedy Fred’s Revolution Sean Wilentz
- The Case of Cases Theodore H. Draper
- The Case of Hannah Arendt Amos Elon
- The Long Voyage Home Alfred Kazin
- The Prophet Alan Ryan
- The Renaissance Revealed Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Set Within the Skull Steve Jones
- The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe Mark Danner
- The Voracious Eye James Fenton
- Three Reconstructions John Higham
- What We Like to Forget J. M. Coetzee
December
- ‘Ice and Fire and Solitude’ Helen Vendler
- A Lost World Gore Vidal
- A Nice German Lady James Fenton
- A Second Assassination Garry Wills
- America and the Bosnia Genocide Mark Danner
- American Pie Diane Johnson
- Can Genitals Be Beautiful? John Updike
- Clinton, the UN, and the Bosnian Disaster Mark Danner
- Disorder in Albania Jonathan Sunley, reply by Misha Glenny
- India: The Perils of Democracy Ian Buruma
- Irving Howe Memorial Morris Dickstein
- Nomad John Ryle
- Not Comparable Louise Asmal, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
- Not Getting the Lesson of the Master Louis Menand
- Not a Recruiter Michael Straight and Allen Weinstein
- Nothing to Hide George Bailey, reply by Thomas Powers
- On Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997) Michael Ignatieff, Stuart Hampshire, Alfred Brendel, and Aileen Kelly
- Passage to Brooklyn Edwin Frank
- Shadow Cities André Aciman
- Sugihara’s List Murray Sayle
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain Martin Filler
- The Croatians Are Coming Robert Stone
- The Drama of Whittaker Chambers Theodore H. Draper
- The Euro: The Engine That Couldn’t Josef Joffe
- The Fabulous La Fontaine Charles Rosen
- The Lion King Joan Didion
- The Naked Truth John Bayley
- The New Aristocracy Thomas L. Haskell
- The Pleasures of Reading Hogarth P. N. Furbank
- The Three Kings Adam Zagajewski
- The War Over the Family Andrew Hacker
- Their Jewish Problem Jasper Griffin
- West of Downtown Michael Massing