January
- ‘In the Palace of Nightmares’: An Exchange Ismail Kadare, reply by Noel Malcolm
- ‘Making the Wrong Joyce’: An Exchange Danis Rose, reply by John Kidd
- A Finished Woman P. N. Furbank
- A Language of Their Own Garry Wills
- Eugenics Denied Raphael Falk, reply by William Pfaff
- High Flier Al Alvarez
- Instead of NATO Ronald Steel
- Lost Neal Ascherson
- Lost Horizons Pico Iyer
- Missing Persons Tatyana Tolstaya
- Object Lessons James Fenton
- On the Brink Tony Judt
- Playboy of the Roman World Bernard Knox
- The Charms of NATO Václav Havel
- The Mahdi’s Bullet Gabriele Annan
- The Outsider John Weightman
- Thimble Theater Luc Sante
- Tru Confessions Elizabeth Hardwick
February
- ‘Spoils of War’ Francoise Cachin, reply by Gordon A. Craig
- ‘The Hitler of History’ David Astor
- Asia: The Collapse and the Cure Lester C. Thurow
- Bosnia: Breaking the Machine Mark Danner
- Bosnia: The Turning Point Mark Danner
- Call of the Wild Bill McKibben
- Dangerous Liaisons C. Vann Woodward
- Delightful Tears Rosemary Dinnage
- Fakes? Geraldine Norman
- Fantasia Gabriele Annan
- From Memory Adam Zagajewski
- Inside the Locked Room Joyce Carol Oates
- L.A. Art Claus von Buelow, reply by Martin Filler
- Not ‘Everybody’s Dear Jane’ Hilary Mantel
- Not His Hogarth Ronald Paulson, reply by The Editors
- Russia’s Leaking Nukes Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- The Afterlife of Anne Frank Ian Buruma
- The Dangers of Divinity Peter Partner
- The End of the Troubles? Fintan O’Toole
- The Fifth City Witold Rybczynski
- The Mark of Cain Jonathan Mirsky
- The Myth of W.B. Yeats Denis Donoghue
- The Other Perrault Charles Rosen
- The Truth About Dictatorship Timothy Garton Ash
- The Vatican Monarchy Garry Wills
- Verrocchio: The New Cicerone James Fenton
March
- ‘Instead of NATO’ Daniel Fried, reply by Ronald Steel
- ‘The Confusion over Cloning’: An Exchange Harold T. Shapiro, James F. Childress, and Thomas H. Murray, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- ‘The Lion King’: An Exchange Charles Hill, reply by Joan Didion
- ‘The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding’ Martin Kilson, reply by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- ‘Whither Dost Thou Hasten?’ J. M. Coetzee
- A Family Romance James Fenton
- A Garland of Ibids John Gross
- A Visit to Havana Alma Guillermoprieto
- American Apostle Robert Stone
- Bosnia: The Great Betrayal Mark Danner
- Computers: Waiting for the Revolution Jeff Madrick
- End of an Epic Brad Leithauser
- Justice for Blacks? Nicholas Lemann
- Kenneth Starr and the Independent Counsel Act Lawrence E. Walsh
- Lincoln’s Herndon James M. McPherson
- Louisiana Story Roger Shattuck
- Modern Love D.J. Enright
- Not a Franciscan (Rev.) Anthony M. Carrozzo
- Pioneer John Updike
- Portraits of a Lady P. N. Furbank
- Prophet Jason Epstein
- Pulling Down the Temple Thomas R. Edwards
- Revisiting Lolita Michael Wood
- Talking with Wei Jingsheng Jonathan Mirsky
- The Archaeological Me Simon Leys
- The Art of the Possible Francis Haskell
- The Governor in Drag?
- The International Organ Traffic David J. Rothman
- The Mysterious ‘Song’ Gerard Launay, reply by Alicia Ostriker
- The Sad State of the Republic Václav Havel
- What? No Flowers? Lars-Erik Nelson
April
- ‘The End of the Troubles?’: An Exchange Tom Hayden, reply by Fintan O’Toole
- Algeria: The Horror Barbara Smith
- Anne Frank’s Afterlife Cynthia Ozick, reply by Ian Buruma
- Bravest and Best Russell Baker
- Cards of Identity Richard Jenkyns
- Clinton & the Jones Case William A. Edmundson, reply by Lawrence E. Walsh
- Culture Ho! Peter Holland
- Darwinian Virtues Frank J. Sulloway
- Edmund Wilson in Benares Pankaj Mishra
- Feeding the Fire Robin Robertson
- Giant in the Woods Martin Filler
- God’s Own Terrorist Alfred Kazin
- How Great Art Was Made James Fenton
- How Russia Is Ruled David Remnick
- How the West Won William H. McNeill
- In the Genetic Toyshop Steve Jones
- In the Giving Vein Ernst Gombrich
- In the Palace of Nightmares’
- JQA: For the Defense Eric L. McKitrick
- Laughter in the Dark Alfred Kazin
- Not a Judge Jim Sleeper, reply by Nicholas Lemann
- Performing Homer Gregory Nagy
- Recapturing the American Sound Geoffrey O’Brien
- Remember the Maine? Hugh Thomas
- Russia’s Dream City Robert Cottrell
- Sidney Hook’s Revolution Theodore H. Draper
- Slouching Toward Dayton Mark Danner
- So Alert with Love Rosemary Dinnage
- Tenebrae John Ashbery
- The Bloodiest War Gordon S. Wood
- The Fall of TWA 800: The Possibility of Electromagnetic Interference Elaine Scarry
- The Midrash Mishmash Frank Kermode
- The Other Mann Gordon A. Craig
- The Shock of Recognition Edward Field and Tobias Schneebaum
- Two Poems Alfred Brendel
- Varieties of Madness Joan Didion
May
- ‘Largesse’ Jean Starobinski, reply by Ernst Gombrich
- ‘The Prehistory of the Mind’: An Exchange Steven Mithen and Merlin Donald, reply by Howard Gardner
- 2001 Richard Jenkyns
- A Dysfunctional Family Theodore H. Draper
- A Murder in South Africa Neal Ascherson
- A Tale of Two Reactions Mark Lilla
- Angels of LA John Gregory Dunne
- Anne Frank’s Afterlife, cont’d. Ralph Melnick, reply by Ian Buruma
- Bad Blood Warren Zimmermann
- Clouds over Arles Jill-Elyse Grossvogel, reply by Geraldine Norman
- Comparatively Speaking Leonard Thompson
- Europe: Iceberg Ahead Timothy Garton Ash
- Goodfellas in Shanghai Jonathan D. Spence
- In Memory of Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Enrique Krauze
- Is God in the Lab? Freeman Dyson
- Kafka: Translators on Trial J. M. Coetzee
- Keats the Radical James Fenton
- Powell’s Way Christopher Hitchens
- Simply Himself John Golding
- Strand’s Great Moment Henry Allen
- Sunday Afternoon Live Robert Craft
- TV: The Mummy’s Curse John Leonard
- The Dirty War Kenneth Maxwell
- The First and the Last Isaiah Berlin
- The Language of Poetry Kenneth Koch
- The Other Israel Avishai Margalit
- The Wonder Boy Gerald Early
- Victoria’s Secrets Millicent Bell
- Who’s Afraid of the Avant-Garde? Charles Rosen
- Will There Be a War in Kosovo? Tim Judah
June
- ‘Who’s Afraid of the Avant-Garde?’: An Exchange Ivan Hewett and Jessica Krash, reply by Charles Rosen
- A Big Business David Brion Davis
- A New, Nuclear, India? Pankaj Mishra
- Down and Out in East Tokyo Ian Buruma
- Epilogue Margaret Scott
- Fun City Jasper Griffin
- Funny Faces John Updike
- Grand Illusion Andrew Hacker
- Horace, Our Contemporary Bernard Knox
- How to Think About the Stock Market Roger E. Alcaly
- How to Think About the Swiss Gordon A. Craig
- I’d Walk a Mile for a Fee Nicholas Lemann
- In the Bosom of the Family Ann Hulbert
- Indonesia: The Man of the Moment V.S. Naipaul
- Justice for Scalia Robert Post
- Keeping the Faith Sam Tanenhaus
- Love and Misery in Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto
- Neither Here Nor There Effie Traylor-Parkes
- On Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) Murray Kempton and Whitney Balliett
- Reactions Daniel Levine, reply by Mark Lilla
- Release Ratna Sarumpaet! Karen Corbett, Liz Jones, Sheela Langeberg, Alison Lyssa, and Kate McNamara, et al.
- Roman Candle William Weaver
- Sudan: The Perils of Aid John Ryle
- The Beechers Robert B. Seaver, reply by Robert Stone
- The Betrayal of History Alexander Stille
- The Charms of Theodore Fontane Gabriele Annan
- The Genius of Parma Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Imitation of Our Lord Don Quixote Simon Leys
- The Mindsnatchers Frederick C. Crews
- The Politics of Jacques Derrida Mark Lilla
- The Return of Janet Lewis Larry McMurtry
- The Scripture of Utopia Patricia Storace
- Those Were the Days Garry Wills
- Three Poems Zbigniew Herbert and Bogdana Carpenter, translated from the Polish by John Carpenter
- Under the Overcoat John Bayley
- What Happened in Hudson County? Luc Sante
July
- 407 Highland Ave., Orange, N.J. Henry Allen
- A Lost Generation Joyce Carol Oates
- An Appeal for the Oslo Agreement David Ball
- An Exchange on TWA 800 Elaine Scarry, reply by James E. Hall
- Child’s Play Geoffrey O’Brien
- How Milosevic Hangs On Tim Judah
- In the Empire of Islam Ian Buruma
- Kosovo’s History Noel Malcolm
- Life & Death on the Social Ladder Helen Epstein
- Looking for the Sheriff Brian Urquhart
- My Blue Heaven Diane Johnson
- Nesting Dolls Gabriele Annan
- On Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) Andrew Delbanco
- On the Love Boat Michael Wood
- Sleepwalkers Cathleen Schine
- Slumming Garry Wills
- The Exile Russell Baker
- The Way We Write Now John Bayley
- Words and Things Huston Smith, reply by Freeman Dyson
August
- A Room of One’s Own James Fenton
- Counsels on Foreign Relations Tony Judt
- Democratic Vistas? Jonathan Mirsky
- How Odd of God Garry Wills
- Indonesia Reborn? Margaret Scott
- Partner in the Park Witold Rybczynski
- Swing King Whitney Balliett
- TWA 800: A Second Exchange Elaine Scarry and James E. Hall
- The Cambodian Calamity Henry Kamm
- The Case of Lani Guinier Anthony Lewis
- The Gang’s All Here Thomas R. Edwards
- The Good, the Bad & the Bourgeois Gordon A. Craig
- The Last Days of Nietzsche John Banville
- The Masked Avenger Fintan O’Toole
- The Rose of Paracelsus Jorge Luis Borges
- Whatever Happened to Whitewater? Lars-Erik Nelson
September
- ‘Affirmative Race Law’ Katheryn K. Russell, reply by Nicholas Lemann
- ‘Divorce Culture’ Stephanie Coontz and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, reply by Andrew Hacker
- A Gory Future? Lars-Erik Nelson
- Aalto and Hitler Michael Trencher, reply by Martin Filler
- Chechnya: How Russia Lost Robert Cottrell
- Depth-Sightings Joyce Carol Oates
- Don’t Say Goodbye Ian Buruma
- Fresh Air Blues Sue Halpern
- Jerry Don’t Surf Louis Menand
- Loyal Toward Reality Michael Scammell
- Memento Mori Al Alvarez
- Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness Laurence H. Tribe
- Revolution Watch: An Exchange Bob Davis and David Wessel, reply by Jeff Madrick
- Small Expectations Sarah Kerr
- The ‘Tangled Web’: An Exchange Henry A. Kissinger, reply by Tony Judt
- The Case of the Loony Lexicographer John Gross
- The Country of Anything Goes General Olusegun Obasanjo
- The Killing Fields of Bosnia Mark Danner
- The L-Word Alan Ryan
- The Lani Guinier Case Abigail Thernstrom
- The New New Math Martin Gardner
- The Sun Also Sets A.O. Scott
- The Way to Grant’s Tomb Joseph Connors
October
- ‘A Tangled Web’ William Bundy
- ‘Operation Storm’ Mark Danner
- ‘When Words Collide’: An Exchange Budd Hopkins, David M. Jacobs, David F. Maier, and Thomas L. Dumm, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- A Great Leap Backward? Liu Binyan and Perry Link
- Affirming Affirmative Action Ronald Dworkin
- Aimez-Vous Brahms? Charles Rosen
- Beat the Devil Louis Menand
- Behind the Crimson Curtain Kathleen M. Sullivan
- Bill & the Emperor Garry Wills
- Borges’s Dark Mirror J. M. Coetzee
- Cat and Mustang: a Still Life Brad Leithauser
- Chopping Off the Golden Bough Jasper Griffin
- Clinton Agonistes Joan Didion
- Death on the Social Ladder Richard G. Wilkinson and Meyer Friedman, reply by Helen Epstein
- Deep Hanging Out Clifford Geertz
- Fidel in the Evening Alma Guillermoprieto
- How Many People Can the Earth Support? Joel E. Cohen
- Impasse in Kosovo Tim Judah
- Irrational Numbers Peter D. Lax and Anneli Lax, reply by Joan Didion
- Men, Women & Beasts James Fenton
- November Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Samuel Charters
- On JFK: An Interview with Isaiah Berlin Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- On Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) Adam Michnik
- Orwell in 1998 Timothy Garton Ash
- Prologue: for a Stage Presentation of the Inferno Robert Pinsky
- Staring Through the Stitches Helen Vendler
- Stravinsky & Balanchine Robert Craft
- Survival of the Nicest? Richard C. Lewontin
- The Crack In the China Anita Desai
- The Eye of Walker Evans Luc Sante
- The Man Who Invented Natural History Stephen Jay Gould
- The New Demon Benjamin M. Friedman
- The Reluctant Republicans Edmund S. Morgan
- The Revolution That Didn’t Happen Steven Weinberg
- The Sphinx of Russia Aileen Kelly
- The West Without Chili Larry McMurtry
- The Wise Woman Julian Barnes
- To the Pith of London’s Heart John Bayley
- Two Poems W.S. Merwin
- Two Poems Zbigniew Herbert
- Wall Street Blues Leon Levy and Jeff Madrick
- While You Were Out Clifford Paul Fetters
November
- Believe It or Not Anthony Grafton
- Between a and B James Lasdun
- Bye-Bye Bech David Lodge
- Darwin in Dayton Daniel J. Kevles
- Dean of the Cold War Noel Annan
- Discreet Charm of Nihilism Czeslaw Milosz
- Do Parents Count? Howard Gardner
- Domestic Architecture James Merrill
- Doris Lessing’s Double Life Rosemary Dinnage
- Dostoevsky & ‘Don Quixote’ Lev Loseff, reply by Simon Leys
- Escape Artists Hilary Mantel
- Goodbye to Bonn Timothy Garton Ash
- Guess Who Pays for Workfare? Robert M. Solow
- He’s the Top! Brad Leithauser
- Hello to Berlin Ian Buruma
- Hungry and Homeless Louis Lowenstein
- Iran’s Unlikely President Shaul Bakhash
- Is Affirmative Action Doomed? Ronald Dworkin
- Leonardo’s Nephew James Fenton
- Monet Our Contemporary Robert L. Herbert
- Mystic Scientist Fintan O’Toole
- Nietzsche’s Complaint John Banville
- Pricks and Kicks Gabriele Annan
- Russian Roulette Tatyana Tolstaya
- Scholars Against Milosevic István Deák, Hugh Agnew, Ivo Banac, Dimitrije Djordjevic, and John V.A Fine, et al.
- The Blue Revolution Michael Massing
- The Court the US Doesn’t Want Kenneth Roth
- The End of Explanation? Bernard Williams
- The Landmines Ban & Its Discontents John Ryle
- The Magic of James Baldwin Darryl Pinckney
- The Not Very Grand Inquisitor Lars-Erik Nelson
- Under the Volcano Bernard Knox
- Vivacious Ghost William H. McNeill
- Waiting for Lefty Robert Stone
- What Follies and Paradoxes! John Bayley
December
- ‘A Nice Pleasant Youth’ John Gross
- ‘Higher Superstition’: An Exchange Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- A Letter on Germany George F. Kennan
- A Man Half Full Norman Mailer
- A Matter of Life and Death A.O. Scott
- A la Recherche du Temps Perdu Tony Judt
- Admiration Society Rick Wallach, reply by A.O. Scott
- Africa: The Hidden History Kwame Anthony Appiah
- China is Near Richard Jenkyns
- Democracy for Sale Lars-Erik Nelson
- Destiny in Any Case Gordon A. Craig
- Footprints of a Shadow W.S. Merwin
- Giant Simon Leys
- God in the Computer Keith Thomas
- Grand Illusions James Fenton
- Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter! John Russell
- Hedge Fund Mysteries Leon Levy and Jeff Madrick
- Jackson Whole John Updike
- Just Say ‘Wait a Minute’ Malcolm Gladwell
- Last Summer on the Vineyard Christopher Hitchens
- New World Disorder James Chace
- Oranges James Merrill
- Out of Novemberland André Aciman
- Query Steven Petranik
- Revelations John Szarkowski, reply by Henry Allen
- Sandra’s Math Block Ruth M. Heaton, reply by Martin Gardner
- Scientists Behaving Badly David L. Hull
- Silent Screams Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Big American Crime Edmund S. Morgan
- The Hack of Genius P. N. Furbank
- The New New Math Timothy V. Craine, reply by Martin Gardner
- The Solzhenitsyn Archipelago Michael Scammell
- The Watchman’s Lament Ted Hughes
- Through the Looking-Glass James Fenton
- William James & the Case of the Epileptic Patient Louis Menand
- Wise Man Alan Ryan