- ‘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