- ‘Playing the Piano’ Kenneth Wolf and Marc Ryser, reply by Charles Rosen
- A Cup of Coffee Gaspar Miklos Tamas, reply by Neal Ascherson
- A Legacy Hilary Mantel
- A Wind from the West Charles Hope
- American Sermons Michael Warner, reply by Edmund S. Morgan
- An Exchange on Thoreau Lawrence Buell, reply by Leo Marx
- Back to Life in Texas Sue Halpern
- Billion-Dollar Babies James Fallows
- Buried Lives Conor Cruise O’Brien
- Chaos Gore Vidal
- Chiapas: The Indians’ Prophet Enrique Krauze
- Confessions of a Child of the Century John Russell
- Family Values Robert Skidelsky
- Giving Offense James Fenton
- Going All the Way J. M. Coetzee
- Growing Up Michael A. Pawel, reply by Hilary Mantel
- Is There a Belgium? Tony Judt
- It Happened One Night John Bayley
- Jews and Blacks in America David Brion Davis
- Keeping the Reader Alive Michael Wood
- Life and Death of a Hero Lawrence Weschler
- Living & Dying Stevan Harrell
- Mission Possible Gordon A. Craig
- Not for Muggles Alison Lurie
- On ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ John Updike
- Opening Moves Louis Menand
- Pretty to Think So Barbara Probst Solomon, reply by Thomas Flanagan
- Rock of Ages Geoffrey O’Brien
- Something Happened Helen Epstein
- The First Laugh Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
- The Motherless Child John Banville
- The Other India Pankaj Mishra
- The Perils of Friendship Mark Lilla
- The Real Thing Christopher Hitchens
- The Struggle for Iran Christopher de Bellaigue
- The Trial of Maurice Papon Robert O. Paxton
- To Old Age Kenneth Koch
- Unfinished Women Hermione Lee
- Varieties of Polytheistic Experience Garth Fowden
- Who Was Hadrian? Hugh Lloyd-Jones
- Wonders of a Lost World Tim Flannery