- ‘The Voice at 3 AM’ Helen Vendler
- ‘Who Killed Homer?’: An Exchange Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath, reply by Peter Green
- A New Augustine Peter Brown
- Athens on Fifth Avenue Garry Wills
- Beethoven and the Big Change Joseph Kerman
- Billion-Dollar Baby Louis Menand
- Can We Ever Understand Consciousness? Colin McGinn
- Contretemps at Prince’s Gate Richard Dorment
- Dreamer Rosemary Dinnage
- Good News! Gregory Dowling, reply by Richard Holmes
- Hannah Arendt’sIntegrity Liliane Weissberg, reply by Amos Elon
- In Lorenzo’s Garden Charles Hope
- Inside the KLA Tim Judah
- Journey to the End of the Night Jonathan Raban
- Justice and the Kurds Christopher de Bellaigue
- Kosovo and Beyond Timothy Garton Ash
- Kosovo and the End of the Nation-State Václav Havel
- Letting Go Gabriele Annan
- Milosevic’s Final Solution Warren Zimmermann
- On ‘The Big Con’ Luc Sante
- On Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) John Updike
- On to Berlin Edward Jablonski, reply by Brad Leithauser
- Plantation Blues Edmund S. Morgan
- Rhymes with ‘IX’ Michael Comenetz, reply by Charles Rosen
- Sticking to the Union C. Vann Woodward, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Sunday Papers Charles Simic
- The Dalai Lama on Succession and on the CIA Jonathan Mirsky
- The Enigma of Erik Erikson Howard Gardner
- The Fall of The Black Empires Arthur Kempton
- The Fly in the DNA Helen Epstein
- The Friend of Promise John Banville
- The Jew from Tangier Anthony Grafton
- The Man Who Would Be King Ian Buruma
- The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey Joyce Carol Oates
- The Struggle Over Thoreau Leo Marx
- The War Against War Gordon A. Craig
- This Room John Ashbery
- Tight Little Island Michael Wood
- Uncovered Washington Joan Didion
- What Would Dr. Johnson Think? Lawrence Ladin, reply by Larry McMurtry
- With Paper Hats Still on Our Heads Charles Simic
- Wordsworth’s Spin Kenneth R. Johnston, reply by Anne Barton