- ‘Aimez-Vous Brahms?’: An Exchange Jan Swafford, reply by Charles Rosen
- ‘Working Toward the Führer’ Gordon A. Craig
- Back to the Future Ian Buruma
- Children in Arms John Ryle
- Fire & Ice Garry Wills
- Founding Father Steven Aftergood
- Homer Lives! Peter Green
- In the Dark Continent Rosemary Dinnage
- It Was Aircraft James Fallows
- Kissinger & the Emperor Jonathan D. Spence
- Mind Over Matter Ian Hacking
- Mr. W. on Show Edmund S. Morgan
- Not Jewish John Gregory Dunne
- On the Edge of Catastrophe Neal Ascherson
- Passion Play Thomas Powers
- Poet Beyond Borders Fintan O’Toole
- Prophet in the Ruins Michael Ignatieff
- Remaking the Renaissance Anthony Grafton
- Screentime for Hitler J.S. Marcus
- Slight Revision Philip Roth, reply by John Updike
- Solzhenitsyn’s Refusal Olga Andreyev Carlisle
- Talking with Mao: An Exchange Henry A. Kissinger, reply by Jonathan D. Spence
- The Bright Side of the Plague Joel E. Cohen
- The Doctor’s Prescription Derek Jarrett
- The Four-Sided War Theodore H. Draper
- The Green Pimpernel Fiona MacCarthy
- The Man with Many Qualities J. M. Coetzee
- The New Age of the Book Robert Darnton
- The Puzzle of Central Europe Timothy Garton Ash
- The Threat to Proust Roger Shattuck
- The Wounded Constitution Ronald Dworkin
- The Writer and India V.S. Naipaul
- Titian: The Sacred and Profane Ingrid D. Rowland
- Under the Overcoat John Bayley
- Unreliable Source Christopher Benfey