- ‘The Day Was Hot and Still …’ Joan Didion
- ‘The Red Scare’ Michael Ybarra, reply by Sam Tanenhaus
- A New ‘Beowulf’ Seamus Heaney
- Always Time to Kill Jason Epstein
- Arboretum Louise Glück
- China in Cyberspace Ian Buruma
- Death of the Cowboy Larry McMurtry
- Degas’ Birds Theodore Reff, reply by James Fenton
- Dutch Treat James Fenton
- Erikson’s Enigma Arnold B. Come
- Exile’s Return Amos Elon
- Freud Under Analysis Colin McGinn
- Goodbye to All That Robert L. Herbert
- Irving Howe Memorial Lecture Morris Dickstein
- Just Say No Edmund S. Morgan
- Lives of a Poet Denis Donoghue
- Misfortune in Shanghai Jonathan Mirsky
- Mission Impossible Brian Urquhart
- Ménage à Trois Mark Lilla
- Not Basque Martin Filler
- Not an Ideal Husband Anne Barton
- Passage to Juneau Jonathan Raban
- Psychology for Teachers: An Exchange Gerald Needham and Francis Schrag, reply by Alison Gopnik
- Ten Years After Timothy Garton Ash
- The Advancement of Francis Bacon Quentin Skinner
- The Ballad of Federico García Lorca David Gilmour
- The Case of Arthur Conan Doyle Christopher Hitchens
- The Decline and Fall of Literature Andrew Delbanco
- The End of the Golden Age Gordon A. Craig
- The Eye of the Beholder Stuart Hampshire
- The Eyptian Gamble Shaul Bakhash
- The Myth of Myths Jasper Griffin
- The Tragicomic Dubliner John Banville
- The Treaty Betrayed Hans A. Bethe
- The Twisted Path to the Top Alan Ryan
- The Way to Numerical Heaven John Allen Paulos
- To a Comedian Richard Wilbur
- Virgil the Great Bernard Knox
- War at the Top Whitney Balliett
- Washington the Liberator Eric L. McKitrick