- Against the South African Grain J. M. Coetzee
- An Appeal to the ‘Fortune’ Conference in Shanghai Robert L. Bernstein and Fang Lizhi
- Cancer: What Do They Know? Daniel J. Kevles
- Donne and the Bomb Jeremy Bernstein
- Far from Babar Caroline Fraser
- Freedom and Its Discontents Theodore H. Draper
- Genius Con Brio Bernard Knox
- His Son the Art Dealer Richard Dorment
- How New Is the New Economy? Jeff Madrick
- Hurry Up Please It’s Time James Fallows
- John Berryman’s Flying Horse Anne Barton
- Leaving Palestine Edward W. Said
- Notes from Underground Lars-Erik Nelson
- Paying Back the West Václav Havel
- Persuading the Persuaded Edmund S. Morgan
- Please Fence Me In Alan Ryan
- Pragmatic Theater Tom Stoppard
- The Dalai Lama and the CIA Daniel Wikler, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
- The Greatest Might-Have-Been of All William H. McNeill
- The Jiang Zemin Mystery Orville Schell
- The Last of His Kind Pankaj Mishra
- The Singapore Difference Kishore Mahbubani, reply by Ian Buruma