January
- ‘A Designer Universe?’: An Exchange Edward T. Oakes, Steven Goldberg, and Anthony Hecht, reply by Steven Weinberg
- 1-Jan-65 Joseph Brodsky
- A Dying World John Terborgh
- Anatomy of a Murderer Charles Simic
- Clinton & His Enemies Lars-Erik Nelson
- Cruel and Usual Russell Baker
- Endgame John Banville
- Far from Chiapas Enrique Krauze
- Game Without End Fintan O’Toole
- Life Is Beautiful D.J. Enright
- Looking at a Snowdrop James Fenton
- Now Voyager Larry McMurtry
- On the Road Rosemary Dinnage
- Perils of Translation Tim Parks
- Portrait of the Artist as a Paradox Ernst Gombrich
- Sunday in the Park with Fred Andrew Delbanco
- Swordplay Richard Cohen
- Talk! Benedetta Craveri
- The Drama Inside the Concerto Charles Rosen
- The House of Mr. Naipaul Pankaj Mishra
- The Virtuous East Pillarisetti Sudhir, reply by Jasper Griffin
February
- ‘Exile’s Return’ Justus Reid Weiner, reply by Amos Elon
- ‘Freud Under Analysis’: An Exchange Mortimer Ostow, Marcia Cavell, and Allen Esterson, reply by Colin McGinn
- ‘My German Question’ Peter Gay
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Broadway Brad Leithauser
- After My Suicide Henry Allen
- Anarchy & Madness Timothy Garton Ash
- Brave New World P. N. Furbank
- C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) David Brion Davis
- Divine Killer Ian Buruma
- Free Spirit James Fenton
- Happenings Jonathan Galassi
- In the Locked Ward Tim Parks
- La Vagabonde Allan Massie
- Legacy Lars-Erik Nelson
- Life Itself Helen Vendler
- Lighting Out for the Territory Larry McMurtry
- Little House off the Highway Ian Frazier
- Looking the Devil in the Face Robert Darnton
- Made in Romania Norman Manea, translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller
- On ‘Hindoo Holiday’ Eliot Weinberger
- On Francis Haskell (1928–2000) Charles Hope
- Only a Guideline Fritz Stern, reply by Ernst Gombrich
- Playing the Piano David W. Ross and Carolyn Kunin, reply by Charles Rosen
- Putin’s War Sergei Kovalev
- Stompin’ at the Savoy Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Afterlife of Arthur Koestler Julian Barnes
- The Empire’s New Clothes David Gilmour
- The Flu of Flus William H. McNeill
- The Heart of the Matter John Bayley
- The Nowhere Nation Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- The Panic of Influence A.O. Scott
- The Suspended Moment Sanford Schwartz
- True Grit Malcolm Gladwell
- Waiting for Bobby Garry Wills
March
- ‘Time to Kill’ Antony Beevor, reply by Jason Epstein
- A Fine Detachment Louis Menand
- An Open Letter to President Khatami Leila Ahmed
- Auden’s Shakespeare James Fenton
- Death in Virginia William Styron
- Due Credit Norman Manea
- East Is West Ian Buruma
- Eyes Wide Open Michael Wood
- Far from Rome Elizabeth Hardwick
- Genius in Exile Richard Dorment
- High Rollers Al Alvarez
- I’ll Take Manhattan Joyce Carol Oates
- In Love with Leopardi Tim Parks
- It Happened at Elsinore John Bayley
- Jews and Blacks in America: An Exchange David Levering Lewis and David Brion Davis, reply by David Brion Davis
- Mr. Cogito. Ars Longa Zbigniew Herbert, translated from the Polish by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter
- O’Brian’s Great Voyage Christopher Hitchens
- On Borrowed Time Gabriele Annan
- On the First Day Eliot Weinberger
- Philosophy & Monica Lewinsky Ronald Dworkin
- Storm Over Jefferson Garry Wills
- Tale from the Vienna Woods Tony Judt
- The First Brodsky Fellowships Maria Sozzani Brodsky
- The Great Voyeur Henry Allen
- The Love Boat Russell Baker
- The Man Who Was Right Michael Ignatieff
- The Miracle Worker Joseph Kerman
- The Pope, the Nazis & the Jews István Deák
- The Secret Sharer Aileen Kelly
- The Uses of Hell Eva Hoffman
- The West Virginian Benjamin DeMott
- Through a Glass W.S. Merwin
- Tot Thought Jerome S. Bruner
- Welfare: The Cheapest Country Robert M. Solow
- Who’s Really Who Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan
April
- ‘An Affair of State’: An Exchange Richard Posner, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- ‘Mad Travelers’ Roland Littlewood, reply by Rosemary Dinnage
- ‘The Decline & Fall of Literature’: An Exchange Michael P. Clark, Bruce Robbins, Robert Oliphant, and Andrew Delbanco, reply by Andrew Delbanco
- ‘Ukraine Today’ Jack F. Matlock Jr.
- A Lamas’ Who’s Who Jonathan Mirsky
- A Rare Species John Banville
- A Wistful Master John Updike
- An Affair of Honor Gordon S. Wood
- Auden at Home James Fenton
- Auden’s Enchantment James Fenton
- Austria & Europe Luc Bondy
- Battle of the Bien-Pensant Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Colombia: Violence Without End? Alma Guillermoprieto
- Dancing on a Wobbly Deck Ian Buruma
- Going West Diane Johnson
- Goodbye to the Bison William H. McNeill
- Gorky’sPanels Richard Dorment
- In the Name of Humanity Brian Urquhart
- James Baldwin: The Risks of Love Darryl Pinckney
- K. 453 Karl Kirchwey
- Landscape Artist John Banville
- Morality & Arthur Koestler David Cesarani, reply by Julian Barnes
- Nearly a Coup Anthony Lewis
- Nobody’s Perfect Andrew O’Hagan
- Not an Ideal Husband Daniel Mendelsohn
- On Noel Annan (1916–2000) Jonathan Mirsky
- Our New War in Colombia Alma Guillermoprieto
- Out of This World Tatyana Tolstaya
- Overachiever Caroline Fraser
- Reconstructing the Colonel John Weightman
- The Art of the Cool Willibald Sauerländer
- The Golden Phonebook Jared Diamond
- The Man Who Was King David J. Garrow
- The Odd Women Lorrie Moore
- The Rattle of Pebbles Jason Epstein
- The Stalingrad Front Antony Beevor, reply by Jason Epstein
- The Threat of Biological Weapons M.F. Perutz
- The Truth as Masquerade Anne Barton
- To Psychoanalysis Kenneth Koch
- Two Poems Adam Zagajewski
- Who Lost Russia? George Soros
May
- ‘The King of the Cats’ John Russell
- ‘The Perfect Lady’ Joyce Carol Oates
- A Question of Ethics John P. Frank, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- A Tale of Two Countries Cathleen Schine
- Acquaintance of the Earth Bill McKibben
- All in the Family Robert Skidelsky
- An Autopsy of Dr. Osler Richard Horton
- Auden’s ‘Flippancy’ James Wood
- Beauty and the Beast in Burma Timothy Garton Ash
- Bloom’s Gift Louis Menand
- Buttons Zbigniew Herbert
- Chechnya: Mary Robinson’s Report Mary Robinson
- China’s Dirty Clean-Up Sophia Woodman
- Cookie Pioneers Larry McMurtry
- Creators of the Bomb Jeremy Bernstein
- Dreams of the Body P. N. Furbank
- Fantasia Lars-Erik Nelson
- Figures in a Landscape Hilary Mantel
- Forever Amber Tim Flannery
- Free Dr. Brovina! Marek Edelman and Jacek Kuron
- Honored Guest John Ashbery
- Indonesia: Starting Over Clifford Geertz
- Messages & Silence J. M. Coetzee
- Nobody’s Perfect Andrew O’Hagan
- Not-So-Great Expectations Julian Moynahan
- On Edward Gorey (1925–2000) Alison Lurie
- Passionate Mind Claudia Roth Pierpont
- Philosophy for a Messy World Mark Lilla
- Pushkin’s Shakespearean Lover John Bayley
- Slutsky & History Martin Malia, reply by Aileen Kelly
- Stalingrad, cont’d. Antony Beevor, reply by Jason Epstein
- Tea with Okakura Christopher Benfey
- The ‘Anglosphere’ Robert Conquest, reply by Michael Ignatieff
- The Children’s War Alma Guillermoprieto
- The Fabulous Yeats Boys Denis Donoghue
- The Game at Lead Bill Harlan, reply by Ian Frazier
- The Making of Mr. Putin Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
- The Man Who Would Be Good David Gilmour
- The Never-Ending War Jonathan Mirsky
- The Plot Thickens Thomas Powers
- The Unanswered Question Thomas Powers
- The Vatican Regrets Garry Wills
- Visions of Light Al Alvarez
June
- ‘A Vast Conspiracy’ Michael Isikoff
- ‘Justice Is Conflict’ Stuart Hampshire, reply by Mark Lilla
- ‘Lovely Ballerina’ S. Asherah Stern, reply by Alison Lurie
- ‘Taiwan Stands Up’ Jonathan Mirsky
- ‘The Darker Side’ George M. Fredrickson, reply by Conor Cruise O’Brien
- A Frowsty Fragrance Derek Walcott
- A Short History of Humanity William H. McNeill
- An Ax Murder Sergio Sarri
- An Endangered Species Joyce Carol Oates
- Arrested in Iran Hamid Dabashi and Arien Mack
- Artist with a Calling Sanford Schwartz
- Back to Nature Andrew Hacker
- Bizarre New World Jasper Griffin
- Born Again in Rome Ingrid D. Rowland
- Call Me Mister John Gregory Dunne
- Camping in Washington Garry Wills
- Castelives Girish Karnad, reply by Jasper Griffin
- Close to the Edge Gabriele Annan
- Conservative Rebel Hilary Mantel
- Criticism of Criticism Susan Gubar, reply by The Editors
- Crossroads in the Past John Ashbery
- Decline and Fall? Roger Shattuck
- Early American Get-Up-and-Go Gordon S. Wood
- Found Horizon Ian Buruma
- Gaiety Redeemed Brad Leithauser
- Her Story Luc Sante
- In Search of Bach Robert L. Marshall
- Inside the Gulag Anne Applebaum
- Melville in Love Elizabeth Hardwick
- Mrs. Eddy’s Voices Gillian Gill, reply by Caroline Fraser
- Our Fellow Animals Ian Hacking
- Paris: The Early Internet Robert Darnton
- Phantom Observations John Bayley
- Poor Papa John Leonard, reply by Thomas Flanagan
- Separate Beds James Fenton
- Sign Language Colin McGinn
- Some Thoughts on Sierra Leone Brian Urquhart
- The Churches & Capital Punishment Roger L. Shinn
- The Devil & Mr. Ruskin John D. Rosenberg
- The Goethe Case W. Daniel Wilson, reply by Gordon A. Craig
- The Hunter Tim Parks
- The Narco-State? Michael Massing
- The Pierce Connection Lars-Erik Nelson
- The Pope, the Nazis, and the Jews’ István Deák
- The Uses of Hell’: An Exchange Peter Novick, Tad Szulc, and Steven T. Katz, reply by Eva Hoffman
- The View from Damascus Sadik J. Al-Azm
- The Worst Place on Earth James Traub
- Under Siege Neal Ascherson
- Usage W.S. Merwin
- When in Rome Ingrid D. Rowland
- Where the Bison Were Robert P. McIntosh
- Writing about Koestler Michael Scammell
July
- ‘A Vast Conspiracy’ Jeffrey Toobin
- ‘The View from Damascus’ Moshe Ma’oz, Amos Elon, and Itmar Rabinovitch
- Back to Basics Edmund S. Morgan
- East and West: The Reach of Reason Amartya Sen
- Fascinatin’ Rhythm David Hajdu
- Goodbye to All That Antony Beevor
- Haunted by Salmon Joyce Carol Oates
- London’s New Left Bank James Fenton
- Strangers at Home István Deák
- The Geat of Geats Frank Kermode
- The Mystery of AIDS in South Africa Helen Epstein
- The New American Way of War Michael Ignatieff
- The Triumph of Marxism Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Wise Woman and the Whale John Leonard
- Tibet Disenchanted Ian Buruma
- United States v. Leonard Peltier Peter Matthiessen, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., William Styron, Rose Styron, and E.L. Doctorow
- Watch Out, Democrats! Lars-Erik Nelson
August
- ‘Nature Itself’ John Updike
- ‘The View from Damascus,’ cont’d. Sadik J. Al-Azm
- A Boy’s Life Russell Baker
- All Too Human Jeff Madrick
- Coupling John Banville
- Croatia Reborn Tim Judah
- Dickinson’s Civil War Dorothy Huff Oberhaus and Benjamin Lease, reply by Joyce Carol Oates
- Fatima: ‘The Third Secret’ Garry Wills
- In the Danger Zone Richard Horton
- Inventing the West Larry McMurtry
- My Krakow Adam Zagajewski
- My Way Alan Ryan
- Not Wholly Holy Gordon A. Craig
- On the Night Train Charles Simic
- Party Going Lars-Erik Nelson
- Scenes from the American Dream Henri Zerner and Charles Rosen
- Speaking in Tongues D.J. Enright
- The Brawls of Yesteryear Murray Kempton
- The Greatest! John Bayley
- The Tale of Two Housmans Daniel Mendelsohn
September
- ‘The Invention of Love’: An Exchange Tom Stoppard, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
- ‘The Never-Ending War’: An Exchange James G. Blight and David Chanoff, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
- A Finished Woman A.O. Scott
- A New Vision of Vision Israel Rosenfield
- A Scandal in Moscow Viktor Erofeyev
- Apart Robin Robertson
- Apocalypse Now J.S. Marcus
- Children at War Martin Macpherson, reply by John Ryle
- Death in Kashmir Pankaj Mishra
- How Not to Deal with Bullies Brian Urquhart
- Kosovo: Was It Worth It? Timothy Garton Ash
- Lord Trouble Christopher Hitchens
- Lost World Rosemary Dinnage
- Mad Genius Whitney Balliett
- Notes of a Son and Brother Benjamin DeMott
- Stairway to Heaven Bernard Knox
- Swissair 111, TWA 800, and Electromagnetic Interference Elaine Scarry
- The Henry James of Crime Luc Sante
- The Invented Man Jasper Griffin
- The Non-Conformist Tim Parks
- The Odds Against Barak Avishai Margalit
- The Shame of Political TV Mark Danner
- The Story of Everything Tony Judt
- Twin Peaks Gabriele Annan
October
- ‘A Vast Conspiracy’ Michael Isikoff, reply by Anthony Lewis
- ‘Serving the Word’ Vincent Crapanzano
- Are the Troubles Over? Fintan O’Toole
- Battle Hymn of the Republic Robert Stone
- Clinton & Colombia: The Privilege of Folly Mark Danner
- Dancing to His Own Tune John Updike
- Death on the Installment Plan John Weightman
- Duels in the Sunshine George Eisen, reply by István Deák
- Foreign Affair Pico Iyer
- Gore in the Balance Lars-Erik Nelson
- Gore vs. Bush: The Difference Benjamin M. Friedman
- Heisenberg in Copenhagen Paul Lawrence Rose, reply by Thomas Powers
- In Love with Guns Edmund S. Morgan
- Injustice in Austria István Deák, Tony Judt, Liliane Weissberg, Charles Maier, and Peter Pulzer, et al.
- Interviewing Eggers Benjamin DeMott
- Kashmir: The Unending War Pankaj Mishra
- Master of the Misbegotten Thomas Flanagan and Barbara Gelb
- Mbeki and AIDS in Africa: A Comment Paul Trewhela
- Mr. Bigsky Robert Cottrell
- Mr. Fix-It Ronald Steel
- On ‘The Invention of Love’: Another Exchange Tom Stoppard, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Paroxysms of Choice Howard Gardner
- Should We Pay the Debt? Robert M. Solow
- Slowing Down the Film Israel Rosenfield
- TWA 800 and Electromagnetic Interference: Work Already Completed and Work that Still Needs to be Done Elaine Scarry
- The Arts in Russia Under Stalin Isaiah Berlin
- The Best Men? Diane Johnson
- The Birth of a Nation Pankaj Mishra
- The Book that No One Knows John Ashbery
- The Desert Prince James Traub
- The Fall of EgyptAir 990 Elaine Scarry
- The Fatal Shore Joyce Carol Oates
- The Master Builders James Fenton
- The Other Revolution David Brion Davis
- The Pogrom in Limerick John Derbyshire
- Working for the Dictionary Charles Simic
November
- A Fine Life Eric Christiansen
- A Passage to Colombo John Bayley
- Beethoven’s Musical Characters Alfred Brendel
- Blitzkrieg in Georgia James M. McPherson
- Can Populism Be Popular? Nicholas Lemann
- Dancing with the Moon Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Did Roosevelt Know? David Kahn
- Dürer and Christ John Updike
- Epic-Making P. N. Furbank
- Fate & the Führer Gordon A. Craig
- From Milosz’s ABC’s Czeslaw Milosz
- Getting Better M.F. Perutz
- Honorable Man Garry Wills
- How Sick Is Modern Medicine? Richard Horton
- In the Primordial Soup Tim Flannery
- Internet Illusions James Fallows
- Justice for Willa Cather A.S. Byatt
- Making the Memorial Maya Lin
- Night Thoughts Mark Lilla
- Norman Rockwell Lives! Richard B. Woodward and Austin Briggs, reply by Henri Zerner
- On ‘Party Going’ Tim Parks
- Over the Rainbow Anthony Grafton
- Patios & Poolsides Lorrie Moore
- Pilgrim’s Progress Joyce Carol Oates
- President Mbeki’s Career Nadine Gordimer and Anthony Sampson, reply by Helen Epstein
- Pulpmaster Larry McMurtry
- Renoir the Irregular John Golding
- Sentenced to Reality Anthony Hecht
- Staring at the Medusa’s Head Hilary Mantel
- The Case Against Kids Andrew Hacker
- The Coming Revolution Jason Epstein
- The Cruelty of Memory Edward W. Said
- The Genius of Robert Walser J. M. Coetzee
- The Interesting One Thomas Powers
- The Last Harpoon Jonathan Raban
- The Last Revolution Timothy Garton Ash
- The Perils of Secrecy Lars-Erik Nelson
- The Russians Are Coming! Raymond Bonner
- The Shame of Medical Research David J. Rothman
- The Skeleton in the Closet George M. Fredrickson
- The Torrents of Wolfe Elizabeth Hardwick
- Tragicomic Soup Charles Simic
- Turncoats Gabriele Annan
- Un-American Activities Sam Tanenhaus
- Wagner & Politics Bernard Williams
- What’s Left of Marx? Robert Skidelsky
- Where Has Joe Gone? Russell Baker
- Witch Hunt in Egypt Max Rodenbeck
December
- ‘Freud’s Megalomania’ Israel Rosenfield
- An Open Letter to the President Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Peter Matthiessen, William Styron, Rose Styron, and Michael Massing, et al.
- Dog Spelled Backwards Dan Jacobson
- Extraordinary Commonplaces Robert Darnton
- Fitzgerald’s ‘Radiant World’ Thomas Flanagan
- Genius in Private Charles Rosen
- Golden Boy James Traub
- Great Days Clive James
- Hometown America’s Black Book Larry McMurtry
- Military-Industrial Man Lars-Erik Nelson
- Misunderstanding A.S. Byatt
- None but the Lonely Trout Prudence Crowther
- Passion in Lahore Anita Desai
- Scandal & the Road to Deadlock Mark Danner
- The Age of Schlesinger James Chace
- The Cheshire Cat’s DNA John Maynard Smith
- The Exhibition Follies James Fenton
- The Luck of the English Eamon Duffy
- The Neapolitan Finger Joan Acocella
- The Oddness of Oz Alison Lurie
- The Phantom Poll Booth Ronald Dworkin
- The White House & the World Tony Judt
- Valentine in Sepia Joyce Carol Oates
- Wrapping It Up Keith Thomas