January
- A Badly Flawed Election Ronald Dworkin
- A Chorus of Cruelty Tim Parks
- Disabled Lives: Who Cares? Martha C. Nussbaum
- Don’t Forget Keynes Stanley K. Sheinbaum, reply by Robert M. Solow
- Freud and the Interpreters Adolf Gruenbaum
- Lars Pete Hamill
- Lear, Far and Near John Updike
- Mind Painting John Leonard
- Mizener Did It First Rosemary M. Colt
- Myths of the Balkans Richard Crampton
- Night Vision Andrew Delbanco
- Riffs Darryl Pinckney
- Seven Years in the Life Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Marvels of Walter Benjamin J. M. Coetzee
- The Real Mrs. Eddy Gary A. Jones and Stephen Gottschalk, reply by Whitney Balliett
- Tragedy in Denver Daniel Mendelsohn
February
- ‘A Badly Flawed Election’: An Exchange Charles Fried, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- A Fair Shake John Havelock
- A Royal Mystery P. N. Furbank
- Affairs of State Paul Muldoon
- All in the Family Gordon S. Wood
- Back to the Future Sanford Schwartz
- Beyond the Fringe Darryl Pinckney
- Caught in the Curve Benjamin DeMott
- Could the French Have Won? Tony Judt
- Cri de Coeur John Leonard
- Farce & Philosophy Roger Shattuck
- Goodbye to Yugoslavia? Tim Judah
- Heisenberg in Copenhagen: An Exchange Jeremy Bernstein and Michael Frayn, reply by Thomas Powers
- In Memory of Lars James S. Doyle
- Intensive Care Charles Simic
- Joyce in Bloom John Banville
- Not Quite All That Jazz David Hajdu
- Rabbit Undone Paul Berman
- Remember Pearl Harbor Robert B. Stinnett, reply by David Kahn
- Schools: The Price of ‘Progress’ Alan Ryan
- Star Trek Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Canadian Connection M. Brook Taylor, reply by James M. McPherson
- The Double Life of W.E.B. Du Bois George M. Fredrickson
- The Election Mess George M. Fredrickson, Garry Wills, David Brion Davis, Sean Wilentz, and Todd Gitlin, et al.
- The First American Epic Larry McMurtry
- The Great Narayan Pankaj Mishra
- The Heroes of Kwangju James Fenton
- The Hunger Artist John Leonard
- The Land of Accidents John Lanchester
- The Oldest Beatle The Editors
- The Road to Illegitimacy Mark Danner
- The World Seen and Half-Seen Denis Donoghue
March
- ‘Catching a Pig on the Farm’ Helen Vendler
- ‘Death in Kashmir’: An Exchange Vivek Gumaste and Soma Kumar, reply by Pankaj Mishra
- A Passion for the Past Anthony Grafton
- All the Luck in the World Geoffrey O’Brien
- An Exchange on ‘Jazz’ Geoffrey C. Ward, Amram Ducovny, and Harris Green, reply by David Hajdu
- Balak the Dog Stuart A. Smith
- Breakdown Gabriele Annan
- Breaking Out Daniel Mendelsohn
- Bush’s First Strike Michael Ignatieff
- Corrections Larry McMurtry
- Corrections Darryl Pinckney
- Corrections The Editors
- Ferrata Errata Ingrid D. Rowland
- Germans, Jews, and Music Daniel Barenboim
- Leaving Nirvana Oliver Sacks
- Medical Morals: An Exchange Barry R. Bloom, reply by David J. Rothman
- Praying in Public William G. Keehn, reply by Joan Didion
- The Emperor’s Secrets Ian Buruma
- The Greatest Generation Gordon S. Wood
- The Last Puritan John Bayley
- The Monster We Know Hilary Mantel
- The Mysterious Miss Nightingale Helen Epstein
- The Possessed Viktor Erofeyev
- The Quest for Justice Aryeh Neier
- The Remains of Totalitarianism Elena Bonner
- The Remains of der Tag Neal Ascherson
- The Road Upward Paul Seabright
- The Road from Mandalay Pico Iyer
- The Story of a Room James Fenton
- The Unspoken Word Diane Johnson
- The Wild Colonial Boy John Banville
- The World on a String Robert Skidelsky
- To the Present Visitors W.S. Merwin
- Turkey’s Hidden Past Christopher de Bellaigue
- What Doctors Don’t Know James Le Fanu, reply by Richard Horton
- What If? M.F. Perutz
- Writers in a Cold Wind Jonathan Mirsky
- Your Teeth Are Showing Leo Steinberg, reply by Sanford Schwartz
April
- ‘Death with Dignity’ Greg Eddleston and Harold J. Bursztajn, reply by Richard Horton
- ‘Life Among the Anthros’ Terence S. Turner
- ‘The Reach of Reason’: An Exchange Rick Livingston
- A Tale of Two Cardinals Garry Wills
- Act Two Gabriele Annan
- Borges and His Ghosts Tim Parks
- But Could She Cook? Frank Kermode
- Death in Sudan Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Double Lives Andrew O’Hagan
- Equality of What? Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Excelsior! James Traub
- Founding Father Robert Cottrell
- From Abakainon to Zygris Jasper Griffin
- Grand Canyon Sweet Larry McMurtry
- Inside the Executive Brain Oliver Sacks
- Liberated Women David Coward
- Little War, Big Mess David Gilmour
- Memorandum for the Minister George F. Kennan
- Miraculous Mandarin Charles Simic
- Mirror Anthony Hecht
- Mrs. Roosevelt’s Revolution Brian Urquhart
- Odd Choices Earl L. Dachslager
- Random Jottings of an Old Man John Ashbery
- Shadows on the Danube J.S. Marcus
- Southern Comfort James M. McPherson
- Space Men Jack Flam
- The Big College Try Andrew Hacker
- The Great Book Massacre Robert Darnton
- The Prodigal Prodigy Al Alvarez
- The Socrates of Cambridge Louis Menand
- The X-Files Gordon A. Craig
- Time of Indifference Helen Epstein
- To My Father’s Houses W.S. Merwin
- Tough Cookie Brad Leithauser
- Tracking the Untrackable Hermione Lee
- Un-British Activities Robert Darnton
- Wounded by Un-Shrapnel James Fenton
- You Can’t Go Home Again Pankaj Mishra
May
- ‘A Lament in Three Voices’ Helen Vendler
- ‘Biohazard’ Jeanne Guillemin, reply by M.F. Perutz
- ‘Freedom to Write’ Frances FitzGerald
- ‘Mr. Fixit’ Bernard Sinsheimer, reply by Ronald Steel
- ‘The Shame of Medical Research’: An Exchange John F. Murray M.D., reply by David J. Rothman
- ‘Therefore I Print’ John Updike
- A Betting Man Brad Leithauser
- A Friend, a Booke, and a Garden James Fenton
- Bad Guy Number One Christopher Hitchens
- Bleak House James Traub
- Camera Work Sanford Schwartz
- Can Science Explain Everything? Anything? Steven Weinberg
- Dreaming of Mangoes Pankaj Mishra
- Florence Nightingale: An Exchange Hugh Small, Barbara Montgomery Dossey, and Lynn McDonald, reply by Helen Epstein
- Greater Albania? Tim Judah
- He Had His Ups and Downs Stuart Hampshire
- Heroes and Victims István Deák
- How Flemish Is It? Daniel F. Tritter, reply by Tony Judt
- In the Radical Nursery Jennifer Schuessler
- Liberating a Masterpiece Bernard Knox
- Live and Let Live Alan Ryan
- Mock Argument Brad Leithauser
- Molière Imaginaire John Weightman
- More Teeth Colin Jones
- Mr. Right Russell Baker
- On the Road Pico Iyer
- Pearl Harbor: An Exchange Gore Vidal, reply by Ian Buruma
- Russia’s Free Press Withers Away Masha Lipman
- Shock Treatment Gabriele Annan
- Thalidomide Comes Back Richard Horton
- The Charms of Property Jeff Madrick
- The European Orchestra Timothy Garton Ash
- The Foster Father Elizabeth Hardwick
- The Group Alan Ryan
- The Middle East: Snakes & Ladders Avishai Margalit
- The Price of Honor Edmund S. Morgan
- The Road to Babel Ian Buruma
- The Thinking Man’s Comedy Charles Simic
- Tocqueville’s Lesson Gordon S. Wood
- Un-Chinese Activities Jonathan Mirsky
- Wagner & Politics Robert W. Gutman, reply by Bernard Williams
- What Happened to the Hippopotamus’s Wife? John Bayley
- Women in Prison William F. Schulz
June
- City Lights Witold Rybczynski
- Double Take Daniel Mendelsohn
- Genes in the Food! Richard C. Lewontin
- Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace Stephen Kinzer
- In Jerusalem Susan Sontag
- In the American Grain Gordon S. Wood
- In the Pit of History Neal Ascherson
- Justice to J.D. Salinger Janet Malcolm
- Making Way for Berlusconi Alexander Stille
- Nabokov on the Wing Michael Wood
- Notes from Underground Thomas Powers
- On Jérôme Lindon, 1926–2001 Richard Seaver
- Sartre Resartus William Empson
- Spirits on Canvas Robert L. Herbert
- Springtime for Hegel Anthony Quinton
- The Dramaturgy of Death Garry Wills
- The Great Sultan Thomas R. Edwards
- The Imaginary Builder John Updike
- The Spirit of the Spirit David Hajdu
- The Wind Done Gone Joyce Carol Oates
- Within a Budding Grove Charles Rosen
July
- ‘Good Voices Are Rare’ James Fenton
- ‘Skeleton in the Closet’ Jeffrey M. Dickemann
- ‘The French Difference’: An Exchange Frederic Bozo, reply by Tony Judt
- ‘The Sick Man of Europe’ Christopher de Bellaigue
- A Free Press in Russia? Boris Jordan, reply by Masha Lipman
- A Letter from Dr. Kevorkian Mike Wallace
- A Missing ‘S’ John Updike
- A New Vision of Liberty Alan Ryan
- AIDS: The Lesson of Uganda Helen Epstein
- After the Genome, What Then? Richard C. Lewontin
- Art Among the Ruins Frank Kermode
- Bronze Beauties Andrew Butterfield
- Celebrities Elizabeth Hardwick
- Chains of Command Michael Ignatieff
- Country Without Heroes Stephen Kinzer
- Daphne in Mourning Melissa Green
- Escape! Gabriele Annan
- Etruscan Secrets Ingrid D. Rowland
- Frequent Fliers Brad Leithauser
- In the Midst of Losses J. M. Coetzee
- Liaisons Dangereuses John Leonard
- Mr. Fixit Jeff Madrick
- Reading: The Digital Future Jason Epstein
- Scenes from a Marriage Amos Elon
- SlaveryWhite, Black, Muslim, Christian David Brion Davis
- Some Like It Hot Bill McKibben
- That Elusive Something Charles Simic
- The Devil’s Playground Hilary Mantel
- The Japanese Berlusconi? Ian Buruma
- The Japanese Malaise Ian Buruma
- The Last French Saint Patrice Higonnet
- Updated on the Web Charles Dunlop
- Was Jason a Hero? Hayden N. Pelliccia
August
- Bayreuth Blues Joseph Kerman
- Bush’s Weird Tax Cut Elizabeth Drew
- Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
- Hawthorne Down on the Farm John Updike
- Ice Capades Al Alvarez
- Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush Colm Tóibín
- Lost Children: An Exchange Nina Bernstein, reply by James Traub
- Love on a Laptop John Lanchester
- Massacres of the Armenians James R. Russell
- On ‘The Radiance of the King’ Toni Morrison
- The Last ‘Last Supper’ Charles Hope
- The Muse of Hartford James Fenton
- The Plagues Are Flying Richard Horton
- The Putin Put-On Sergei Kovalev
- The Underduckling Alison Lurie
- Very Special Effects Geoffrey O’Brien
- What Makes the World Go Round? Robert Skidelsky
- Witness to Executions Sylvie Kauffmann
- Zuni Tunes Larry McMurtry
September
- ‘A Very Wide and Deep Dissection’ Sherwin B. Nuland
- ‘Neighbors’: An Exchange Helen Fein and Jurek Krzystek, reply by István Deák
- ‘The Many-Headed Hydra’: An Exchange Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, reply by David Brion Davis
- An Experiment in Darkness Andrew Delbanco
- Arrested in China Kang Zhengguo, translated from the Chinese by Perry Link
- Boy Wonder Daniel Mendelsohn
- Camp David: An Exchange Dennis Ross and Gidi Grinstein, reply by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
- Continental Choo-Choo William H. McNeill
- Death of a Champion Charles Sprawson
- Dog Days Michael Wood
- Expressions of the Age James Fenton
- Heisenberg’s Visit: An Exchange Jeremy Bernstein, reply by Thomas Powers
- Keeping Germany Fat Gordon A. Craig
- Living for the Future Stuart Hampshire
- Malcolm X’s Brother James Traub
- Nuclear Fission John Leonard
- On ‘Sleepless Nights’ Geoffrey O’Brien
- On Eudora Welty (1909–2001) Hermione Lee
- Our Man in Honduras Stephen Kinzer
- Out of Step with the World Russell Baker
- Paradise Lost Charles Simic
- Sacagawea’s Nickname Larry McMurtry
- Settling Scores Avishai Margalit
- The Age of Giants John Terborgh
- The Fall of Mr. Toad Ian Buruma
- The Lion of Florence Joseph Connors
- The Lure of Syracuse Mark Lilla
- The Sporting Life Esther I. Wilder and Estep Nagy, reply by Andrew Hacker
- The Truth about Wallenberg Amy Knight
- Triumph of an Artist Richard Holmes
- What Science Can Explain David Lowenthal and Rabbi Everett Gendler, reply by Steven Weinberg
October
- ‘A Modern Socrates’ Keith Thomas
- ‘Genes in the Food’: An Exchange M.F. Perutz, Colleen Fuller, and Erik Lichtenberg, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- ‘Scare Tactics’ Daniel P. Jones, reply by Robert Darnton
- A History of Horror Anne Applebaum
- An Exchange on John Negroponte Shep Lowman, Alfred R. Barr, and Theodore S. Wilkinson, reply by Stephen Kinzer
- An Urgent Matter Alan Sokal and Frederick C. Crews
- Berlusconi’s Way Tim Parks
- Big Daddy Ronald Steel
- China’s Assault on the Environment Jonathan Mirsky
- College: The End of the Golden Age Louis Menand
- Correction Andrew Butterfield
- Face to Face with Seurat John Russell
- Fathers and Sons John Banville
- First Love Oliver Sacks
- Harold Pinter’s Celebration Daniel Mendelsohn
- Judgment Day James Traub
- Landscape Architect Paul Berman
- Mrs. India Pankaj Mishra
- Notes on Prejudice Isaiah Berlin
- Pretty in the Sunlight Caroline Fraser
- Puppet Show John Leonard
- Russia: Was There a Better Way? Robert Cottrell
- Saving Us from Darwin Frederick C. Crews
- Saving Us from Darwin, Part II Frederick C. Crews
- The Crack-Up Rosemary Dinnage
- The Deadlocked City Amos Elon
- The Man Who Set the Clock Back Stephen Jay Gould
- The Muslims of Tibet Jamyang Norbu, reply by Ian Buruma
- The Terror Philip C. Wilcox Jr.
- The Tragedy of Lumumba Brian Urquhart
- The Unknown Edith Wharton Hermione Lee
- The Visit Clifford Geertz
- Treasure Box Anthony Hecht
- Unlikely Hero Andrew O’Hagan
- Witness to Fascism Peter Gay
November
- ‘Facing Up to Things’ Stanley Crouch, reply by Richard L. Garwin
- ‘Neighbors’ Abraham Brumberg, reply by István Deák
- ‘Saving Us from Darwin’: An Exchange Roger Shattuck, Alvin Plantinga, Benjamin Kissin, and Charles Gross, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- ‘The Road to Babel’ Ives Goddard
- A Court for Terrorists Aryeh Neier
- A German Requiem Amos Elon
- A Past Recaptured Hilary Mantel
- Afghanistan: The Moving Target William Pfaff
- America and the War Tony Judt
- Artful Dodger István Deák
- Beautiful Objects James Fenton
- Before the Deluge Hilary Mantel
- Berlin: The Lost Opportunity Martin Filler
- Early Feminists for Life Frederick J. Augustyn Jr.
- Founding Father Gordon A. Craig
- Fresh Oysters John Bayley
- Ghost Story Gabriele Annan
- Growing Up Among the Elements M.F. Perutz
- Hitchcock: The Hidden Power Geoffrey O’Brien
- In Quest of the Historical Jesus E.P. Sanders
- In the Promised Land Aileen Kelly
- Is There a Good Terrorist? Timothy Garton Ash
- Lenin and the ‘Radiant Future’ Martin Malia
- Life on the Missouri Larry McMurtry
- Long-Distance Runner Robert Gottlieb
- Lost New York Anthony Grafton
- Love in Hell Bernard Knox
- Not Bisexual Peter D’Epiro, reply by Bernard Knox
- Not So Needlessly Guy Richards
- Nuclear Power: An Exchange Kevin Cahill, reply by Bill McKibben
- Odd Man Out Timothy Garton Ash
- On ‘The Plague’ Tony Judt
- On the Consequences of Terrorist Acts in the Us Russian Human Rights Organizations
- On the War Stanley Hoffmann
- Overlapping Russians Thomas A. DiMaggio, reply by Robert Cottrell
- Philosophy for Winners M.F. Burnyeat
- Romania: Bottom of the Heap Tony Judt
- Sophistry & the Settlers David Matas and Avishai Margalit
- The Anger of the Damned Orhan Pamuk, translated by Mary Isin
- The Art of Malice P. N. Furbank
- The Black American Tragedy Darryl Pinckney
- The Future of Science, and the Universe Steven Weinberg
- The Good Loser Eric L. McKitrick
- The Group Anne Barton
- The Irving Howe Lecture Morris Dickstein
- The Labyrinth of Arthur Evans Richard Jenkyns
- The Making of Afghanistan Pankaj Mishra
- The Many Threats of Terror Richard L. Garwin
- The Nervous Republic Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Nestor of the Rockies Thomas Powers
- The Perils of Pakistan Christopher de Bellaigue
- The Pleasure of Iris Murdoch Stuart Hampshire
- The Razor’s Edge J. M. Coetzee
- The Reader Strikes Back John Gross
- The Thing Itself John Updike
- The Unkindest Cut Jasper Griffin
- To Be a Pilgrim Sanford Schwartz
- Wandering Minstrel Michael Kimmelman
- War in the Dark Tim Judah
- Western Star Thomas Flanagan
- When the Era Was an Era Alastair Reid
- Who Should Get In? Christopher Jencks
- With the Northern Alliance Tim Judah
- Wrong Notes The Editors
December
- ‘The War on Terror’ Tony Judt
- A Failure of Intelligence? Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
- A World Gone Up in Smoke Charles Simic
- An Anarchist’s Art Robert L. Herbert
- An Honest Description of Myself with a Glass of Whiskey at An Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis Czeslaw Milosz
- Another Country Joseph Lelyveld
- Bioterror: What Can Be Done? Matthew Meselson
- Dupe of History J. M. Coetzee
- E.H. Gombrich (1909–2001) Charles Hope
- Europe at War Timothy Garton Ash
- Forget Czeslaw Milosz
- From Florence to Las Vegas James Fenton
- Golden Notebooks Brad Leithauser
- In Conquered Kabul Tim Judah
- Inside the Whale Jonathan Mirsky
- John Ford’s West Thomas Flanagan
- Lenin & ‘The Radiant Future’ Albert L. Weeks and George Feifer, reply by Martin Malia
- Mad About the Book Larry McMurtry
- Mean Streets Luc Sante
- Racing with the Moon Gordon A. Craig
- The Conservation of Catastrophe William H. McNeill
- The Future of Music Charles Rosen
- The Hardest War John Gregory Dunne
- The Luck of Letty Fox Tim Parks
- The Tragedy of Lumumba: An Exchange Ludo De Witte and Colin Legum, reply by Brian Urquhart
- Who Should Get In? Part II Christopher Jencks