- 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