January
- America, the War, and Israel: An Exchange Louise Weinberg, reply by Tony Judt
- Artship Lorrie Moore
- Dinosaur Crazy Tim Flannery
- Emily Dickinson’s Secret Lives Christopher Benfey
- Ghost Town James Fenton
- Goblin Market Louis Menand
- He Who Played the King Pico Iyer
- Lonely in Germany Louis Begley
- Manual for a ‘Raid’ Kanan Makiya and Hassan Mneimneh
- Occidentalism Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
- The Afghan Tragedy Pankaj Mishra
- The Brodsky Fellowship Maria Sozzani Brodsky
- The Center of the World Tim Judah
- The Devil and Giacometti Sanford Schwartz
- The Okinawa Nightmare George Feifer, reply by John Gregory Dunne
- The Trouble with the CIA Thomas Powers
February
- ‘Cowboys and Indians’ John Banville
- ‘Everything Is Yesterday’ Gore Vidal
- ‘The Deadlocked City’: An Exchange Shlomo Avineri, reply by Amos Elon
- Absolutely Fabulous Anne Hollander
- Anguish of a New York Liberal Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Barbarians at the Gate? Michael Ignatieff
- Berlin’s Jewish Museum Andrew Patner
- Birds Out of Time Tim Flannery
- Can Missile Defense Work? Steven Weinberg
- Emperor of Nostalgia J. M. Coetzee
- End of the Revolution John R. Searle
- Euro State of Mind Robert Darnton
- Horror Story Barry Werth, reply by Benjamin DeMott
- I Know Where I’m Going Charles Simic
- Jews in Poland Abraham Brumberg, reply by István Deák
- King of High & Low John Leonard
- Lumumba and the UN Ludo De Witte, reply by Brian Urquhart
- Mystery Man Margaret Atwood
- New Kind on the Block John Updike
- Rescuing Churchill Simon Schama
- Second Growth Revan Schendler
- The Betrayal of Capitalism Felix G. Rohatyn
- The Fastest Killer Edmund S. Morgan
- The Land of the Naked Cowboy James Traub
- The Military Tribunals on Trial Aryeh Neier
- The Modest Maestro Allan Keiler
- The Threat to Patriotism Ronald Dworkin
- The Woman Who Rode Away Gabriele Annan
- Through a Glass, Darkly Ingrid D. Rowland
- Wainscott Hollow—Looking West Charles Getchell
- Welch’s Juice Jeff Madrick
- Wise Man George M. Fredrickson
March
- ‘All the King’s Men’—A Case of Misreading? Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘Copenhagen’ Revisited Michael Frayn
- ‘Cowboys & Indians’ Floyd Abrams, reply by John Banville
- ‘Sneaked’ or ‘Snuck’? John R. Searle
- ‘The Future of Science’ Ruth Hubbard and Mark Wagner, reply by Steven Weinberg
- ‘The Great Book Massacre’: An Exchange Sarah A. Mikel and Shirley K. Baker, reply by Robert Darnton
- Bad for the Jews Owen Chadwick
- Burning at Both Ends Lorrie Moore
- Can AIDS Be Stopped? Helen Epstein and Lincoln Chen
- Enron: Seduction and Betrayal Jeff Madrick
- Funny Weather April Bernard
- Genocide and America Samantha Power
- Girls with Green Hair Michael Wood
- He’s Got Mail James Fallows
- In Goreyland John Russell
- Iris the Seeker Peter J. Conradi
- Jesuits in Disarray Garry Wills
- Keynes’s Last Stand Alan Ryan
- Russell’s ‘History’ Henry Hardy
- Science & Religion: No Ends in Sight Freeman Dyson
- Sketches in Clay James Fenton
- Steak and Potatoes Charles Rosen
- The Attack on Khartoum Eric Reeves, reply by Daniel Benjamin
- The Great Exile Derek Walcott
- The Mystery of Ignazio Silone William Weaver
- The Road to Minimalism Jack Flam
- The Story Behind the Towers Michael Tomasky
- The Vapour Trail James Fenton
- The World Trade Center: Before, During, & After Michael Tomasky
- Transit W.S. Merwin
- Translating Joseph Roth Michael Hofmann
- War Without Risk? James Chace
- What Bohr Remembered Thomas Powers
- When Not in Greece Daniel Mendelsohn
- Zen & the Art of Success Frederick C. Crews
April
- ‘A Very Strange Machine’ Gordon A. Craig
- ‘Copenhagen’: An Exchange Gerald Holton and Jonothan Logan, reply by Thomas Powers and Michael Frayn
- ‘Economic Sentiments’ George C. McElroy and Roberto Vivarelli, reply by Alan Ryan
- ‘The Illness of Ingrained Sorrow’ Harriet Turner, reply by Rosemary Dinnage
- A Family Affair Sam Tanenhaus
- American Jesuits Garry Wills and Rev. James Martin, S.J.
- Boccaccio and the Ladies Tim Parks
- China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier Perry Link
- Chomsky’s Revolution Sylvain Bromberger, reply by John R. Searle
- Correction The Editors
- Divine, Superfluous Beauty Charles Simic
- Ghosts Peter Holland
- Guns in the Family Fintan O’Toole
- Harlem’s Mystery Woman Darryl Pinckney
- How Are Women Doing? Andrew Hacker
- Images Behind the Wall Willibald Sauerländer
- In the Stream of Consciousness Thomas Nagel
- Inside the Clockwork Mark Lilla
- Is There a Solution? Anthony Lewis
- James’s Last Bow Jean Strouse
- Jigsaw Jennifer Schuessler
- Lyrics in the Swamp Brad Leithauser
- Nudes Without Desire Janet Malcolm
- O Albany! Thomas Flanagan
- On Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002) Seamus Heaney
- Party Line Robert M. Solow
- Rousseau and Revolution Jean Starobinski
- Shameful Neglect Brian Urquhart
- Surviving for Art Neal Ascherson
- The ‘Daily Me’ Cass R. Sunstein, reply by James Fallows
- The Blood Lust of Identity Ian Buruma
- The Dangers of Innocence John Lanchester
- The Ethical Culture School Rosalind Singer, reply by Jeremy Bernstein
- The Greek Way Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Hard Hitter John Bayley
- The House of the Prophet Kwame Anthony Appiah
- The Master of the Blur Sanford Schwartz
- The Performer Russell Baker
- The Poet’s Eye James Fenton
- The Star of The Hague Tim Judah
- The Surreal Life of Dora Maar Marilyn McCully
- The Torturers Among Us William F. Schulz
- The Trouble with the Tribunals Ronald Dworkin
- Too Many Choices? Howard Gardner
- Tyrants on the Take Christian Caryl
- Why Did the Vikings Vanish? Jared Diamond
May
- ‘Who Should Get In?’: An Exchange Richard Alba, James K. Galbraith, and Michael Kerlin, reply by Christopher Jencks
- A Fair Deal for the World Joseph E. Stiglitz
- A Light Black World Al Alvarez
- A New Darwinism? Tim Flannery
- A Star Is Born Caleb Crain
- Bruno Schulz’s Wall Paintings Aharon Apelfeld, reply by Gale Stokes, Padraic Kenney, John Connelly, and Brian Porter, et al.
- Cancer Cells Harold Pinter
- Copenhagen, cont’d. Paul Lawrence Rose, reply by Thomas Powers
- Cops and Robbers Margaret Atwood
- Fairy Tale in Reverse Claire Messud
- Farewell for Zbigniew Herbert Adam Zagajewski
- Getting Through Hilary Mantel
- Great Walls Anthony Grafton
- Happy Birthday! David Lodge
- In Search of Dostoevsky Joseph Frank
- In the Finger Zone Bernard Lewis
- In the Puddles of the Past John Banville
- Keeping the Sparks Alive Aileen Kelly
- Living on the Moon Jared Diamond
- Megaton Man Alan Lightman
- No Exit Amos Elon
- On the Brink of Oblivion Eamon Duffy
- Query Linda Hamalian
- Rambunctious American Democracy Gordon S. Wood
- Scandal Garry Wills
- Shock Absorbed James Fenton
- The Big R William H. McNeill
- The Burning of the Reichstag Kevin Kennedy
- The Hidden Cause of AIDS Helen Epstein
- The Impossible Blue Butterfly W.S. Merwin
- The Keys to Beethoven Michael Kimmelman
- The Mystery of Presence Charles Simic
- The Perils of Mrs. Eliot Robert Craft
- The Politics of Science Richard C. Lewontin
- The Road to Nowhere Tony Judt
- The Shock of the Old Graham Robb
- There Were Worse Places Jonathan Mirsky
- They Never Met Samantha Power
- Victory in Guatemala Francisco Goldman
- Who Killed Bogomil Trumilcik? Gabriele Annan
- Winter in the Abruzzi Natalia Ginzburg
- You Can Look It Up R. Veness, reply by Gore Vidal
June
- ‘I Am the Walrus’ Jerad Walters
- ‘Nuns As Artists’ Jeffrey Hamburger, reply by Willibald Sauerländer
- ‘Think Like a Demigod’ Roger Shattuck
- ‘Words and Rules’: An Exchange Steven Pinker, reply by John R. Searle
- A Bird’s-Eye View of Evolution Tim Flannery
- A Farewell to Arms John Gregory Dunne
- An Ardent Fallibilist Colin McGinn
- Big Money in the New Russia Robert Cottrell
- Bitter-Sweet Daniel Mendelsohn
- Camp David and After: An Exchange (1. An Interview with Ehud Barak) Benny Morris
- Camp David and After: An Exchange (2. A Reply to Ehud Barak) Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
- Camp David and After—Continued Benny Morris and Ehud Barak, reply by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
- Could the South Have Won? James M. McPherson
- Echoes of Rumi W.S. Merwin
- I Vant to Be Alone Pico Iyer
- It Was Anna’s Diary Susan Sontag
- Knowing and Not Knowing John Lanchester
- Lost in Cairo Caroline Moorehead
- Modern Art Groupie John Russell
- On the Big Two-Hearted River Larry McMurtry
- Pilgrim’s Progress Elizabeth Hardwick
- Pogo Roy Blount Jr., reply by Brad Leithauser
- Popcorn Park Geoffrey O’Brien
- Priests and Boys Garry Wills
- Surreal Slips Marilyn McCully
- The Full Monte Joseph Kerman
- The Great Room of Art Richard Dorment
- The Loaf Paul Muldoon
- The Rights Stuff Michael Ignatieff
- The Silone Case Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali, reply by William Weaver
- The Woman Who Did James Fenton
- Those Sexy Puritans Edmund S. Morgan
- True Confessions Jane Mayer
- Visions of Politics Alan Ryan
- What Garland Knew Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Which ‘All the King’s Men’? Noel Polk, reply by Joyce Carol Oates
- Who Rules Iran? Christopher de Bellaigue
- Zones Kenneth Koch
July
- ‘The Road to Nowhere’: An Exchange Shlomo Avineri, Doyne Dawson, and Irwin Wall, reply by Tony Judt
- After You’ve Gone Thomas R. Edwards
- Chomsky’s Revolution: An Exchange Noam Chomsky, reply by John R. Searle
- Did Milton Go to the Devil’s Party? John K. Leonard
- Giving the Russians Their Spinach Christian Caryl
- Leo’s Last Supper Andrew Butterfield
- Master Among the Ruins Michael Wood
- Palladio Forever! Witold Rybczynski
- Proust Regained André Aciman
- The Comedy Murder Case Jasper Griffin
- The Growing Nuclear Danger Steven Weinberg
- The King’s Trumpeter John Bayley
- The Power of the Super-Rich Jeff Madrick
- The Terrible Cost of Reconciliation David Brion Davis
- What Else Is News? Russell Baker
- Whoops! Sherwin B. Nuland
August
- A Protest Esther Allen and Marian Schwartz
- An Appeal Sari Nusseibeh
- For Goodness’ Sake Joyce Carol Oates
- Gardening with Attitude James Fenton
- Globalization: Stiglitz’s Case Benjamin M. Friedman
- Having the Last Laugh Darryl Pinckney
- He Took Manhattan David Hajdu
- Its Own Worst Enemy Tony Judt
- Making a Fetish of Mystery Ian Buruma
- Murder in India Pankaj Mishra
- O Beautiful for Spacious Skies John Updike
- Proverb Kenneth Koch
- Reflections on Art and Life Saul Steinberg
- The Bishops at Bay Garry Wills
- The Philadelphia Story Sanford Schwartz
September
- Administrating Misery Arthur Helton
- Alive & Kicking Reinhold Aman
- China’s New Rulers: The Path to Power Bruce Gilley and Andrew J. Nathan
- Corrections The Editors
- George Bush & the World Frances FitzGerald
- Great Scots! Gordon A. Craig
- Guilt Stalker Benjamin DeMott
- Heart of Darkness Sue Halpern
- In Iraqi Kurdistan Tim Judah
- Mordred John Ashbery
- On ‘The Unpossessed’ Elizabeth Hardwick
- On the Fatal Shore John Banville
- Orwell’s List Christopher Hitchens
- Priests and Boys: An Exchange Philip Jenkins, Judith Levine, David Hirsch, and Kenneth L. Woodward, reply by Garry Wills
- Some Advice for Poets James Fenton
- Taking Rights Seriously in Beijing Ronald Dworkin
- The Art of Living Diane Johnson
- The Crime of the Century István Deák
- The High Priestess of the Vernacular Darryl Pinckney
- The Hiker’s Gospel Bill McKibben
- The Last Humanist Clifford Geertz
- The Queen of Quinkdom Margaret Atwood
- The Secret Intelligence Wars Thomas Powers
- The Witch Hunters’ Crusade Anthony Grafton and Ingrid D. Rowland
- Wise Men Gordon S. Wood
- You Can’t Keep a Good Sonnet Down Charles Simic
October
- A Case of ‘Inverted Commas’ Harry Harootunian
- A Farewell to Politics Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
- A Soft Spot for Napoleon John Weightman
- Anatomy of a Murder Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- Brotherhood without Fatherhood Denis Donoghue
- China’s New Rulers: What They Want Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley
- Confessions of a Killer Alma Guillermoprieto
- Dante’s Hell Norman F. Cantor
- Heir of a Dark History J. M. Coetzee
- Hitler’s Pal Gordon A. Craig
- How Smelly Was the Palladian Villa? James Fenton
- In the Garment District Richard Dorment
- Is There a Case for Little Wars? Brian Urquhart
- Is the Universe a Computer? Steven Weinberg
- Laxness the Great Brad Leithauser
- Living on the Wind Tim Flannery
- Morning in America Pico Iyer
- Naipaul’s Book of the World Hilary Mantel
- On Mozart: An Interview with Alfred Brendel Martin Meyer, translated from the German by Richard Stokes
- Passage to Bombay Pico Iyer
- Queries Willard Spiegelman, John Summers, and Kevin Bazzana
- Rehearsal Lance Larsen
- Secrets of September 11 Thomas Powers
- Should We Adore Adorno? Charles Rosen
- Silone’s Mystery Daniel Bell, John Van Doren, Charles Van Doren, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, reply by William Weaver
- Sterne’s Great Game John Bayley
- Tales Told by the Computer Tim Parks
- The Floods in Prague Wendy W. Luers
- The Image Hunter Charles Simic
- The Long Voyage Home Lorrie Moore
- The New Age of Tyranny Mark Lilla
- The Non-Conformist Russell Baker
- The Spinoza Solution Stuart Hampshire
- The Two Oscar Wildes Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Wanderer Amos Elon
- Whose War Is It? Gordon A. Craig
November
- ‘Lost in Cairo’ Caroline Moorehead and Vincent Cochetel
- A Democratic Church? Garry Wills
- A Vanished World Keith Thomas
- Almost Forgotten Women Larry McMurtry
- An American Pastime David Levering Lewis
- Apocalypse Soon Alexander Stille
- At War with Stupidity Neal Ascherson
- Bad Trip Dan Jacobson
- Bombs in Bali Imogen Wall
- Bush and Iraq Anthony Lewis
- Critical Mass Explained Alan Lightman
- From New York to Baghdad Felix G. Rohatyn
- Has the Pope Been a Failure? Rod Dreher, reply by Garry Wills
- In Guantánamo Joseph Lelyveld
- Irving Howe Memorial Lecture Morris Dickstein
- Islamic Venice? Hugh Honour
- Leo’s ‘Last Supper’ Helen Vendler and Leo Steinberg, reply by Andrew Butterfield
- Looking for a Black Swan Colin McGinn
- Loving the Poor Brent D. Shaw
- Making It by Making It James Fenton
- Mighty Hermaphrodite Daniel Mendelsohn
- Music, Maestro, Please! Michael Kimmelman
- Nobs & Nabobs David Gilmour
- On the Frontier Timothy Garton Ash
- Out of the Mists Larry McMurtry
- Posillipo Karl Kirchwey
- Scratch a Russian John Bayley
- Suicide for the Empire Ian Buruma
- Surviving Gabriele Annan
- The Big Guy Marshall Frady
- The Modern Machiavelli Paul Kennedy
- The Mormon Murder Case Caroline Fraser
- The Prospero of the Senate Marshall Frady
- The Religious Success Story Jared Diamond
- The Torture of Algiers Adam Shatz
- Tomorrow the World James Chace
December
- ‘Complications’: An Exchange Mary Dilligan, reply by Sherwin B. Nuland
- ‘Secrets of September 11’ Russell Jack Smith and David E. Narrett, reply by Thomas Powers
- ‘The Fox’ of D.H. Lawrence Doris Lessing
- 2002 Mark Strand
- A Battle for Religion Mark Lilla
- A Phantom Triumph? Anthony Lewis
- Brazil: Lula’s Prospects Kenneth Maxwell
- Brief Encounter Gabriele Annan
- Byron: The Poetry of It All Anne Barton
- Cards of Identity Anita Desai
- Death in Moscow: The Aftermath Christian Caryl
- Don’t Take Our Raphael! James Fenton
- Edward Weston’s Women Janet Malcolm
- Geniuses Together Jennifer Homans
- Geometrical Creatures Jim Holt
- Good Hair Day Jill Nelson
- Gore Family Values Andrew Hacker
- High Fidelity Garry Wills
- In Praise of Amateurs Freeman Dyson
- Iraq: The Economic Consequences of War William D. Nordhaus
- Israelis & Palestinians: What Went Wrong? Amos Elon
- Jews and Catholics István Deák
- Knowing the Score Anthony Hecht
- Men in the Moon P. N. Furbank
- Mind Your Maniera Charles Hope
- Mission Possible? Michael Ignatieff
- Nature & the Art of Running Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- On the Road Larry McMurtry
- On the West Bank Ian Buruma
- Passengers with Heavy Loads Joseph Roth, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
- Portrait of the Artist Ian Buruma
- Professor Aghajari’s Case Hamid Dabashi and Arien Mack
- Query Mark Huessy
- Query Jay Grossman
- Relativity & Objectivity Felix Mühlhölzer, reply by Colin McGinn
- The Awkward Age Brad Leithauser
- The Cause that Called You Colm Tóibín
- The Circus of Max Beckmann Ian Buruma
- The Confidence Man Patrick Marnham
- The Cosimos Tim Parks
- The Cradle Will Rock Eamon Duffy
- The Magic Circle Gordon A. Craig
- The Prospect of War Brian Urquhart
- The Shrinking News Jerry Ceppos, reply by Robert G. Kaiser, Leonard Downie Jr., and Russell Baker
- Two Poems by Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell, introduction by Stephen Burt
- Unlocking the Cupboard Geoffrey O’Brien
- Up with Downtown Jason Epstein
- Vanishing Points John Terborgh
- War Games in the Senate Elizabeth Drew
- Waves Robin Robertson
- What Did the Decameron Do? Robert Hollander