January
- ‘Castle of the Imagination’ Margaret Atwood
- ‘Could the French Have Won?’ Felix Oppenheim and James O. Goldsborough, reply by Tony Judt
- ‘Is the Universe a Computer?’ Harvey Shepard, reply by Steven Weinberg
- ‘The Loneliness of the Supreme Leader’ Christopher de Bellaigue
- ‘The Water Hose Is on Fire’ Charles Simic
- Apocalypse When? Norman Rush
- Bugs Without Borders Helen Epstein
- Divide and Conquer John Golding
- Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History Joan Didion
- Multicultural Correctness Ralph P. Locke, reply by Charles Rosen
- Novel of the Year Daniel Mendelsohn
- Partners for War Henry Siegman
- Rudy Rules! Joseph Lelyveld
- Russia’s New Vigilantes Jamey Gambrell
- Rwanda: The Two Faces of Justice Samantha Power
- The Power of Positive Thinking Alan Ryan
- The Suicide Bombers Avishai Margalit
- Thus Spake Henry Russell Baker
- Walter’s Delia Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky
February
- ‘A Lone Left Thing’ John Updike
- ‘Apocalypse Soon’: An Exchange Antonio Negri, reply by Alexander Stille
- ‘Positive Thinking’ Martin Beck Matustik, reply by Alan Ryan
- A Confederate Guerrilla James M. McPherson
- A Visit to North Korea Suki Kim
- Adoring Adorno Larson Powell and Thomas Baumeister, reply by Charles Rosen
- Anti-Europeanism in America Timothy Garton Ash
- Beethoven the Unruly Joseph Kerman
- Call Me Mister Alan Ryan
- China’s Psychiatric Terror Jonathan Mirsky
- Conspiracy of Silence Charles Simic
- Creating the Revolution Gordon S. Wood
- Darwinian Storytelling H. Allen Orr
- Haunted by the Russian Devil John Bayley
- Hello, Dolly! Jennifer Schuessler
- In Memoriam Andrew Delbanco
- Iraq: An Alternative to War The Editors of Newsday
- Kashmir: One Cheer for Democracy Pankaj Mishra
- Noble Shadow W.S. Merwin
- On the West Wing Anthony Lewis
- Schoenberg’s Warning E. Randol Schoenberg
- Statement for Peace John Ashbery, Alison Lurie, Derek Walcott, Charles Simic, and Richard Wilbur, et al.
- Sweet Persuasions of the Dark J. M. Coetzee
- The Bad Boy of Athens Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Future Needs Us! Freeman Dyson
- The Romantic Pugilist Richard Holmes
- The Strange Case of Dr. B. Robert Gottlieb
- The Taming of a Terrorist Fintan O’Toole
- The Tiny Grandeur of Max Beerbohm Sanford Schwartz
- Tsvetaeva: The Tragic Life Charles Simic
- Turgenev’s Banana James Fenton
March
- ‘Don’t Take Our Raphael!’ J. Patrice Marandel, reply by James Fenton
- Art Under Siege Robert L. Herbert
- Bush’s Tax Plan—The Dangers Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Customs of the Country Caroline Fraser
- Don Quixote at Eighty John Leonard
- Gays and Genes Andrew Hacker
- Geniuses Together John Russell
- Girls & Guns Hilton Als
- Haiti’s Betrayal Peter Dailey
- Haiti: The Fall of the House of Aristide Peter Dailey
- Heroes of History Keith Thomas
- Looking for Trouble in China John Lanchester
- Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf Daniel Mendelsohn
- On ‘Fixed Ideas’ Since September 11 Frank Rich
- On Henry Adams’s ‘Democracy’ Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Only in America Norman Mailer
- Putting the Show Together Larry McMurtry
- Query Martin Duberman
- Sleep Talk Dana Goodyear
- The Case for Puccini Philip Gossett
- The Gentleman Scientist Timothy Ferris
- The Greatest Relief Mission of All Orlando Figes
- The Man, or the Tiger? Pankaj Mishra
- The Mormon Murder Case Roger Shattuck, reply by Caroline Fraser
- The Mystery of Growth Robert Skidelsky
- The Right Way Michael Walzer
- The Secret of Methuselah Grove Tim Flannery
- The Two Dostoevskys Aileen Kelly
- The Way We Live Now Tony Judt
- The Wrong War Avishai Margalit
- Twin Peaks Jack Flam
- Waiting for the War Tim Judah
- War and Its Consequences Thomas Powers
- You Must Remember This Kwame Anthony Appiah
April
- A Life Worth Living John Gregory Dunne
- A Very Popular Penalty Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan
- America and the World Tony Judt
- Americans Abroad Michael Ignatieff
- By George John Banville
- Correction Andrew Hacker
- Escape Artist Darryl Pinckney
- First Reported The Editors
- Goodbye to Berlin Neal Ascherson
- His Master’s Voice Daniel J. Kevles
- Holy Hysteria Julian Barnes
- Iraq: A Letter of Resignation Brady Kiesling
- Is Puerto Rico a Colony? Juan M. Garcia-Passalacqua, reply by James Chace
- Isn’t It the Truth? Colin McGinn
- On the Front Lines Tim Judah
- Portrait of a Princess Gabriele Annan
- Query Sandra Spanier
- Spain and the Communists Raymond Carr
- Squall Line at Sixty-Five Walt McDonald
- The Eyes of Leonardo Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Genius of the Family Sanford Schwartz
- The Jewel of Africa Doris Lessing
- The Shogun’s Favorite Brit Jonathan D. Spence
- Vanishing Cultures Glenn Shepard Jr. and Douglas W. Yu, reply by John Terborgh
- Victoria’s Secrets John D. Rosenberg
- Who Was Jesus? E.P. Sanders
- Wise Survivors Amos Elon
- Wonderful Life Paul Wilson
- You’ve Disappeared from the Screen James Fenton
May
- ‘The Blank Slate’: An Exchange Steven Pinker, reply by H. Allen Orr
- ‘The Eyes of Leonardo’ Ingrid D. Rowland
- ‘Welcome to al-Sadr City!’ Tim Judah
- A Comedy of Colors Jim Holt
- A Letter from Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Starobinski, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
- A New Victorian James Fenton
- A Nice Little Visit Cathleen Schine
- An Unsentimental Education Amos Elon
- Animal Liberation at 30 Peter Singer
- Anti-Americans Abroad Tony Judt
- Archives of Horror Charles Simic
- Aristide’s Haiti: An Exchange Robert Fatton Jr. and Irwin P. Stotzky, reply by Peter Dailey
- Athens in Wartime Brady Kiesling
- Battleground Zero Michael Tomasky
- Catching the Conquerors David Brion Davis
- Correction The Editors
- Death in Baghdad Tim Judah
- Desire and Dread Joyce Carol Oates
- Escape from History Lorin Stein
- Evangelists for Kids Sue Halpern
- From ‘All Day Permanent Red: the First Battle Scenes of Homer’s Iliad Rewritten’ Christopher Logue
- How the Chinese Spread SARS Jonathan Mirsky
- In Clinton’s Court Joseph Lelyveld
- Keeping Busy John Banville
- L’Homme Nikita Robert Cottrell
- Leviathan Jason Epstein
- Mad at the Medicis Tim Parks
- Making It New Al Alvarez
- Omission of an Exception Adam Shatz
- Pioneer Ian Buruma
- Query Carl E. Meacham
- Query Andrea Siegel
- Revolution from Above Ian Buruma
- Science and Simplicity Richard C. Lewontin
- Talking All the Way Gordon A. Craig
- That Old Black Magic Jasper Griffin
- The Court and the University Ronald Dworkin
- The Democratic Autocrat Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- The Enforcer Elizabeth Drew
- The Fall of Baghdad Tim Judah
- The Heresies of Bibliography Robert Darnton
- The Horror Is Seductive John Gregory Dunne
- The Instinct Artist Sanford Schwartz
- The New Newsspeak Russell Smith
- The Perfect Secretary Larry McMurtry
- The Rights Stuff Brian Urquhart
- The Unseen War Michael Massing
- The Wild Women of Greece Bernard Knox
- Visiting North Korea Rev. S. Michael Hahm, reply by Suki Kim
- What a World! Freeman Dyson
- Window on Russia Christian Caryl
- Wölfli’s Empire Sanford Schwartz
June
- ‘The Clinton Wars’: A Correction Joseph Lelyveld
- ‘Their Noon, Their Midnight…’ P. N. Furbank
- America Goes Backward Stanley Hoffmann
- An American Family Russell Baker
- Arguing Against Ice Cream Margaret Atwood
- AsiaWorld Ian Buruma
- Debt and Democracy Gordon S. Wood
- Experience’s Ghosts Michael Wood
- Flying for Poland Robert P. Pula, reply by John Bayley
- Is Biology Messy? Evelyn Fox Keller, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- Leaves C.K. Williams
- Logic Is Beautiful John Updike
- New Ways to Kill Your Father Colm Tóibín
- Piano Portraits Michael Kimmelman
- Reconstructing Hell Orlando Figes
- Revenge Tragedy Anita Desai
- The Big E Mark Lilla
- The Neocons in Power Elizabeth Drew
- The Way to the Middle Way Pankaj Mishra
- Triumph at Heart’s Content Jean Strouse
- Victims J. M. Coetzee
- Which Way to Mecca? Clifford Geertz
- Who Came First? Tim Flannery
July
- ‘The Clinton Wars’: An Exchange Sidney Blumenthal, reply by Joseph Lelyveld
- A Lost World Darryl Pinckney
- A New Newton Freeman Dyson
- AIDS in South Africa: The Invisible Cure Helen Epstein
- After the Fall Daniel Mendelsohn
- Algeria’s Failed Revolution Adam Shatz
- Among the Savages Elizabeth Hardwick
- At Lady Ottoline’s Virginia Woolf
- Beethoven Beyond Classicism Lewis Lockwood
- Bohemia in Baghdad Max Rodenbeck
- Capturing Character Andrew Butterfield
- Downfall in Nicaragua Stephen Kinzer
- God and the Critic Jennifer Schuessler
- God’s Houses Part II Alison Lurie
- Mysteries of Growth Robert M. Solow
- On Leaving a Chinese Prison Jiang Qisheng, translated from the Chinese by Perry Link
- One Nation Under a Groove Luc Sante
- Piano Portrait Alfred Brendel
- Reproduction Mark Ford
- Secret Geometry John Banville
- TR and the Road Not Taken James Chace
- The Cambodia Obsession James Fenton
- The Death of Djindjic Misha Glenny
- The Don of Dons Larry McMurtry
- The Map and the Fence Edward R.F. Sheehan
- The Shiites Under Occupation Christopher de Bellaigue
- The White Man Unburdened Norman Mailer
- The Wonder of Irishness Andrew O’Hagan
- The Worst of the Terror Anne Applebaum
- Which Way to Mecca? Part II Clifford Geertz
- You Can’t Go Home Again? Geoffrey O’Brien
August
- ‘In a Mist’ Whitney Balliett
- ‘The Hunting of the President’ Gene Lyons
- A Letter from Copenhagen Thomas Powers
- A Very Grand Girl Benedetta Craveri
- Bush & Terror: An Exchange with Norman Mailer Ronald Tiersky, reply by Norman Mailer
- Cold Comfort Gabriele Annan
- Comics for Grown-Ups David Hajdu
- Correction Darryl Pinckney
- Dreaming of Corsica Jeremy Bernstein
- From Heaven to Arcadia Ingrid D. Rowland
- Goodbye, William! Richard Cohen
- In Search of Sappho Daniel Mendelsohn
- Lightning Rod Garry Wills
- Measuring the Sea Cyril Galvin, reply by Freeman Dyson
- Saved? Andrew Hacker
- The Court & the University: An Exchange Stanley Rothman, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- The Occupation Max Rodenbeck
- The Return of Robert Lowell James Fenton
- Three Men in a Boat Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
- What’s Not in Your Genes H. Allen Orr
September
- A Tale of Two Iliads Christopher Benfey
- Always in Exile John Golding
- Appointment with O’Hara Larry McMurtry
- At Arm’s Length Mark Ford
- Buried Between the Rivers Timothy Potts
- Disappearing Christians William Dalrymple
- Do Not Pass Go Jerome S. Bruner
- Europe’s Apes and Us Tim Flannery
- Helmet Seamus Heaney
- Iraq: The New War Mark Danner
- Missing Person Fintan O’Toole
- On John Schlesinger (1926–2003) Ian Buruma
- Only in America Gordon S. Wood
- Orwell’s List Timothy Garton Ash
- Our Thirsty Future Bill McKibben
- Poetry in Unlikely Places Charles Simic
- Private Foundations: The Trick Lewis B. Cullman
- Radical and Rich Adrian Lyttelton
- Robert Lowell: An Exchange Jonathan Raban, Edwin Frank, and Frank Bidart, reply by James Fenton
- Strange News Hilary Mantel
- Stranger in Hell István Deák
- The Fighter Tim Parks
- The Iran Conspiracy H.D.S. Greenway
October
- ‘A New Newton’? Mordechai Feingold
- ‘Living History’ Alvin Rosenfeld, reply by Garry Wills
- ‘Living History’ Betsy Nicoletti, reply by Garry Wills
- ‘Prison Mania’ Jerome S. Bruner
- After Strange Gods Avishai Margalit
- Among the Creatures Sean O’Brien
- Apollo’s Heels Alan Rudrum
- Awakening J. M. Coetzee
- Big Daddy Larry McMurtry
- Blair in Trouble James Fenton
- Could He Have Stopped Hitler? Amos Elon
- Equatorial Triptych Brad Leithauser
- Eyeless in Iraq Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Found in Translation Aaron H. Esman
- Hustling Elvis David Hajdu
- In Search of Russia Orlando Figes
- Iraq: What Went Wrong General Wesley Clark
- Israel: The Alternative Tony Judt
- Italy: The Family Business Alexander Stille
- Looking for the Lost Greeks Garry Wills
- Lowell & the Editors DeSales Harrison
- Mountain Man Larry McMurtry
- Piano Man Robert Winter
- Protest! Agha H. Jafri
- Stranded in the Dark Joyce Carol Oates
- The Golden Age of Hatred Charles Simic
- The Hour Before Dawn Hilary Mantel
- The Jewel of Africa Janet Jagan, reply by Doris Lessing
- The Lady, or the Tiger? Tim Flannery
- The Legacy of John Higham Kenneth Kusmer
- The Millennium & Dostoevsky: An Exchange Joseph Frank, reply by Aileen Kelly
- The Organ Market David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman
- The Other Christians Birger A. Pearson
- The Wages of Coups Richard N. Frye, reply by H.D.S. Greenway
- The War Between Men and Women (Cont’d) Diane Johnson
- The Whole World in Their Hands Jonathan D. Spence
- Un-American Activities Anthony Lewis
- Verboten Dana Goodyear
- Victory at Bunker Hill Martin Filler
- Wartime Lies Jonathan Mirsky
- What Adèle Knew P. N. Furbank
- What’s in an Umlaut? Jens F. Laurson, reply by James Fenton
- World Order & Mr. Bush Brian Urquhart
November
- ‘AIDS in South Africa: the Invisible Cure’ Keith Hansen and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, reply by Helen Epstein
- ‘The Neocons in Power’ J.J. Goldberg, reply by Elizabeth Drew
- ‘Wartime Lies’ The Editors
- ‘Who Was Jesus?’: An Exchange John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed, reply by E.P. Sanders
- Basho Cees Nooteboom, translated from the Dutch by J. M. Coetzee
- Ca’ Pesaro Ingrid D. Rowland
- Clockwork Science Freeman Dyson
- Culture on the Market Charles Rosen
- Defending Bruno Bettelheim Jacquelyn Seevak Sanders, reply by Robert Gottlieb
- Disturbing the Peace David Lodge
- Founding the New York Review: Two Letters from Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop Robert Lowell
- Funny as a Crutch Elizabeth Hardwick
- Good Man, Bad World John Banville
- He Springs Eternal Margaret Atwood
- Heisenberg & the Bomb: An Exchange Jeremy Bernstein and Peter D. Lax, reply by Thomas Powers
- Home Truths Lorrie Moore
- Imitation of Life Andrew O’Hagan
- In Love with Verdi Rosemary Dinnage
- In the Black Garden Neal Ascherson
- Irving Howe Memorial Lecture Morris Dickstein
- Lady Sings the Blues Larry McMurtry
- Leaving the Lake Larry McMurtry
- Lynching Alan Kennis, reply by Jerome S. Bruner
- Mr. Bush & the Divine Joan Didion
- My Lost City Luc Sante
- News from Everywhere Joyce Carol Oates
- Playing with Today Mark Ford
- Silent Music John Bayley
- Singular in Everything John Updike
- Snakes in Paradise J.H. Elliott
- Strictly Business Paul Krugman
- Terror & the Attack on Civil Liberties Ronald Dworkin
- The Awful Truth Russell Baker
- The Fate of a Humanist Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Hong Kong Gesture Jonathan Mirsky
- The Last Romantic Tony Judt
- The Missionary Ronald Steel
- The Negro President Garry Wills
- The Outsider’s Art Tim Parks
- The Saint Michael Kimmelman
- Tumult in the Clouds Roger Shattuck
- Waiting for the General Elizabeth Drew
- What Price Glory? Steven Weinberg
December
- ‘The Culture of Control’ Alfred M. Freedman and Abraham L. Halpern, reply by Jerome S. Bruner
- A Tract for the Times Edmund S. Morgan
- An Alternative Future: An Exchange Amos Elon, Abraham H. Foxman, Michael Walzer, and Omer Bartov, reply by Tony Judt
- Chameleon Genius John Bayley
- Chasing After Providence John Updike
- Darwin and His Doppelgänger Frank J. Sulloway
- Delusions in Baghdad Mark Danner
- Duse Plays the Palace Robert Gottlieb
- Enigmas of Arrival Pankaj Mishra
- Fallen World Geoffrey O’Brien
- False Promises Diane Johnson
- Hate Darryl Pinckney
- Health for Sale Jeff Madrick
- Into the Woods Kwame Anthony Appiah
- It’s All Greek! Jasper Griffin
- It’s Only a Movie Daniel Mendelsohn
- JFK’s Assassination Norman Mailer, Jefferson Morley, G. Robert Blakey, Gerald Posner, and Anthony Summers, et al.
- Lust for Glory R. Howard Bloch, reply by Steven Weinberg
- Murder in Karachi William Dalrymple
- Music on the Grand Tour Lewis Lockwood
- On Not Rocking the Boat Mohammad A. Meah, reply by Russell Baker
- Proust’s Sister Soul André Aciman
- Putin’s Trap Robert Cottrell
- Repression in Cuba David J. Garrow, Peter Gay, Eric Alterman, Stanley Aronowitz, and Marshall Berman, et al.
- Sharon’s Phony War Henry Siegman
- Staging the Empire Ian Buruma
- Ted Hughes & Translation Al Alvarez
- The Art of Disaster Christopher Benfey
- The Difficult Part Cathleen Schine
- The Goblin at War Gordon A. Craig
- The Greatest Richard Dorment
- The Last English Style James Fenton
- The Mythmaking Realist Joyce Carol Oates
- The Strange Case of Robert Oppenheimer Daniel J. Kevles
- The Vanishing Case for War Thomas Powers
- The Way to Reason Alan Ryan
- Uncle Ben Gordon S. Wood
- Unjustly Executed Richard Cohen
- Unsentimental Education Thomas R. Edwards
- Vive la Différence Jennifer Schuessler
- What Ez Could Do Charles Simic
- Young Old Soldiers Brad Leithauser