January
- ‘A Great Day in History’ Brian Urquhart
- ‘Cathay’ Charles Simic
- A Very Special Relationship Amos Elon
- As a Woman Grows Older J. M. Coetzee
- Culture & the Market Benjamin Moser, reply by Charles Rosen
- David Oppenheim’s Case Peter Singer, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Good Pictures Janet Malcolm
- Hall of Mirrors John Lanchester
- In the River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks
- Myth Robin Robertson
- Roughing It Orlando Figes
- STAR! John Gregory Dunne
- The Antipodes of Glory Ian Buruma
- The Fog of Justice Tim Judah
- The Story of a Bubble William D. Nordhaus
- To Israelis and Palestinians: A Statement of Support Robert S. McNamara, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard V. Allen, Frank C. Carlucci, and Warren M. Christopher, et al.
- You Can Go Home Again Alastair Reid
February
- ‘Delusions in Baghdad’ Hume Horan, reply by Mark Danner
- ‘Diversity in America’ Peter H. Schuck, reply by Andrew Hacker
- ‘Murder in Karachi’: An Exchange Bernard-Henri Levy, reply by William Dalrymple
- ‘Talking All the Way’ Eric E. Lampard, reply by Gordon A. Craig
- A Likud ‘Liberal’? Shimshon Arad, reply by Amos Elon
- A Pan-American Flight J.H. Elliott
- A Passion for Evolution H. Allen Orr
- A World of Words Roger Shattuck
- An American Tragedy Marshall Frady
- Another Wilder Opera Nicholas Deutsch
- Back to Normalcy! Russell Baker
- Big Deal in Iran Christopher de Bellaigue
- Can This Marriage Be Saved? Joyce Carol Oates
- Engines of Destruction Niall Ferguson
- Getting in Nature’s Way Sherwin B. Nuland
- He Spelled It ‘Happily’ Edwin M. Yoder Jr., reply by Jonathan D. Spence
- Hung Up in Washington Elizabeth Drew
- In No Man’s Land Anthony Grafton
- Israel: The Threat from Within Henry Siegman
- Love Letter Tim Parks
- New York’s Finest Michael Tomasky
- No Bloody Toe Shoes Joan Acocella
- Now They Tell Us Michael Massing
- Portrait of Diane Arbus Patricia Bosworth
- Pulling the Rug Out from Under Anne Applebaum
- Rite of Passage Richard Murphy
- Spy Fever Thomas Powers
- Tales of Two Cities Gabriele Annan
- The Fool of Pest Richard Horton
- The Mess in Afghanistan Ahmed Rashid
- The Rescue of W.B. Yeats John Banville
- The Underworld of Work Andrew Hacker
- The Wars of the Texas Succession Paul Krugman
- Winged Messages Daniel Mendelsohn
March
- ‘A Beaut’ Richard Murphy, reply by Sherwin B. Nuland
- ‘Inventing a Nation’ Hugh Brogan, reply by Edmund S. Morgan
- ‘Now They Tell Us’: An Exchange Robert G. Kaiser, Judith Miller, and James Risen, reply by Michael Massing
- ‘The First Citizen of India’ Pankaj Mishra
- ‘The Fool of Pest’: An Exchange Sherwin B. Nuland, reply by Richard Horton
- A Double Life John Banville
- America’s Original Sin George M. Fredrickson
- Breaking with the Past John Brewer
- Chiang’s Monster Jonathan D. Spence
- Correction The Editors
- Difference in Similarity Charles Simic
- Dust & Daemons Michael Chabon
- Flaming Creatures Tim Flannery
- Hidden Truths Brian Urquhart
- Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse John Ashbery
- Lear for Real Geoffrey O’Brien
- Learning from New Guinea John Barker, reply by Jared Diamond
- Mysteries of the Caucasus Christian Caryl
- On ‘The Ivory Tower’ Alan Hollinghurst
- One World? Robert Skidelsky and Vijay Joshi
- One in a Million Freeman Dyson
- Primary Colors Elizabeth Drew
- Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangers Emma Rothschild
- Seeds of Revolution Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
- Sex & the City John Bayley
- The Dawn of McScience Richard Horton
- The Hidden France Gordon S. Wood
- The Moses of Her People James M. McPherson
- The Trauma Trap Frederick C. Crews
- The Winning Hand James Chace
- Tomorrow the World Thomas Powers
- Twilight at Easter Jared Diamond
- Vile Bodies Gabriele Annan
April
- ‘Iraq: Now They Tell Us’: An Exchange Michael Gordon and Dana Milbank, reply by Michael Massing
- ‘Israel: The Threat from Within’: An Exchange Benny Morris, reply by Henry Siegman
- A Passionate Clamor Brad Leithauser
- Body and Soul P. N. Furbank
- Brzezinski’s Thesis Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Did Tocqueville ‘Get’ America? Garry Wills
- Disgrace at Guantanamo Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Forbidden Knowledge Neal Ascherson
- George Kennan at 100 Ronald Steel
- God in the Hands of Angry Sinners Garry Wills
- Great Adventurer Gerald Early
- Homo Erectus Ruth Scurr
- In Search of Hezbollah Adam Shatz
- Islam Confronts Its Demons Max Rodenbeck
- Keats & Helen Keller Helen Vendler, reply by Roger Shattuck
- Living Dangerously Al Alvarez
- Me, Myself, and I Stephen Greenblatt
- Murder, Russian Style Orlando Figes
- Our World Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
- Shakespeare, Stage or Page? James Fenton
- Stumbling into Space Timothy Ferris
- The ‘Jewish Bismarck’ Amos Elon
- The American Mission? William Pfaff
- The Disintegration of Palestine Edward R.F. Sheehan
- The Failure Thomas Powers
- The Legion of Christ Father Owen Kearns, LC, reply by Garry Wills
- The Lesson of Hannah Arendt Samantha Power
- The Lives and Loves of Samuel Clemens Larry McMurtry
- The Sacrifice John Banville
- The Two Lives of General Grant Larry McMurtry
- The Visionary Andrew Butterfield
- The Wrong Stuff Steven Weinberg
- Their Ignorance and Majesty Christopher Benfey
- Weapon of Mass Destruction William H. McNeill
- What Happened at Vienna Harry Lieber, reply by Steven Weinberg
- You Can Take It With You W.S. Merwin
May
- ‘Back in the US of A’ Andrew O’Hagan
- ‘Doomed to Failure in the Middle East’ Fifty-two former senior British diplomats
- ‘Spain & the Communists’ R.W. Davies
- ‘The Fool of Pest’ Hal Hellman
- A Matter of Truth Brian Urquhart
- A New Kind of War Edmund S. Morgan
- Bellow’s Gift J. M. Coetzee
- Bush and the Lesser Evil Anthony Lewis
- City Folks Sue Halpern
- Correction The Editors
- Dante: to Guido Cavalcanti Joshua Weiner
- Disco Dreams Luc Sante
- Eastern Glory Ingrid D. Rowland
- Eastward Ho! David Gilmour
- Goodbye to All That David Lodge
- How to Get Out of Iraq Peter W. Galbraith
- In Bush’s Washington Russell Baker
- In Search of Hezbollah-II Adam Shatz
- Israel’s Bomb Victor Gilinsky
- Making It David Herbert Donald
- Master of Fear Ian Buruma
- Memories of Underdevelopment Sarah Kerr
- Miracles & the Scientist Carter Bancroft, reply by H. Allen Orr
- Name in the Sand W.S. Merwin
- Newton & Civil Liberties Sara Jones Nelson
- Saboteur in Texas Benjamin Moser
- Taiwan on the Edge Jonathan Mirsky
- The Cold War over the Arts Michael Kimmelman
- The Party Isn’t Over Jonathan Mirsky
- The Rise of bin Laden Ahmed Rashid
- The Strange Music of Horace Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Tragedy of Roger Casement Colm Tóibín
- The World on a String Freeman Dyson
- Tough Guys Linda Colley
- Tyrol: Retreat to Reality Tim Parks
- When the Lid Came off England Keith Thomas
June
- A Cautionary Tale Brian Urquhart
- A Little Iliad Daniel Mendelsohn
- A Little Leap Forward Nicholas D. Kristof
- Adam’s Umbrella Charles Simic
- Auden Remakes ‘The Tempest’! Mark Ford
- Babylon on the Subway Mike Wallace
- Bush: The Dream Campaign Elizabeth Drew
- Crossing the Red Line Bill McKibben
- Heart of Darkness Caroline Fraser
- Impasse in Kosovo Tim Judah
- It Happened One Night Robert Darnton
- Lessons of a Master Garry Wills
- Letter Alma Guillermoprieto
- Minding the Brain Ian Hacking
- Mission Impossible? Paul Kennedy
- Patriot Games Andrew Hacker
- Soviet Sad Sack Ken Kalfus
- Stalled in Iran Christopher de Bellaigue
- That Old Labyrinth Song Joseph Kerman
- The Awful Truth Thomas R. Edwards
- The Good Bad Boy Alison Lurie
- The Heart of the Country Tim Flannery
- The Logic of Torture Mark Danner
- The Prophet John Leonard
- The Shopper’s Revolution Gordon S. Wood
- The Truth About Shostakovich Orlando Figes
- Torture and Truth Mark Danner
- Unfit to Print? Michael Massing
July
- ‘The Fabric of the Cosmos’ Brian Greene and Solomon Feferman, reply by Freeman Dyson
- A Great Betrayal Simon Sebag Montefiore
- A Major Attack McAllister Hull, reply by Brian Urquhart
- Big Ben John Brewer
- Corrections The Editors
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.: An Exchange Robert Moats Miller, reply by Russell Baker
- Making Torture Legal Anthony Lewis
- Nailed! Daniel Mendelsohn
- One of Their Gods Constantine Cavafy, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Out, Damned Blot! Frederick C. Crews
- Street Arab John Updike
- The Empire Under Siege Pankaj Mishra
- The Lost Art of Eating Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Murder of Lucy Pollard Caleb Crain
- The Shostakovich Case Solomon Volkov, reply by Orlando Figes
- The Truth About the Drug Companies Marcia Angell
- The Unknown West Larry McMurtry
- War Without End Amos Elon
- What Henry Knew John Bayley
- Will Turkey Make It? Stephen Kinzer
August
- ‘The Good Bad Boy’ Lois R. Kuznets, David Mitchell, and Gerald Kamber, reply by Alison Lurie
- ‘The Morning Quickie’ Alma Guillermoprieto
- ‘Unfit to Print?’ George Packer, reply by Michael Massing
- Comic, Sad and Indefinite Hermione Lee
- Crossing the Archipelago Robin Robertson
- Disaster in Darfur John Ryle
- Down There on a Visit Charles Simic
- Dutch Treat Benjamin Moser
- India: The Neglected Majority Wins! Pankaj Mishra
- Iraq: America’s Private Armies Patrick Radden Keefe
- Is It All Just a Dream? Geoffrey O’Brien
- Le Carré’s War on Terror Christian Caryl
- Lichtenberg in Love Gabriele Annan
- Light and Outrageous Edward Mendelson
- The Greatest Republican James M. McPherson
- The Threat from the Sea Jonathan Raban
- The Tragedy of Bill Clinton Garry Wills
- Tocqueville’s Heart Arthur Goldhammer, reply by Garry Wills
- Troublemaker Russell Baker
- Vandalism and Enlightenment James Fenton
- What the Court Really Said Ronald Dworkin
September
- A Genius for Friendship Timothy Garton Ash
- A Letter on Human Nature Isaiah Berlin
- AIDS: The Elusive Vaccine Richard Horton
- Ariadne’s Own Story Louis Begley
- Big Book on Campus Anthony Grafton
- China’s Mosaic Bruce Gilley, reply by Nicholas D. Kristof
- Days of Reckoning John Ashbery
- Edmund Wilson’s Vanished World Louis Menand
- How Bush Got It Wrong Thomas Powers
- Improvising the Holocaust István Deák
- Iraq: The Bungled Transition Peter W. Galbraith
- John Clare’s Genius James Fenton
- Keats Is the One Lawrence Dugan, reply by Brad Leithauser
- New World Blues Elaine Blair
- On Carlos Kleiber (1930–2004) Joseph Kerman
- On Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
- Pinning the Blame Elizabeth Drew
- Query Kenneth Gross
- Sander’s Human Comedy Luc Sante
- The Black Diaries W.J. McCormack, reply by Colm Tóibín
- The Emperor Constantine Czeslaw Milosz, translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass
- The Good General Brian Urquhart
- The Making of a Mess Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- The Red Line Kent G. Dedrick, reply by Bill McKibben
- The Whirlwind Edmund S. Morgan
- These Illusions Are Real Fintan O’Toole
- Uganda: The Secret War Tim Judah
- What Happened to ‘Brown’? Kathleen M. Sullivan
- Where It Began Ronald Steel
October
- ‘Unfinished Dialogue’ Henry Hardy
- A Lesson of September 11 Ingrid D. Rowland
- Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story Mark Danner
- Africa: The Hard Truth Neal Ascherson
- Albee & the Women Stanley Kauffmann, reply by Fintan O’Toole
- An Illegal War Kofi Annan
- Aubade Anthony Hecht
- Auden’s Wit Edward Mendelson
- Bigger and Better? William H. McNeill
- Bush & Kerry: A Big Divide Benjamin M. Friedman
- Correction The Editors
- Death in Battle? Irma B. Jaffe, reply by Russell Baker
- Empire, Anyone? James Chace
- Getting Clare Clear James Fenton
- Ghost of a Garden Robin Robertson
- Gone with the Wind Darryl Pinckney
- Is There Hope for the South? George M. Fredrickson
- Israel and the Arafat Question Robert Malley
- Leo Strauss: The European Mark Lilla
- Lone Star Michael Kimmelman
- Loves of the Lambs Lorin Stein
- Morality Tale Clifford Geertz
- Mystery in the Heartland Jason Epstein
- Out of Iraq Stanley Hoffmann
- Politics in the ‘New Normal’ America Joan Didion
- Return to Catalonia Colm Tóibín
- Russia: Unmanifest Destiny Robert Cottrell
- Stiff Upper Lip Diane Johnson
- The Art of the Deal John Brewer
- The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet Stephen Greenblatt
- The Destruction of Germany Ian Buruma
- The Last Word on Evil Norman Rush
- The Myth of the Olympics Jasper Griffin
- The Triumph of a Distinguished Failure Witold Rybczynski
- Time Out? Alan Ryan
- Unloved in Arabia Max Rodenbeck
- What Passed at Colonus Seamus Heaney
- What Was Fascism? Adrian Lyttelton
November
- ‘A Bad Start’? Rolf Steininger, reply by Tim Parks
- ‘Ishi’s Brain’ Orin Starn
- ‘Out, Damned Blot’ Joseph Masling, reply by Frederick C. Crews
- ‘The Man with the Golden Smile’ Joyce Carol Oates
- A Great Reporter at Large Russell Baker
- A Hero of Our Time Samantha Power
- After a Flight Eugenio Montale, translated from the Italian by Jonathan Galassi
- Alive! William H. McNeill
- An Icelandic Saga Robert Cottrell
- Becky in the Movies Robert Gottlieb
- Bombay: The Lower Depths Pankaj Mishra
- Clinton’s Charm Susan Neiman
- Correction The Editors
- Correction The Editors
- Der Führer’s Face Nancy Brach, reply by Russell Baker
- Dishonesty in Science Richard C. Lewontin
- Dreams of Empire Tony Judt
- Eckhout in Brazil Marina Warner, reply by Benjamin Moser
- In Sparkworld John Lanchester
- Irving Howe Lecture Morris Dickstein
- Jeri Laber Award Will Schwalbe
- Lessons of the Master Rosemary Dinnage
- Libido Lite John Updike
- Love in Upper Bohemia Gabriele Annan
- Passionate Pilgrim Hermione Lee
- Paul Klebnikov Peter Matthiessen, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., E.L. Doctorow, and Jirí Grusa
- Pears Before Swine Ingrid D. Rowland
- Query Michael W. Flamm
- Reading Hopkins Gerard DiSenso
- Start Spreading the News Benjamin Moser
- Taking Reality by Surprise Michael Wood
- The Artistic Bloke Richard Dorment
- The Closing of the Straussian Mind Mark Lilla
- The Election and America’s Future Ian Buruma, Michael Ignatieff, Edmund S. Morgan, Brian Urquhart, and Garry Wills, et al.
- The Perfect Traveler Pico Iyer
- The Reigns in Spain J.H. Elliott
- The Truth About Muslims William Dalrymple
- The View from the Heartland Joseph Lelyveld
- The Wealth Poverty Buys Charles Simic
- Unanswered Prayer Lorrie Moore
- Uncle Sam Is Watching You David Cole
- What Is a Just War? Garry Wills
- What Philip Knew J. M. Coetzee
- What Slavery Was Really Like Gordon S. Wood
- Which Is the Real Mendelssohn? Lewis Lockwood
- William Kapell Died Michael Kimmelman
- Zodiac: a Farewell Brad Leithauser
December
- ‘Arguing about War’ Jean Bethke Elshtain, reply by Garry Wills
- ‘Out of Iraq’ Albion M. Urdank, reply by Stanley Hoffmann
- A Double Bind Al Alvarez
- Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) Brad Leithauser
- Backstage in the Tropics Anita Desai
- Confidence Games Caroline Fraser
- Declensions Anthony Hecht
- Faith-Based History Alan Ryan
- For the Birds Daniel Mendelsohn
- In Abraham’s Vineyard Amos Elon
- Inside the Leviathan Simon Head
- James Chace (1931–2004) Ronald Steel
- Knut Hamsun’s Night of Fire Monica Ferrell
- Making Faces John Updike
- Must Schools Fail? Richard Rothstein
- Nero’s Deadline Constantine Cavafy, translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Notes from Underground Fiona MacCarthy
- On War Chris Hedges
- Passage to China Amartya Sen
- Passage to India Thomas Melvin, reply by Robert Gottlieb
- Pictures from an Institution Daniel Mendelsohn
- Query Fred Inglis
- Secret Intelligence and the ‘War on Terror’ Thomas Powers
- Sentimental Education John Banville
- Sharon and the Future of Palestine Henry Siegman
- Specimen Days James M. McPherson
- Subversive Activities Keith Gessen
- Summing Him Up Pico Iyer
- Surprise! Surprise! Mark Ford
- The Art of Pleasing Robert Gottlieb
- The Drug Companies and the Universities Lawrence Sincich, reply by Marcia Angell
- The End of the Affair David Lodge
- The Magician Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Man in the Smoking Jacket Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Mendelssohn Children Arthur Naiman, reply by Lewis Lockwood
- The Missing Link John Banville
- The Royal Family Alison Lurie
- The Ways of Genius Anthony Grafton
- What a Disaster! Orlando Figes