The New York Review of Books

January

• Alexander, the Movie! Daniel Mendelsohn
• Consciousness: What We Still Don’t Know John R. Searle
• Correction Tom Wrigley
• Death in Texas Sister Helen Prejean
• Fairy Tales for Grown-ups Pico Iyer
• Family Values Jennifer Schuessler
• Gray Herons in the Field above the River W.S. Merwin
• Hero Aryeh Neier
• How Bush Really Won Mark Danner
• Marketing Joe Louis Richard Nininger, reply by Joyce Carol Oates
• On Martin Malia (1924–2004) Stephen Kotkin
• Orientally Yours Robert Gottlieb
• Red-Hot MoMA Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
• The Comedy of Being English Colm Tóibín
• The Photograph Man James Fenton
• The Stakes in Darfur Tim Judah
• The Truth About Terrorism Jonathan Raban
• The Truth about Kaminski John-Paul Himka

February

• ‘Blood on the Forge’ Darryl Pinckney
• ‘Must Schools Fail?’: An Exchange Peter Schrag and Stephan Thernstrom, reply by Richard Rothstein
• ‘Unloved in Arabia’ Turki Al-Faisal, reply by Max Rodenbeck
• A Scandal in Etruria Joseph Connors
• An Affair to Remember Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Bush, Iran & the Bomb Christopher de Bellaigue
• China: Wiping Out the Truth Perry Link
• Correction Daniel Mendelsohn
• Don’t Cry for Me, Guatemala Michael Wood
• Europe vs. America Tony Judt
• Extreme Makeover Brian Urquhart
• Filling the Hole Martin Filler
• Graham Greene & the Stigmata Kenneth L. Woodward, reply by David Lodge
• How Bush Scuttled the Bioweapons Protocol Avis Bohlen, reply by Tony Judt
• In the Führer’s Face Robert Skidelsky
• Inventing Sherlock Holmes Michael Chabon
• It Was the Early Fifties Kenneth L. Woodward
• Kafka Up Close Frederick C. Crews
• Ladies in Satin Sanford Schwartz
• Life Studies Al Alvarez
• McCarthyism at Harvard Robert N. Bellah
• On Fraud in Science: An Exchange Kurt Gottfried, Max Peltier, and Geoffrey Cohen, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• Quartermasters of Terror Patrick Radden Keefe
• Seeing the Unseen Freeman Dyson
• Support the Troops Harvey Cox
• Susan Sontag (1933–2004) Elizabeth Hardwick
• That Hamilton Man Mike Wallace
• The Boy Who Nearly Won the Texaco Art Competition Joe Kane
• The Emperor Putin Robert Cottrell
• The Game’s Afoot Michael Chabon
• The Hermit Nuclear Kingdom Nicholas D. Kristof
• The Ideal Husband Benjamin Kunkel
• The Last Palestinian Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
• The Memory Piano Charles Simic
• Torture and Gonzales: An Exchange Robert S. Rivkin and G. Jan Ligthart, reply by Mark Danner
• Ukraine: the Washington Connection Peter Savodnik
• Voices in the Dark Hilary Mantel

March

• ‘I Is Someone Else’ Luc Sante
• ‘Red-Hot Moma’ Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
• A Snob in the Garden James Fenton
• A Very Un-English Childhood Gabriele Annan
• Album from Hell Anne Applebaum
• America’s Senior Moment Paul Krugman
• Back to the O.K. Corral Larry McMurtry
• Bill of Wrongs Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan
• Bush’s Victory: Second Thoughts Andrew Hacker and Paul Cohen, reply by Mark Danner
• Chinese Shadows Ian Buruma
• Clouds Over Iran Stephen Kinzer
• Colleges: An Endangered Species? Andrew Delbanco
• Correction The Editors
• Error Mark Strand
• Freedom Fighter Alan Ryan
• He’s Back! Elizabeth Drew
• Remembering Francis Crick Oliver Sacks
• Support the Feminist Press Nancy Hoffman
• Survival of the Smallest István Deák
• The Artist in Search of Himself John Golding
• The Buddha’s Cure Pico Iyer
• The Conscientious Op Richard Eder
• The Electoral College Flunks Alexander Keyssar
• The Endangered University Andrew Delbanco
• The King of Crit Frank Kermode
• The Master Toni Bentley
• The Producers Jeff Madrick
• The Real Afghanistan Pankaj Mishra
• The Undefeated Michael Kimmelman
• The Wise Warrior Garry Wills
• Very Bad News Clifford Geertz
• Welcome to Doomsday Bill Moyers

April

• ‘Kafka Up Close’: An Exchange Stanley Corngold and Benno Wagner, reply by Frederick C. Crews
• A Double Life in Black and White Patricia Storace
• A New Lebanon? Max Rodenbeck
• A New Way to See a Leaf Ian Hacking
• A Problem & A Crisis Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, reply by Paul Krugman
• A World of His Own Sanford Schwartz
• After the Last Battle Margaret Atwood
• Angels on the Laundry Line Charles Simic
• Corrections The Editors
• Fathers and Son Russell Baker
• God and the Fight Against AIDS Helen Epstein
• India: The War Over History William Dalrymple
• Iraq: The Real Election Mark Danner
• More Than Fit to Print Anthony Lewis
• Mystery Man Joseph Kerman
• Not in the Army Sean Naylor
• Social Insecurity Jeremy Bernstein
• The Art of Consolation Christopher Benfey
• The Bitter End Freeman Dyson
• The Breaking of the Mau Mau Neal Ascherson
• The Death of Wild Bill Hickok Larry McMurtry
• The First Thatcherite? John Brewer
• The Flawed Report on Dan Rather James C. Goodale
• The Grand Acquisitors Larry McMurtry
• The Homer of Painting Andrew Butterfield
• The Hundred Yard Dash Man Barry Goldensohn
• The Hunted Darryl Pinckney
• The Illusionist Tim Parks
• The Indians’ Own Story Thomas Powers
• The Magic of ‘I’ Alan Ryan
• The Making of William Faulkner J. M. Coetzee
• The Making of a Disaster Gordon S. Wood
• The Moment of Truth? Sue Halpern
• The Orange Revolution Timothy Garton Ash and Timothy Snyder
• The Pritchett Sound Andrew O’Hagan
• The Shame of the Schools Roger Shattuck
• The Siege of Budapest John Lukacs
• Welcome to New Dork John Leonard
• Where the Fun Starts John Lanchester
• Working for Wal-Mart: An Exchange John Day, Merick Chaffee, and Gene Epstein, reply by Simon Head

May

• ‘That Hamilton Man’: An Exchange David Brion Davis and Louise Mirrer, reply by Mike Wallace
• ‘The Anatomy of Fascism’ Zeev Sternhell, reply by Adrian Lyttelton
• ‘The Flawed Report on Dan Rather’: An Exchange Dick Thornburgh and Lou Boccardi, reply by James C. Goodale
• A Cautionary Tale for Americans Pankaj Mishra
• A Day in the Life John Banville
• A Mind of His Own Jeff Madrick
• Adventures of a True Believer Gary Shteyngart
• Amos Oz and the Darkness of Europe Shlomo Avineri, reply by Amos Elon
• Beyond Real John Updike
• Black Arts Thomas Powers
• Cat-and-Mouse Games Patrick Radden Keefe
• Days of Wrath James M. McPherson
• God and Aids Jerome Groopman, reply by Helen Epstein
• God, Aids & Circumcision George Hill, reply by Helen Epstein
• Humanitarianism Is Not Enough Brian Urquhart
• In the Thick of Things Roger Shattuck
• Jocks and the Academy Benjamin DeMott
• McCarthyism at Harvard, cont’d Leon J. Kamin
• Politics: Looking for Liberty Keith Thomas
• Rx for American Poets Charles Simic
• Soldier Home John Balaban
• Sonata for Three Hands Gabriele Annan
• Sorrows of a Hero Guy Lawson
• The Battle of Light with Darkness Ingrid D. Rowland
• The Blessings of the Sun John Updike
• The Energizer Sanford Schwartz
• The Ghost City Amos Elon
• The Indiscreet Charm of Tyranny Ian Buruma
• The Right to Life Hilary Mantel
• The Schizophrenic Sufi Christian Caryl
• The Scientific Takeover P. N. Furbank
• Ukraine & the Us Brent D. Byers, reply by Peter Savodnik
• Victims on Broadway Daniel Mendelsohn
• Vive la Différence! H. Allen Orr
• What’s the Matter with Liberals? Thomas Frank

June

• ‘A Note of the Miraculous’ Joan Acocella
• ‘The Lost Girl’ Lee Siegel, reply by Benjamin Kunkel
• ‘Very Bad News’ Clifford Geertz
• A Holiday in Reality Mark Ford
• A Tragic Grandeur Jonathan Raban
• Another Neverland Cathleen Schine
• At Dawn Robin Robertson
• Between Two Worlds Ian Buruma
• Clare Was Right James Fenton
• Correction The Editors
• Correction The Editors
• Ernst’s Elephant Glenn F. Benge
• He Almost Scooped Darwin Frank J. Sulloway
• How Things Work Witold Rybczynski
• In Love and War W.S. Merwin
• In Love with Jane Diane Johnson
• Looking Forward to the Past Tim Parks
• Off to a Good Start Robert Bartlett
• On ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’ Michael Chabon
• Philhellene Constantine Cavafy, translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn
• Selling Washington Elizabeth Drew
• She Was from Seattle Daniel Mendelsohn
• Slouching Toward Athens Mark Lilla
• Squash John Sutherland, reply by John Banville
• The Anatomy Lesson Charles Rosen
• The Case of Theresa Schiavo Joan Didion
• The Cruel Carpenter James Fenton
• The Custom of the Country Louis Begley
• The End of the Mau Mau David Elstein
• The Fiddler’s Children Orlando Figes
• The Great Victorian Abroad David Gilmour
• The Lost Palestinians Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
• The Pleasure of Their Company Peter France
• The Royal Blues David Hajdu
• The Secret Way to War Mark Danner
• The Wilderness of Solitude Pankaj Mishra
• Victims on Broadway II Daniel Mendelsohn
• Virtual Violence Ian Buruma
• Waiting for Gordon Brown Alan Ryan
• What Are You Going to Do with That? Mark Danner
• What Is Consciousness? Stevan Harnad, reply by John R. Searle
• Wonderful Town? Richard Crampton

July

• ‘Reclaiming the Game’ Michael S. McPherson, reply by Benjamin DeMott
• ‘The Secret Way to War’: An Exchange John Walcott, reply by Mark Danner
• Founders & Keepers Gordon S. Wood
• Giants at Heart Regina Bringolf and Theodore John Kaczynski, reply by István Deák
• Left Out in Turkey Christopher de Bellaigue
• On ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’ Tim Parks
• On Rereading Larry McMurtry
• Privilege & the Press Anthony Lewis
• Small Wonder Benjamin Moser
• Street Diva Arthur Kempton
• The Great Heap of Days Joyce Carol Oates
• The Long Trek to Freedom George M. Fredrickson
• The New World Order Tony Judt
• The Tragic Tale of a Genius Freeman Dyson
• What’s Left of the Union? William Pfaff

August

• Blocked Norman Mailer, Jefferson Morley, Scott Armstrong, G. Robert Blakey, and Gerald Posner, et al.
• Child of the Century Alan Hollinghurst
• Cold Comfort Geoffrey O’Brien
• Endgame Tim Flannery
• Heart of Darkness Norman Rush
• Ian Hamilton Ahdaf Soueif
• Iraq: Bush’s Islamic Republic Peter W. Galbraith
• Killing Cures Sherwin B. Nuland
• Letter from Darfur Caroline Moorehead
• Love’s Wreckage Lorrie Moore
• Matisse’s Pajamas Hilary Spurling
• New Man in Iran Christopher de Bellaigue
• The Dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright Michael Kimmelman
• The Matter with Democrats R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., reply by Thomas Frank
• The Memo, the Press, and the War: An Exchange Michael Kinsley, reply by Mark Danner
• The New American Century? Brian Urquhart
• The Solitary Notetaker Charles Simic
• The Terri Schiavo Case: An Exchange Joseph J. Fins, T.A. Madden, and D.C. Bergen, reply by Joan Didion
• The Truth About Jihad Max Rodenbeck
• The Waiting Game in the Balkans Tim Judah
• The World Is Round John Gray
• Yellow Tulips James Fenton

September

• ‘Left Out in Turkey’ Hal Fessenden, Larry Siems, and Peter Balakian
• ‘The Scientific Takeover’ Charles G. Gillispie, reply by P. N. Furbank
• ‘The Shame of the Schools’ Patricia Jones and Bruce E. Buxton, reply by Roger Shattuck
• A Lost Pop Symphony Scott Staton
• A Shadow World Anita Desai
• After Strange Gods Michael Chabon
• Ah, Wilderness! William H. McNeill
• American Jeremiad Christopher Benfey
• An American Tragedy Thomas Powers
• Domestic Gothic Joyce Carol Oates
• Horror Tour Keith Gessen
• It Couldn’t Happen Here Mark Klempner, reply by Louis Begley
• Knowing Norbert Wiener Steve J. Heims and Hope Franklin O’Neill
• Letter from Evin Prison Shaul Bakhash
• Love and Walt Whitman J. M. Coetzee
• Max Ernst’s Blasphemy Leo Steinberg
• Nailed Down Peter Nabokov
• On Hanging Richard Dorment
• Query Jonathan M. Hansen
• September 11: The View from the West Jonathan Raban
• The Divine Terrorist Orlando Figes
• The Furies John Banville
• The Jewish Question Adam Shatz
• The Other Founders Edmund S. Morgan
• Traces W.S. Merwin
• Why They Do It Christian Caryl

October

• ‘The Bitter End’ Martin Gaynes, reply by Freeman Dyson
• A New Story of Stories Frank Kermode
• America the Vulnerable Gary Hart, reply by Tony Judt
• Antipodean Historians J.G.A. Pocock, reply by Keith Thomas
• Bassani’s Father Masolino d’Amico and Anna Saxon-Forti, reply by Tim Parks
• Brahmins at War James M. McPherson
• China: The Uses of Fear Jonathan Mirsky
• Don’t Cry for Me, Venezuela Alma Guillermoprieto
• Fringe Government Garry Wills
• From The House of the Dead: On Modern European Memory Tony Judt
• Hero Anne Applebaum
• In the Heart of Darkness Adam Hochschild
• John Roberts: The Nominee William L. Taylor
• Judge Roberts on Trial Ronald Dworkin
• Last Chance for Iraq Peter W. Galbraith
• Love in a Cold Climate Brad Leithauser
• Malraux’s Culture Herman Lebovics, reply by Roger Shattuck
• Massacre in Arcadia Pankaj Mishra
• On Our Own Darryl Pinckney
• Patriotic Gore Christopher Benfey
• Strindberg in London Robin Robertson
• The Beat Goes On Anne Carson
• The Black Album John Leonard
• The Body Hunters Marcia Angell
• The Cuban Connection Alma Guillermoprieto
• The Gambler Alma Guillermoprieto
• The Genius of Spinoza Avishai Margalit
• The Ghost City George Friedman
• The Treasure of Comanche County Joyce Carol Oates
• The Truth about Dhanu Mia Bloom, reply by Christian Caryl
• The Voice of Masters Joseph Kerman
• The Wars Over Evolution Richard C. Lewontin
• What the Frescoes Said Ingrid D. Rowland
• When the Russians Came Gabriele Annan
• Wise Man Freeman Dyson

November

• ‘Killing Cures’: An Exchange Andrew Scull and Paul Chodoff, reply by Sherwin B. Nuland
• ‘Quartermaster of Terror’ Cherif Sedky
• A Great Russian Prophet Aileen Kelly
• A Will of His Own John Lanchester
• After the Fall Alan Ryan
• Angel in America Larry McMurtry
• Corrections The Editors
• Crime & Punishment John Harding, reply by Hilary Mantel
• Dangling Men Joyce Carol Oates
• Liberated Girls Alison Lurie
• Playing Music: The Lost Freedom Charles Rosen
• Poet of Wonders Robert Hass
• Portrait of a Monster Jonathan D. Spence
• Soldiers of the Hidden Imam Timothy Garton Ash
• Some Like It Hot Jack M. Hollander, reply by Tim Flannery
• Still Separate & Unequal George M. Fredrickson
• The Case of Dai Qing Jonathan Unger and Geremie Barmé, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
• The Chinese Shadow Robert Skidelsky
• The Concise Whitman David S. Reynolds
• The Entertainer Russell Baker
• The Lost Children of AIDS Helen Epstein
• The Man Who Came to Dinner Mark Ford
• The Man Who Said No Jeremy Bernstein
• The Misunderstood Muslims Pankaj Mishra
• The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg Michael Scammell
• The Return of the Imperial Hero John Brewer
• The Saving Remnant Fintan O’Toole
• The Specter Haunting Alaska Peter Canby
• The Spirit of Play Charles Simic
• The Truman Show Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Truth About the Colleges Andrew Hacker
• The Unread Masterpiece Edmund S. Morgan
• The Witches of Corinth Cathleen Schine
• Torture in Iraq Human Rights Watch
• Translating the Bible Daniel Donoghue, reply by Frank Kermode
• What Bush Wants to Hear David Cole

December

• ‘Shake Hands with the Devil’ Gerald Caplan, reply by Guy Lawson
• ‘The Lost Children of AIDS’: An Exchange Mark Ottenweller and Marion Bunch, reply by Helen Epstein
• ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’ Geoffrey O’Brien
• A Different Synagogue Tony Judt
• Arguing with God Frank Kermode
• Correction The Editors
• Cultivating Voltaire’s Garden P. N. Furbank
• Darwin & Progress Robert J. Richards, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
• Determined Spirit John Updike
• Far from Proust’s Way André Aciman
• Henry Adams’s Theme Garry Wills, reply by Edmund S. Morgan
• History from Below Staughton Lynd, reply by Edmund S. Morgan
• Inside the Madrasas William Dalrymple
• Irving Howe Lecture Morris Dickstein
• Melville the Great Frederick C. Crews
• New World Symphony William H. McNeill
• Norbert Wiener at MIT Bill Troutman, reply by Freeman Dyson
• Parables of a Violent World Michael Wood
• Prague: The Glorious Moment Anthony Grafton
• Proust’s Way? André Aciman
• Query Charles Glass
• Targeted in Lebanon Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Massing, Paul Auster, Noam Chomsky, and Salman Rushdie, et al.
• The Bird Man Martin Filler
• The Bloody Partnership James M. McPherson
• The Boss Michael Tomasky
• The Case of Orhan Pamuk English PEN
• The Chinese Shadow: II Robert Skidelsky
• The End of News? Michael Massing
• The First Feminist Fiona MacCarthy
• The Floor of Floors Ingrid D. Rowland
• The French Riots: Will They Change Anything? William Pfaff
• The Horrors of War Tim Parks
• The Irish Indian Chief John Brewer
• The Last Minstrel Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Lights Are on Everywhere Charles Simic
• The Persian Difference Christopher de Bellaigue
• The Press: The Enemy Within Michael Massing
• The Romantic Survivor Anne Barton
• The Strange Case of Chaplain Yee Joseph Lelyveld
• The Warrior Children Caroline Moorehead
• Top Doc Sherwin B. Nuland
• Trumpeter Swan Robin Robertson
• What Art Does Richard Dorment
• What Happened to Welfare? Christopher Jencks