- ‘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