January
- ‘In the Heart of Darkness’ Jean-Luc Vellut, reply by Adam Hochschild
- ‘Smile’ Van Dyke Parks, reply by Scott Staton
- An Affair of State Jamey Gambrell
- Baker’s ‘World’ Russell Baker
- Histoire de V. Lorin Stein
- Kurds in Turkey: The Big Change Stephen Kinzer
- Mozart’s Magic Marriage Joseph Kerman
- Pagan Litany Patricia Storace
- Salvation Through Laughter Charles Simic
- Spectacular Meghan O’Rourke
- The Coming Meltdown Bill McKibben
- The Great Black Hope Ian Buruma
- The Man Who Changed History William H. McNeill
- The Mirage of Empire John Gray
- The Pious Revolutionary Andrew Butterfield
- The Tipping Point? Jim Hansen
- The Unquiet American Pankaj Mishra
- The Way to a Fair Deal Jeff Madrick
February
- ‘Fringe Religion’? Jeane E. Rosenfeld
- ‘The Biggest Secret’ Thomas Powers
- ‘The Enemy Within’: An Exchange Judith Miller and S. Robert Lichter, reply by Michael Massing
- A Shrine to Mussolini Amos Elon
- An Affair to Remember Daniel Mendelsohn
- Barbarians at the Gates J.H. Elliott
- From the Troubadours to Frank Sinatra Charles Rosen
- Genocide in Slow Motion Nicholas D. Kristof
- Henry James’s New York Colm Tóibín
- Homage to Philip Larkin John Banville
- How Democratic Is the Constitution Gordon S. Wood
- In the ‘Crucible of War’ Robert D. Kaplan
- In the Desert, Prime Time John Leonard
- Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death Garry Wills
- Liu Binyan (1925–2005) Perry Link
- Louis, Schmeling, and Leonard Susan H. Llewellyn, reply by Ian Buruma
- Moment Wisława Szymborska
- On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress Ronald Dworkin, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Laurence H. Tribe, David Cole, and Curtis Bradley, et al.
- Sleeping Beauty J. M. Coetzee
- Special Orders Edward Hirsch
- Summoning the Spirits Luc Sante
- The Art of the Dead James Fenton
- The Case for India William Dalrymple
- The Emperor Vladimir Robert Cottrell
- The Killing Equation Henry Siegman
- The Making of a Poet Christopher Benfey
- The Ominous New Pact Tim Flannery
- The Passion of C.S. Lewis Alison Lurie
- The Plot That Failed Eamon Duffy
- The Strange Case of Judge Alito Ronald Dworkin
- The Twins’ New Poland Timothy Garton Ash
- The UN Oil-for-Food Program: Who Is Guilty? Brian Urquhart
- White Secrets Sanford Schwartz
- Whose Culture Is It? Kwame Anthony Appiah
March
- ‘Angel in America’ Larry McMurtry
- ‘Hey, It’s Me’ Arthur Kempton
- ‘The Bird Man’ David Gordon, reply by Martin Filler
- ‘The Coming Meltdown’ Chella Rajan, reply by Bill McKibben
- ‘The End of News?’ Lisa Vives, reply by Michael Massing
- ‘The Specter Haunting Alaska’: An Exchange Donald Craig Mitchell, reply by Peter Canby
- ‘The True Epic Vision’ Jasper Griffin
- ‘The Truth about the Colleges’ Patrick Allitt, William R. Fitzsimmons, and Marilyn McGrath Lewis, reply by Andrew Hacker
- A Story Still to Be Told Tony Judt
- A Version of Pastoral Denis Donoghue
- Among the Infidels Clifford Geertz
- An Ordinary Girl Evan Hughes
- Are We Safer? David Cole
- Are We Safer? An Epilogue David Cole
- Baby, It’s Cold Outside Brad Leithauser
- Dishonor in Hawaii W.S. Merwin
- Eminent Anti-Victorian Alan Hollinghurst
- From the Troubadours to Sinatra: Part II Charles Rosen
- Ghosts Neal Ascherson
- Hamas: The Perils of Power Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
- He Walked with a Zombie Geoffrey O’Brien
- Italia Nostra Adrian Lyttelton
- Joy of the Worm Richard Geldard
- Love of Fact John Updike
- Not a Terrorist Eliot Weinberger
- Paul Henry Lang Anne Pecheux Lang, reply by Charles Rosen
- Suddenly, Last Summer Gabriele Annan
- The Best and the Brightest Al Alvarez
- The First Book Renee Weiss
- The Genius of Ambiguity John Gross
- The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It Paul Krugman and Robin Wells
- The Mess Peter W. Galbraith
- The Powers of Invention Charles Simic
- The Right to Ridicule Ronald Dworkin
- The Willi Münzenberg Mystery Stephen Koch, reply by Michael Scammell
- Their Master’s Voice Max Rodenbeck
- Two Poems Elizabeth Bishop
- Was It a Just War? James M. McPherson
- When a Scorpion Meets a Scorpion Tim Flannery
April
- ‘Brokeback Mountain’: An Exchange James Schamus and Joel Conarroe, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
- ‘Proust’s Way?’: An Exchange Lydia Davis, Marcel Muller, Christopher Prendergast, and Jan van Rij, reply by André Aciman
- ‘The Secret Way to War’ Frank Rich
- ‘The Strange Case of Justice Alito’: An Exchange Charles Fried, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- ‘The Truth about the Colleges’ Stefan Talman, reply by Andrew Hacker
- ‘Tiananmen Follies’: An Exchange Geremie Barmé and Dai Qing, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
- ‘What Happened to Welfare?’ Fred Block, reply by Christopher Jencks
- A Matter of English Justice John Lanchester
- An American Iliad Garry Wills
- Apologies to the Iroquois Gordon S. Wood
- Baghdad: The Besieged Press Orville Schell
- Beyond Words William H. McNeill
- Corrections The Editors
- Corrections The Editors
- Dimming the Lights Joyce Carol Oates
- Force of Nature Robert Gottlieb
- Hamas: The Last Chance for Peace? Henry Siegman
- Happy Birthday, Sam! Colm Tóibín
- History and National Stupidity Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Iran and the Bomb Christopher de Bellaigue
- It Wasn’t Leo Natalie Zemon Davis
- Mothers of Ill Children Wendy Chavkin
- Mr. Natural Ian Buruma
- Old Fashions Julia Hartwig
- Pilgrim’s Progress Anita Desai
- Pioneers Benjamin Moser
- Russia: The Persecution of Civil Society Aryeh Neier and Leonard Benardo
- Speak of the Devil Keith Thomas
- The Custom-House Robin Robertson
- The Global Delusion John Gray
- The God of Realism Robert Hughes
- The Hope of the Web Bill McKibben
- The Power of Reticence Charles Simic
- The Real Patriotic War Anne Applebaum
- The Titan of Titans Ingrid D. Rowland
- Who Killed Christopher Marlowe? Stephen Greenblatt
- William James and the Spiritualists Linda Simon, reply by Luc Sante
- Woman in the Middle Anthony Lewis
- Word Wizard Andrew O’Hagan
- Zanzibar: Love and Exile Darryl Pinckney
May
- ‘Righteous Anger’ Calvin H. Johnson, reply by Gordon S. Wood
- ‘The Wrong Sow’ Tom Shippey
- China: The Shame of the Villages Jonathan Mirsky
- Christian Allegory Paul J. Weithman
- City Lights John Brewer
- Correction The Editors
- Evolving Evolution Israel Rosenfield and Edward Ziff
- Flaubert, C’est Moi Julian Barnes
- Founding Mother Alan Ryan
- France: The Children’s Hour William Pfaff
- Freedom to Write Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely
- History Boy David Lodge
- In Samuel Palmer’s Garden James Fenton
- Jane Jacobs, 1916–2006 Jason Epstein
- Lucian Freud John Updike
- Mozart at 250 Charles Rosen
- Notes from Underground Hugh Eakin
- Open Letter Kenneth J. Winkle and Marcela Raffaelli
- Progressive but Not Liberal Thomas Nagel
- Rumors of a Coup Christian Caryl
- Sickert’s Theater Sanford Schwartz
- Talking It Up Russell Baker
- The Berlusconi Show Alexander Stille
- The Italian Communists and the Us Richard N. Gardner, reply by Adrian Lyttelton
- The One and Only Anne Barton
- The Outlaw World Brian Urquhart
- The Rich and Everyone Else Andrew Hacker
- The Secrets of the Bomb Jeremy Bernstein
- The Spanish Tragedy Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Way We Lived Then Claire Messud
- They’ll Take Their Stand George M. Fredrickson
- What Lincoln Said Mark Tushnet, reply by Ronald Dworkin
June
- ‘The One and Only’ Clare Asquith, reply by Anne Barton
- A Letter To AIPAC Betty McCollum
- Afghanistan: On the Brink Ahmed Rashid
- All You Need Is Love Ronald Steel
- American Religion: The Great Retreat Gordon S. Wood
- Anna the Great Orlando Figes
- Benjamin Demott Memorial David Sofield
- Between Comedy and Horror Joan Acocella
- Cosmopolitans Alan Ryan
- Demagogue Without a Cause Anthony Lewis
- Eating Out Jason Epstein
- Found Horizons John Hammond
- In Tora Prison Ahdaf Soueif and Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance (HAMSA)
- Lives of Dr. Johnson Frank Kermode
- Mousiness Garry Wills
- People Walking through the Night Mark Strand
- Power Grab Elizabeth Drew
- Queries George H. Thomson and Steven Burch
- Rejected Legacies Martin Mayer, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Religion from the Outside Freeman Dyson
- The Betrayer’s Gospel Eduard Iricinschi, Lance Jenott, and Philippa Townsend
- The Charms of Selfishness P. N. Furbank
- The Novelist in the Gallery Willibald Sauerländer
- The Power of Ruins Charles Simic
- The Sea Around Us Linda Colley
- The Storm over the Israel Lobby Michael Massing
- The Trouble with Costa Rica Stephen Kinzer
- The US in Peril? Jeff Madrick
- The Way Out Daniel Mendelsohn
- The Writer and the Tyrant Neal Ascherson
- Unparallel Lives Robert L. Herbert
- Watch on the Rhine William H. McNeill
- What Does Olmert Want? Amos Elon
- Your Dangerous Drugstore Marcia Angell
July
- ‘Beware of Pity’ Joan Acocella
- ‘The Medici Conspiracy’: An Exchange Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini, reply by Hugh Eakin
- After the Fall Gabriele Annan
- At the Trough Christian Caryl
- Beckett: Still Stirring Tim Parks
- Blacking Up Darryl Pinckney
- Campus Watch Daniel Pipes, reply by Michael Massing
- Hot, Cold and Imperial Robert Skidelsky
- In Case of Emergency David Cole
- In the Luminous Deep John Banville
- Ingres vs. Ingres Sanford Schwartz
- Open Letter to the President of Iran Mansour Bonakdarian and Danny Postel
- The Case for Decency John Gray
- The First Bolivarian Revolution J.H. Elliott
- The Good Soldier Jonathan Raban
- The Light of Antonello Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Threat to the Planet Jim Hansen
August
- ‘Breaking the Spell’ Daniel C. Dennett and Nicholas Humphrey, reply by Freeman Dyson
- ‘June Fourth’ Seventeen Years Later: How I Kept a Promise Pu Zhiqiang
- A New Bolivia? Alma Guillermoprieto
- All in the Family Michael Kimmelman
- Barbara Epstein (1928–2006) Larry McMurtry, Edmund S. Morgan, John Ashbery, Alison Lurie, and Elizabeth Hardwick, et al.
- Burdens of Inheritance Sarah Kerr
- Glimpses Russell Baker
- How Judges Should Judge Jeremy Waldron
- Making It New Charles Simic
- Mindless in Iraq Peter W. Galbraith
- Redcoat Liberation George M. Fredrickson
- Shipping News Witold Rybczynski
- Skills Jonathan Aaron
- The Artist as Prospector John Updike
- The Foreign Policy the US Needs Stanley Hoffmann
- The Israel Lobby Roger Hurwitz, reply by Michael Massing
- The Man Who Rowed Away Al Alvarez
- The Time of the Shia Max Rodenbeck
- The View from the Bridge Christopher Benfey
- Why the Court Said No David Cole
September
- ‘Manliness’ Harvey C. Mansfield, reply by Garry Wills
- ‘Stravinsky: the Second Exile’ Robert Craft
- ‘The Threat to the Planet’: An Exchange Richard A. Rosen and Ruth F. Weiner, reply by Jim Hansen
- A New Middle East Robert Malley
- A Pondered Life Lorrie Moore
- Barbara Epstein and ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Kem Knapp Sawyer
- China’s Great Terror Jonathan D. Spence
- Goodbye to All That? Tony Judt
- Living in an Impasse Brian Urquhart
- Nightmare on the Prairie Geoffrey O’Brien
- Revelations for the West Hilary Mantel
- September 11 at the Movies Daniel Mendelsohn
- Sunlight in the Dark Cathleen Schine
- Talking Genes H. Allen Orr
- Texas: The Death of the Natives Larry McMurtry
- The Case of Dr. Condor Bill Dawes
- The Fleischman Collection and the Getty Barbara G. Fleischman
- The Heights of Pleasure Andrew Butterfield
- The Hero’s Wife Speaks Jasper Griffin
- The Lost Founders Fred Anderson
- The Neglected Master Sanford Schwartz
- The New Bolivia: II Alma Guillermoprieto
- Three Questions for America Ronald Dworkin
- War Within War Max Rodenbeck
- Which Road to Berlin? Conn Nugent, reply by Robert Skidelsky
- Why They Hate Japan Ian Buruma
October
- ‘Power Grab’ Morton Mintz, reply by Elizabeth Drew
- ‘The War That Never Ended’ Gregor Dallas, reply by Robert Skidelsky
- A Disaster by Any Measure William Pfaff
- Aid: Can It Work? Nicholas D. Kristof
- Al-Qaeda’s Inner Circle Robert F. Worth
- All Aboard Hans Koning
- An ‘Emergency Constitution’? Bruce Ackerman, reply by David Cole
- Avigdor and Victor Eve Fleisher, reply by Amos Elon
- Back to the Beginning Charles Simic
- Books@Google Jason Epstein
- British Art: The Showcase Julian Bell
- Cheney: The Fatal Touch Joan Didion
- Coming in from the Cold Denis Donoghue
- Correction The Editors
- Court Favorite Jonathan Mirsky
- Death at Marathon Peter M. Smith, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Drawing a Dog in Iraq Robert Skidelsky
- How Lincoln Won David Bromwich
- Ideas for Democrats? Frank Rich
- Inside the Endangered Arctic Refuge Peter Matthiessen
- Islam in Europe Timothy Garton Ash
- Lorenz Brad Leithauser
- Men Without Qualities Joyce Carol Oates
- Opera: Follow the Music Charles Rosen
- Our Man in the Underworld Mark Ford
- Proust: The Race Against Death Graham Robb
- Rediscovering a Lost Continent Anthony Grafton
- Scandal in Budapest István Deák
- Secrets of the Cave Paintings William H. McNeill
- Serbia: The Coming Storm Tim Judah
- Thanks for the Memory Sue Halpern
- The Artful Clarks John Updike
- The Case for Liberalism: An Exchange Michael J Sandel, reply by Thomas Nagel
- The Heroic Nerd Luc Sante
- The Holy Terror Eamon Duffy
- The Moving Target John Gray
- The New Hollywood? Edward Jay Epstein
- The Poet in the Tower J. M. Coetzee
- The Prisoners Speak Jonathan Raban
- The Scorpion Mystery David Parks, reply by Tim Flannery
- The Terrified Copyist Jennifer Schuessler
- The Triumph of a Double Life Amos Elon
- The Wrong Company Ahmed Rashid
- What to Do about Health Care Arnold Relman
- Writing Nature’s Greatest Book Freeman Dyson
November
- ‘All Will Be Well’ Declan Kiely
- ‘Books @ Google’ Peter Friedman and Pat Schroeder, reply by Jason Epstein
- ‘Punishment: the US Record’ The Editors
- A ‘Miracle of Deliverance’? Niall Ferguson
- A Cemetery in Limbo Stuart Klipper
- A Country Ruled by Faith Garry Wills
- A Thousand Prayers Colm Tóibín
- After Katrina John Updike
- Amnesia in Australia Caroline Moorehead
- Angry in Afghanistan Ann Jones
- Blacks: Damned by the Bible David Brion Davis
- Branding in America Darryl Pinckney
- Capturing Carbon Mark Jaccard, reply by Tim Flannery
- Chinese Shadows Perry Link
- Correction The Editors
- Corrections The Editors
- Corrections The Editors
- Darwin and Spirituality: An Exchange Danis Rose, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- Defiant Iran Christopher de Bellaigue
- Disheartened Author Dai Qing, Nancy Yang Liu, Peter Rand, and Lawrence R. Sullivan
- Edgar Snow’s Alterations Jonathan Mirsky
- Edwin Muir’s Field David Wheatley
- Finding Ithaca Peter Green
- How Close to Catastrophe? Bill McKibben
- How Terrible Is It? Max Rodenbeck
- How to Skip the Constitution David Cole
- How to Understand the Economy Robert M. Solow
- Il Duce’s Brain William J. Connell
- Image Problem John Ashbery
- In Cheney’s Shadow Paul Starobin, reply by Joan Didion
- Inventing the ‘Liberal Republican’ Mind Edmund S. Morgan
- Irving Howe Memorial Lecture Morris Dickstein
- King Tony Andrew O’Hagan
- Lincoln at War David Bromwich
- Lost in Translation Burton Raffel, reply by P. N. Furbank
- Lost in Versailles Daniel Mendelsohn
- Margaret Atwood’s Tale Joyce Carol Oates
- McCarthy’s Forgotten Nemesis Norman Dorsen
- Michelangelo and the Etruscans James Hall, reply by Ingrid D. Rowland
- Minding the Brain John R. Searle
- One Hundred Intellectuals’ Letter of Appeal on the Shutdown of Century China Liu Xiaobo
- Parallel Lives Frank J. Sulloway
- Respect for Our Enemies Stephen P. Schwartz, reply by Freeman Dyson
- Romance April Bernard
- Selling the American Way John Brewer
- Sheffer Was American Gerald J. Oppenheimer
- Shut Down in China Perry Link and Maochun Yu
- Surprises of the Empire David Gilmour
- The ‘Dangerous Drugstore’ Thomas A. Dubbs, reply by Marcia Angell
- The ADL and Tony Judt: An Exchange Abraham H. Foxman and Myrna Shinbaum, reply by Mark Lilla and Richard Sennett
- The Adventures of Doris Lessing John Leonard
- The Attack on Human Rights Watch Aryeh Neier
- The Case of Tony Judt: An Open Letter to the ADL Mark Lilla and Richard Sennett
- The Devil in Africa Norman Rush
- The Elegist Charles Simic
- The Far Side of Fiction Michael Wood
- The Getty: For Better and Worse Martin Filler
- The Girl in the Woods Sarah Kerr
- The Good Soldier Joseph Lelyveld
- The Great Betrayal James M. McPherson
- The Jew Hater Robert O. Paxton
- The Jimmy Stewart Story Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Lives of Gore Larry McMurtry
- The Phenomenon Michael Tomasky
- The Plight of Christians in Iraq Eden Naby, reply by Peter W. Galbraith
- The Wealth of Loneliness Russell Baker
- The Worst of Times? Paul Kennedy
- True Confessions Diane Johnson
- V.A. Care Is Better Mitchell T. Rabkin
- Weimar Faces Ian Buruma
- What Fritz Haber Did H. Richard Levy
- What Happened at Oak Ridge Robert Palter, reply by Jeremy Bernstein
- Without Him, No Bill of Rights Gordon S. Wood
December
- A Far-Flung Correspondent Neal Ascherson
- Abraham Foxman and John Negroponte Leon Wieseltier and Franklin Foer, reply by The Editors
- Canada and the Caribou Stephan Fuller, reply by Peter Matthiessen
- Conspicuous Proliferation William H. McNeill
- Correction The Editors
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Case Wolfgang Schoellkopf, reply by Ian Buruma
- How Aid Can Work Jeffrey D. Sachs
- How Close to Catastrophe? Donald J. Boudreaux, reply by Bill McKibben
- Human Rights Watch and Israel: An Exchange Seymour Feshbach, reply by Aryeh Neier
- In the Heart of the Heartland Margaret Atwood
- Iraq: The War of the Imagination Mark Danner
- Is Capitalism Good for You? Alan Ryan
- Islam: The Russian Solution Orlando Figes
- Journey from ‘Nebraska’ Richard Dorment
- Killed by the Panic John Demos
- Komm Du, Du Letzter… Rainer Maria Rilke
- Letters from the Heights John Banville
- Master of the Natural Ingrid D. Rowland
- O Ister Anne Carson
- The Call of the Stallion Mark Ford
- The Enigma of Ariel Sharon Jonathan Freedland
- The Lamp in the Mausoleum Alison Lurie
- The Love of a Pessimist P. N. Furbank
- They Were in New York Aaron H. Esman, reply by Sue Halpern
- Translations of Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva Paul Schmidt