January
- ‘Amnesia in Australia’ Caroline Moorehead
- ‘How to Skip the Constitution’: An Exchange Richard Posner, reply by David Cole
- ‘The White Man’s Burden’ William Easterly
- A Case of Development Claire Messud
- A Mission to Convert H. Allen Orr
- Better Late Than Never Michael Tomasky
- Corrections The Editors
- Dante: The Supreme Realist Michael Dirda
- Democrats: The Big Surprise Elizabeth Drew
- Golden Boy Clive James
- Handing Over Jews Claude Cahn, Arthur Nádas, and Carl Djerassi, reply by Robert O. Paxton
- In the Shadow of Berlusconi Paul Ginsborg
- In the Space Between Words Cathleen Schine
- Inside the Time Machine Luc Sante
- Invitation to a Steak-Fry Michael Tomasky
- Looking at Ourselves David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman
- Memoirs of the Artist Joyce Carol Oates
- On Clifford Geertz: Field Notes from the Classroom Robert Darnton
- Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees John Ashbery
- The CIA’s Secret Torture Raymond Bonner
- The End Zbigniew Herbert, translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles
- The Genius of Bad News Tim Parks
- The Perils of Antoinette Hilary Mantel
- What About the Iraqis? Christian Caryl
- Wrong Values Mark Collins, reply by Robert M. Solow
February
- ‘The Not Returning Part of It’ Janet Malcolm
- A Feast of Shadows John Leonard
- AIDS and the Power of Women Helen Epstein and Julia Kim
- After the Apocalypse Michael Chabon
- At the Gandhi Café Sue Halpern
- Corrections The Editors
- Eastwood’s War Ian Buruma
- Is the UN Doomed? Tony Judt
- It Wasn’t Just Morale Robert O. Paxton
- Kofi Annan’s Last Speech on the Middle East to the Security Council Kofi Annan
- Manifest Destiny: A New Direction for America William Pfaff
- No Exit Joseph Lelyveld
- On the Holocaust Conference Sponsored by the Government of Iran Gholam Reza Afkhami
- Portrait of the Monster as a Young Artist J. M. Coetzee
- The Case of E.P. Thompson Edward Countryman, reply by Tony Judt
- The Convert Christopher Benfey
- The King’s Cross? Leo Steinberg, reply by Ingrid D. Rowland
- The One and Only Book Christopher de Hamel
- Treasures of Vanity Graham Robb
- What Is a Tree? Tim Flannery
- Who Was Milton Friedman? Paul Krugman
March
- ‘The God Delusion’ Daniel C. Dennett, reply by H. Allen Orr
- ‘The Old Way’ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, reply by Melvin Konner
- ‘Who Was Milton Friedman?’ Anna J. Schwartz and Edward Nelson, reply by Paul Krugman
- ‘Words, Words, Words’ Anne Barton
- A Further Sea Meghan O’Rourke
- At the Feet of Ezra Pound Eliot Weinberger
- Big Gamble in Rwanda Stephen Kinzer
- Black Wisdom Darryl Pinckney
- Brilliance, Silence, Courage Joyce Carol Oates
- Did the Revolution Have to Fail? István Deák
- Dim Beginnings Melvin Konner
- Disaster: From Suez to Iraq Brian Urquhart
- Dressing for Success Ian Buruma
- Early Christian Impresarios Eamon Duffy
- Et Tu, Cicero? Mary Beard
- Executioner Songs John Banville
- Gods of the Mall Christian Caryl
- Gorgeously Minimal Jennifer Schuessler
- Historians Take a Stand Alan Dawley and over 150 other historians
- How Not to Deal with North Korea Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein
- How to Inherit IQ: An Exchange Jack Kaplan, reply by Frank J. Sulloway
- Hurry Up Please It’s Time Jason Epstein
- Jimmy Carter and Apartheid Joseph Lelyveld
- Notes from the Underworld Edward T. Oakes
- Open the JFK Files! Jefferson Morley
- Palestinians: The Crisis in Medical Care Richard Horton
- Power Portraits Richard Dorment
- Queries Mark DeVoto, Fred R. Shapiro, and Lucy K. Marks
- Reading Milosz Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
- Reconstructing Ronald Reagan Russell Baker
- Return of the Master Tim Parks
- Scandals of Higher Education Andrew Delbanco
- Subject: Brodsky Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
- Thailand: All the King’s Men Ian Buruma
- Thanks for the Memory Amos Elon
- The Defense of Torture David Luban
- The Democratic Eye Helen Vendler
- The Democrats Michael Tomasky
- The Freedom Tower Václav Havel, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
- The Heroine of Hill Top Farm John Lanchester
- The Master Builder Sanford Schwartz
- The Odd Couple Julian Barnes
- The Report of Captain Secher Robert Secher
- The Surge Peter W. Galbraith
- The Triumph of Turgenev Diane Johnson
- The Uncontainable Kurds Christopher de Bellaigue
- The Way We Live Now Michael Dirda
- The Women of Pedro Almodóvar Daniel Mendelsohn
- Three Ways of Looking at Thomas Eakins Christopher Benfey
- Translating Rilke: An Exchange Richard Stern and John Friedmann, reply by John Banville
- Warning on Warming Bill McKibben
- What Did He Really Think About Race? James M. McPherson
- What Would Hannah Say? Jeremy Waldron
- When Is a Building Beautiful? Alison Lurie
- When Night Forgets to Fall Charles Simic
April
- ‘Dutch’ Edmund Morris, reply by Russell Baker
- ‘Let Virgil Be Virgil’ Hayden N. Pelliccia
- ‘Scandals of Higher Education’: An Exchange Henry Wasser, Frank Wolf, and Lawrence Blum, reply by Andrew Delbanco
- A Capacity for Impudence P. N. Furbank
- A Different Kind of Courage Charles Taylor
- A Highly Paradoxical Historian Keith Thomas
- A Nuclear Way Forward Hugh Thomas
- A Scandal at the Villa Paradiso John Gross
- A Track All His Own Sanford Schwartz
- Brush with Genius Andrew Butterfield
- Corrections The Editors
- Cracks in the House of Rove Jonathan Raban
- Doom and Thomas Hardy Stanley Marcus, reply by Tim Parks
- Double-Cross in the Congo William Finnegan
- H.P. Lovecraft and ‘Tsathoggua’ Michael Cisco
- Half the Fun Ian MacDougall, reply by Martin Filler
- Happy Birthday! William Pfaff
- Hard Truth About Palestine Amos Elon
- Hero of Birdland John Terborgh
- How the Winds Changed History William H. McNeill
- Humphrey Wrote It Tony Judt
- Insight Without Anger Hilary Mantel
- Justice for Warriors Taylor Branch
- Kingsley Amis and ‘The Great Terror’ Robert Conquest
- Learning to Love Colm Tóibín
- Lincoln & Race Michael Lind, reply by James M. McPherson
- Milton Friedman in China Bertrand Horwitz, reply by Paul Krugman
- Muslims in the Dark Pankaj Mishra
- On Israel, America and AIPAC George Soros
- Our Shaky Beginnings Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan
- Plain Tales from British India William Dalrymple
- Query J. Michael Lennon
- Reagan and Aids Larry Kramer
- Shakespeare and the Uses of Power Stephen Greenblatt
- Singing ‘Volver’ Gene H. Bell-Villada, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Sorry Avishai Margalit
- Swans’ Way Pico Iyer
- The American Prison Nightmare Jason DeParle
- The Art of Vengeance Joyce Carol Oates
- The Evangelical Surprise Frances FitzGerald
- The House of Edith Edmund White
- The Hungarian Revolution: An Exchange Geza Jeszenszky and William Raymond Smith, reply by István Deák
- The Lessons of Spinoza Avishai Margalit
- The Malibu Decameron Diane Johnson
- The Outsourcer’s Apprentice Prudence Crowther
- The Passionate Partnership Richard Holmes
- The Philosophy of 3 AM Charles Simic
- The Poor Man’s Atomic Bomb Daniel J. Kevles
- The Unclosed Circle Sarah Kerr
- Turning the Philby Case on Its Head Phillip Knightley
- Unkind to Arendt Walter Laqueur, reply by Jeremy Waldron
- Why They Believed in Stalin Aileen Kelly
May
- ‘Bad Behavior’ & Kingsley Amis David Lodge
- ‘Independent Jewish Voices’ Lisa Appignanesi, Ellen Dahrendorf, Geoffrey Bindman, Uri Fruchtmann, and David J. Goldberg, et al.
- ‘Jimmy Carter & Apartheid’ William H. Slavick
- ‘On Israel, America, and AIPAC’ Alvin H. Rosenfeld, reply by George Soros
- ‘Scandals of Higher Education’ J.J. Stevenson III and Cass Cliatt, reply by Andrew Delbanco
- ‘The Shakespeare Wars’ Ron Rosenbaum, reply by Anne Barton
- A Letter on Rape in Prisons David Kaiser, reply by Jason DeParle
- An Exchange on Shakespeare & Power Richard Strier, reply by Stephen Greenblatt
- Are We Born Moral? John Gray
- Corrections The Editors
- Corrections The Editors
- Doggy Affections Jennifer Schuessler
- Duty Daniel Mendelsohn
- Francis Bacon & the Frozen Chicken Timothy Beecroft, reply by Freeman Dyson
- Frankie Laine (1913–2007) John Updike
- Genius in Concrete Witold Rybczynski
- Hatred in the Common Room David Leverenz
- He Changed the New World David Brion Davis
- How Democrats Should Talk Michael Tomasky
- Howling from the Sidelines Fintan O’Toole
- India’s Great Tragedy Brian Urquhart
- Iraq: The Question Rory Stewart
- Keeping Mum about ‘No First Use’ Milton Leitenberg, reply by Daniel J. Kevles
- Prokofiev Makes His Moves Orlando Figes
- Rwanda: An Exchange Elliott Green and Everard O’Donnell, reply by Stephen Kinzer
- Stoppard’s Romance Anthony Grafton
- Storms Over the Novel Hermione Lee
- Temperamental Justice Jeremy Waldron
- The Court & Abortion: Worse Than You Think Ronald Dworkin
- The Cunning of Francis Bacon Julian Bell
- The Drama of Sarah Bernhardt Robert Gottlieb
- The Dream of Scientific Brotherhood Freeman Dyson
- The Mass Murder They Still Deny Michael Oren
- The Pleasures of Casanova Michael Dirda
- The Reader in the Ring David Margolick
- The Road from Mecca Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
- The Stasi on Our Minds Timothy Garton Ash
- The UN to the Rescue? Cornelius F. Murphy Jr.
- The War in Washington Elizabeth Drew
- Václav vs. Václav Václav Havel, translated from the Czech and annotated by Paul Wilson
- We Are All Romans Now Garry Wills
- What’s Wrong with Doctors Richard Horton
- Winning a Gamble with Communism Robert Skidelsky
- Wretched of the Earth Nicholas D. Kristof
June
- ‘A New Kind of Mongrel Fiction’ Pico Iyer
- ‘Did the Revolution Have to Fail?’: An Exchange Norman Birnbaum, reply by István Deák
- ‘We Are All Romans Now’ Malcolm Bell III, reply by Garry Wills
- A Hero of Our Time Michael Kimmelman
- Blind Rage Clancy Sigal
- Bunner & the Sisters Linda Selman, reply by Edmund White
- Bush’s Amazing Achievement Jonathan Freedland
- Death Under the Tsar Robert Cottrell
- Death by the Numbers Helen Epstein
- English Abolition: The Movie Adam Hochschild
- Fascinating Narcissism Ian Buruma
- His Inner Cat Sarah Boxer
- How to Hear Bernhardt James A. Heffernan
- Impasse in India Pankaj Mishra
- In Braque’s Studio John Golding
- In His Nightmare City Graham Robb
- In Sarkoland William Pfaff
- Iris Murdoch’s Holy Fool Peter J. Conradi, reply by Jonathan Raban
- Lebanon’s Agony Max Rodenbeck
- Love & Heresy in John Donne John Carey
- Meshuga Alaska John Leonard
- Mission to Mao Roderick MacFarquhar
- Mr. Casaubon in America Mark Lilla
- Racing Against Reality Andrew O’Hagan
- Reading the Founders’ Minds Gordon S. Wood
- Release Haleh Esfandiari
- Release Kian Tajbakhsh! Aryeh Neier
- The Art of Risk G.W. Bowersock
- The Artist Historian Willibald Sauerländer
- The Dream of Catholic China Jonathan D. Spence
- The Family Pinfold John Banville
- The Hogarth Show Sanford Schwartz
- The Lost Jewish Culture Harold Bloom
- The Other Einstein Lee Smolin
- The Palestinian Medical Crisis: An Exchange Yair Amikam, reply by Richard Horton
- The Polish Witch-Hunt Adam Michnik , translated from the Polish by Irena Grudzinska Gross and Olga Amsterdamska
- The Power of the Prickly Pear Michael Wood
- The Sharpest Thorn Frank Kermode
- The Specter Haunting Your Office James Lardner
- The Visible Man Darryl Pinckney
- The Women and the Gods Peter Green
- Was He Swiss? Robert Middleton
- We’re Living on Corn! Tim Flannery
- When in Rome Alan Hollinghurst
July
- ‘The Stasi on Our Minds’: An Exchange Harvey Cox and Jonathan Steele, reply by Timothy Garton Ash
- A Codex W.S. Merwin
- An American Hero Garry Wills
- Can We Know Her? Michael Tomasky
- Correction The Editors
- Creating ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ Colm Tóibín
- Diary of a Bad Year J. M. Coetzee
- Getting Away With Murder Helen Epstein
- Herzog and His Heroes Ian Buruma
- How To Read Elfriede Jelinek Tim Parks
- It Happened One Night Al Alvarez
- Lest We Forget Joyce Carol Oates
- Our Biotech Future Freeman Dyson
- Putin Strikes Again Jamey Gambrell
- Serra’s Triumph John Updike
- The Book of Heaven Patricia Storace
- The Fate of a Demon Hilary Mantel
- The Grand Inquisitors David Cole
- The Great Bolaño Francisco Goldman
- The Miracle Woman Caleb Crain
- The Question of Empire Niall Ferguson, reply by William Dalrymple
- The Venetian Treasure Hunt William Dalrymple
- What If? Anita Desai
- What Tenet Knew Thomas Powers
- When Life Caught Up With Him Claire Messud
August
- ‘The Scandal of Empire’ Nicholas B. Dirks, reply by William Dalrymple
- ‘What’s Wrong with Doctors’ Lucien R. Karhausen and Jane M. Jordan
- A Northern New Jersey of the Mind Geoffrey O’Brien
- A Religion for Darwinians? H. Allen Orr
- Bin Laden and the CIA Jonathan Freedland
- Correction The Editors
- Cunning Claude Monet Robert L. Herbert
- Editing ‘The Godfather’ Walter Murch
- Einstein: An Exchange Jeremy Bernstein, reply by Lee Smolin
- Goodbye to Newspapers? Russell Baker
- How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa William Easterly
- Iraq: The Way to Go Peter W. Galbraith
- No to US Atrocities William S. McFeely
- Notes on Susan Eliot Weinberger
- On the Town Daniel Mendelsohn
- Our Battle with Britain Max Hastings
- Paris: The Black Maestro Darryl Pinckney
- Penelope Gilliatt’s Stories Frank Solomon
- Poverty: An Exchange Diego Sanchez Ancochea and Elizabeth Gould, reply by Nicholas D. Kristof
- Sighting the Stream Sandra Tropp
- The Credo of a Great Reporter Colin Thubron
- The Islamic Optimist Malise Ruthven
- The Revenge of the Trojan Women Steven Burch, reply by G.W. Bowersock
- The Road from Danzig Timothy Garton Ash
- The Shadow Man Brad Leithauser
- They’re Micromanaging Your Every Move Simon Head
- Wake Up and Dream Robert Gottlieb
September
- ‘Lebanon’s Agony’ Menachem Kellner, reply by Max Rodenbeck
- ‘Notes on Susan’: An Exchange Brad Leithauser, Suzanne Jill Levine, James Quandi, and Jane Farrell, reply by Eliot Weinberger
- ‘Our Biotech Future’: An Exchange Wendell Berry, James P. Herman, and Christopher B. Michael, reply by Freeman Dyson
- A Very Satisfied Survivor Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan
- Citizen Gore Michael Tomasky
- Correction The Editors
- Evening Man Frederick Seidel
- His Toughness Problem—and Ours Ian Buruma
- How You Think Colin McGinn
- Ice Capades Christian Caryl
- Lit-Flicks Robert Gottlieb
- Live at the New York Public Library Paul Holdengräber
- Magic Show Sanford Schwartz
- Master Builders Robert Hughes
- Mighty Prussia: Rise and Fall R.J.W. Evans
- Night Watchman Charles Simic
- Pandora’s Click Janet Malcolm
- Pottery Alison Lurie
- S & M at the Poles Al Alvarez
- Shall We Dance? William H. McNeill
- The Awkward Age Lorrie Moore
- The Dreams of Allen Ginsberg Mark Ford
- The Immigration Charade Christopher Jencks
- The Passion of Pasolini Nathaniel Rich
- The Reason Why Bob Guldin, reply by Thomas Powers
- The Supreme Court Phalanx Ronald Dworkin
- What Was Africa to Them? Kwame Anthony Appiah
October
- ‘How to Inherit IQ’: The Fetal Question Dan Agin, reply by Frank J. Sulloway
- ‘How to Read Elfriede Jelinek’: An Exchange Gitta Honegger, reply by Tim Parks
- ‘Illusions’ of the Founders Lawrence Goldstone, reply by Gordon S. Wood
- ‘Our Biotech Future’ Raymond A. Firestone, reply by Freeman Dyson
- A Schism among Bison Farmers Julie North Chelminski, reply by Tim Flannery
- Are Diplomats Necessary? Brian Urquhart
- Beer & Poverty William P. Mitchell, reply by Nicholas D. Kristof
- Can Anyone Stop It? Bill McKibben
- Chinese Shadows François Hauter
- Cruel Allied Occupiers Patricia Meehan
- Dolores in the East End Sheila Hillier
- Empson: Argufying Against Mufflement John Gross
- From the Homicidal to the Ecstatic Helen Vendler
- Good War Gone Bad Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein
- How Hitler Could Have Won Anne Applebaum
- In the Terror House of Mirrors Sarah Kerr
- Is This Torture Necessary? Jeremy Waldron
- Local Hero Sanford Schwartz
- Lotto for Learning? Daniel Wilsher, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- My Girls Robin Robertson
- Our Favorite Bandit Larry McMurtry
- Rome: The Marvels and the Menace Ingrid D. Rowland
- Sons and Brothers Edmund White
- The Best Book on Mozart Charles Rosen
- The Birth of Portnoy Mark Keshishian
- The Cat Went Out for Good Charles Simic
- The Conservative Betrayed Russell Baker
- The Fever Dream of Mrs. Stowe David Bromwich
- The Fight for Slavery in California James M. McPherson
- The Golden Age at Its Best Julian Bell
- The Hidden Master of the Human Comedy Luc Sante
- The Last Act Michael Kimmelman
- The Queen of the Quagmire Rory Stewart
- The Real E-You Mitchel L. Galishoff
- The Turning Point Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- The Victor? Peter W. Galbraith
- They’d Much Rather Be Rich Andrew Hacker
- Tintoretto & Hogarth in Seattle The Editors
- Turkey at the Turning Point? Christopher de Bellaigue
- Vietnam: Portraits from a Tragedy Norman Rush
- Warsaw Underground Eva Hoffman
- Who Is Gordon Brown? Jonathan Freedland
- Women and Children for Sale Caroline Moorehead
- Working for the Revolution Freeman Dyson
November
- ‘Are Diplomats Necessary?’ Carne Ross, reply by Brian Urquhart
- ‘Failure Risks Devastating Consequences’ Zbigniew Brzezinski, Thomas R. Pickering, Lee Hamilton, Carla Hills, and Nancy Kassebaum-Baker, et al.
- ‘His Toughness Problem—and Ours’: An Exchange Paul Berman, reply by Ian Buruma
- ‘Shall We Dance?’ Barbara Ehrenreich, reply by William H. McNeill
- ‘Survival of the Richest’? Robert M. Solow
- ‘The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam’ Mark Danner
- ‘They’d Much Rather Be Rich’ Avner Offer, reply by Andrew Hacker
- Alaska: Big Oil and the Inupiat-Americans Peter Matthiessen
- China’s Area of Darkness Jonathan Mirsky
- Conference on Disasters The Editors
- Corbu’s Condo Claude Gintz
- Corrections The Editors
- Diane Keaton on Photography Larry McMurtry
- Diving Robin Robertson
- Do They Crave War? Neal Ascherson
- Einstein & Bohr Gino Segrè
- Election Fever Michael Tomasky
- Epigram by Callimachus, 310–240 BCE translated by Edmund Keeley
- FDR & the Depression: The Big Debate Benjamin M. Friedman
- Gertrude Bell Peter Shapiro The Editors
- Greek and Roman Statuary Billy Collins
- Have Illegals Paid for Iraq? Jerome W. Anderson, reply by Christopher Jencks
- How They Won Max Hastings
- How to Understand Islam Malise Ruthven
- In Sicilian Shadows Francine Prose
- Inside the Panic Robert O. Paxton
- Irving Howe Lecture Morris Dickstein
- Locked in the Writer’s Room Colin Thubron
- Looking for ‘Lucia’ Daniel Mendelsohn
- Looking for the Emperor Mary Beard
- Mommie Dearest Jennifer Schuessler
- Rise of a Gangster Orlando Figes
- Stroking Stephen Greenblatt
- The Adventures of Arthur Joseph Lelyveld
- The Death of the Good Bishop Aryeh Neier
- The Green vs. the Brown Amazon John Terborgh
- The In-Between Woman Cathleen Schine
- The Korean War: An Exchange Bruce Cumings and Francis M. Bator, reply by Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein
- The Loveliest Doors Garry Wills
- The Most Magnificent Muslims William Dalrymple
- The Partisan Michael Tomasky
- The Poems of Pasolini Norman MacAfee, reply by Nathaniel Rich
- The Purest of Styles John Updike
- The Source of the Stream William C. Waterhouse
- The Trouble with Happiness Al Alvarez
- The US and the Plight of the Iranians Akbar Ganji
- The Unconscionable War Robert Stone
- Tocqueville: The Flaws of Genius Alan Ryan
- Tolstoy’s Real Hero Orlando Figes
- Was Spain So Bad? Gabriel Tortella
- What America Started Gordon S. Wood
- What Haunted Eugene O’Neill? Fintan O’Toole
- Who Will Praise the Lord? Harold Bloom
- Why Putin Wins Sergei Kovalev
December
- ‘Ravished by Oranges’ Simon Leys
- ‘The Death of the Good Bishop’ Francisco Goldman, reply by Aryeh Neier
- ‘The Green vs. the Brown Amazon’: An Exchange Mark London, reply by John Terborgh
- ‘The Supreme Court Phalanx’: An Exchange Charles Fried and James Allan, reply by Ronald Dworkin
- A Bright Voice from a Dark Place John Banville
- A Great Twentieth-Century Poet Charles Simic
- A Moral Witness to the ‘Intricate Machine’ Avishai Margalit
- At Home in Paradise Madison Smartt Bell
- At the Heart of the Terror Colin Jones
- Auden and God Edward Mendelson
- Clarifications The Editors
- Clarifications The Editors
- Dark Victories Garry Wills
- East vs. West: The First Round Jasper Griffin
- From the Other Shore Elaine Blair
- Gertrude Bell Disliked Him Intensely Victor Winstone
- Gold & Geld John Updike
- Immoral Rearmament Richard J. Evans
- In the Pit of Africa Joshua Hammer
- Iraq: The Hidden Human Costs Michael Massing
- JFK’s Plans to Withdraw James K. Galbraith
- Just Before Jorie Graham
- Keaton’s Own Lens Larry McMurtry and Janet Malcolm
- More News from Rome Ingrid D. Rowland
- Nathan, Farewell Sarah Kerr
- Norman Mailer (1923–2007) Jason Epstein
- Recreating Picasso Andrew Butterfield
- Talking Back to Prozac Frederick C. Crews
- The Amazing Wanderer Christian Caryl
- The Court: How ‘So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much’ Anthony Lewis
- The Gates of Paradise Garry Wills
- The Knight of Sunset Boulevard Pico Iyer
- The Man Behind the Torture David Cole
- The New Montenegro: The State That Was Not a State Noel Malcolm
- The Renegade Charles Simic
- The Restless Conqueror David Gilmour
- The Shadow of Rose Colm Tóibín
- The Shock of Intrusion Christopher Benfey
- The Wand of the Enchanter Michael Dirda
- The Wrecking Ball of Innovation Tony Judt
- Thirsty Dragon at the Olympics Dai Qing
- This Page Is a Cloud Derek Walcott
- Wars Over the Printed Word Frank Kermode
- What Mozart Meant: An Exchange Robert L. Marshall, reply by Charles Rosen
- Where Wonders Await Us Tim Flannery
- Who Are ‘The French’? P. N. Furbank
- Who Is Sarkozy? William Pfaff
- Will Slower Population Growth Stop Global Warming? Allen Schill, reply by Bill McKibben