- ‘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