January
February
March
- ‘The Dear Old Year’
Jonathan Bennett
- A Journey Inside the Brain
Oliver Sacks
- A New Way to Think About Eating
Jason Epstein
- A Possibly Super Problem
Michael Tomasky
- A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff
Thomas R. Pickering, William Luers, and Jim Walsh
- A Successful Defiance
Christopher Ricks
- Broad-Minded Museum
Martin Filler
- By Nature
John Hollander
- Cancer: Malignant Maneuvers
Richard Horton
- Chairman Greenspan’s Legacy
Benjamin M. Friedman
- Discovering the Dutch Mountains
David R. Slavitt
- Dreams from Obama
Darryl Pinckney
- First Walk After Cancer
Joshua Weiner
- Hail Caesar!
David Margolick
- Hammersmith Winter
Robin Robertson
- He Went Against the Peace Pipe
Larry McMurtry
- In Darkest Montenegro
Paul Hockenos and Jenni Winterhagen, reply by Noel Malcolm
- In Defense of Robert Malley
Dennis Ross, Mickey Bergman, Samuel Berger, Martin Indyk, and Daniel C. Kurtzer, et al.
- Look Homeward, Angel
J. M. Coetzee
- Nabokov Wasn’t There
B. J. Layman
- One Angry Man
Brian Urquhart
- Portrait of a Sissy
Edmund White
- Prozac and Sexual Desire
Helen E. Fisher and J. Anderson Thomson Jr.
- Snatched from the Air
Helen Vendler
- Statements on ‘A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff’
Chuck Hagel and Dianne Feinstein
- The Appeal of Obama
Norman Ravitch, reply by Darryl Pinckney
- The Artist and the Upper Class
Jennifer Schuessler
- The Call of the Wild
Cathleen Schine
- The Charms of Wikipedia
Nicholson Baker
- The Genetic Adventurer
H. Allen Orr
- The Greatest Threat to Us All
Joseph Cirincione
- The Musical Mystery
Colin McGinn
- The Nerve and the Will
Sanford Schwartz
- The Pens of the Musketeer
Graham Robb
- The Private Art of Early Christians
Peter Brown
- The Specter Haunting Old Age
Jeff Madrick
- The Unpacific Pacific
George Feifer, reply by Christopher Benfey
- The Way to All Flesh
Julian Bell
- They Chose Freedom
James M. McPherson
- Those Last Moments
Mark Strand
- Vichy vs. the Nazis
Robert O. Paxton
- When Is It Right to Invade?
Jeremy Waldron
April
- ‘A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff’: An Exchange
Jeremy Bernstein, reply by Thomas R. Pickering, William Luers, and Jim Walsh
- A Great American Visionary
Colm Tóibín
- A New Deal in Pakistan
William Dalrymple
- A Patriot for Pétain?
Robert L. Miller, reply by Robert O. Paxton
- A World of Saints and Gangsters
Geoffrey O’Brien
- Are You Happy?
Sue Halpern
- Big Ideas for a New President
Edward Mortimer
- Condi and the Boys
Russell Baker
- Dark Victories
James M. McPherson
- Dresden and the ‘Anglo-American Terror Raid’
Robert Avery
- Euphemism and American Violence
David Bromwich
- Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia
Robert Darnton
- Forever Guantánamo
Raymond Bonner
- Glassed In
Brad Leithauser
- Gloomy About Globalization
Robert Skidelsky
- He Would Have Changed China
Perry Link
- Homage to What’s-His-Name
Charles Wright
- How Yeats Did It
Mark Ford
- Infiltrating the Enemy of the Mind
Jay Neugeboren
- Iran & the Bomb: An Exchange
Bennett Ramberg, Geoffrey Forden, and John Thomson, reply by Thomas R. Pickering and William Luers, et al.
- Italy: The Crooks in Control
Alexander Stille
- Lovable in Parts
Richard Dorment
- Ma, Ma Where’s My Pa?
Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
- Man Slaughters Man
William H. McNeill
- Mistress Shakespeare
Stanley Wells
- Molehill Politics
Elizabeth Drew
- The Fantasy Family
Tim Parks
- The Magical Painting of Poussin
Andrew Butterfield
- The Making of John Rechy
Edmund White
- The Passionate Egoist
Michael Wood
- The Rescue of John Steinbeck
Robert Gottlieb
- The Right-Wing Christians
Andrew Delbanco
- The Troubled Birth of Kosovo
Charles Simic
- The Voice of the Stones
Peter Brown
- The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?
Michael Massing
- The Wikipedia Dump
Earle Martin
- The World’s Last Novel
John Banville
- Up Against ‘the Finest Soldiers in the World’
Max Hastings
- Was it
Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
May
- ‘Move Closer, Please’
Caleb Crain
- ‘Something Marvellous to Tell’
John Gross
- ‘The End of Heaven’
David Lodge
- ‘The Enemy of the Mind’: An Exchange
Herbert Schreier and Joaquim Pijoan, reply by Jay Neugeboren
- ‘The First Great Pandemic in History’
Eamon Duffy
- ‘The Problem of Evil’: An Exchange
Marat Grinberg, reply by Tony Judt
- A ‘Mind in Seven Places’
Charles Simic
- Among the Exiles
Charles Simic
- An Epic of the Everglades
Michael Dirda
- Branded By Pharma
Andrew Branch
- Churchill and His Myths
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- Displaced Passions
Sarah Kerr
- Ezra Conquers London
Frank Kermode
- Falling Stars
Robert Gottlieb
- Free Speech & the Menace of Hysteria
Jeremy Waldron
- Giddy & Malevolent
Francine Prose
- Hope for Kosovo
Quintin Hoare, reply by Charles Simic
- How to Cover an Election
Frank Rich
- In Priceland
Michael Chabon
- In The Name of the Father
Michael McGiffert
- In the Heart of Darkness
Jonathan Mirsky
- Into the Lion’s Den
Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
- Iraq: Will We Ever Get Out?
Thomas Powers
- Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful
William Dalrymple
- Looking for Naipaul
Joseph Lelyveld
- Old Globe
Brad Leithauser
- On the Edge
Al Alvarez
- Our Socially Gifted Cousins
A.C. Grayling
- Playing in Time
Joseph Kerman
- Praying with the Founders
Gordon S. Wood
- Queens of the Web
Tim Flannery
- The Arab Spring, and After
Max Rodenbeck
- The Big Food Menace
Wendell Berry, reply by Jason Epstein
- The Case for Judas, Continued
Harold W. Attridge
- The Conquering Indians
Larry McMurtry
- The Cruelest War
Ian Buruma
- The Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros
George Soros and Judy Woodruff
- The Girl in the Tower
Alison Lurie
- The Great Marathon Man
Peter Green
- The Hulls of White Yachts
Derek Walcott
- The I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence
Jeremy J. Stone
- The Lovers
Charles Simic
- The Market for Happiness
Paul Epstein
- The Milestone
Michael Ware, Rick Sanchez, and Martha Zoller
- The Mystery of the Ring
Joyce Carol Oates
- The Nerve of Frida Kahlo
Sanford Schwartz
- The Quest of Michel de Certeau
Natalie Zemon Davis
- The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists
Malise Ruthven
- The Terror President
Anthony Lewis
- The Truth About Putin and Medvedev
Amy Knight
- Through the Tweed
Robin Robertson
- Thunder from Tibet
Robert Barnett
- Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard
André Glucksmann, Václav Havel, Yohei Sasakawa, El Hassan Bin Talal, and Frederik Willem de Klerk, et al.
- Travesty in Michigan
Ruth Zweifler, reply by Elizabeth Drew
- Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation, by Some Chinese Intellectuals
Wang Lixiong
- Two Speeches on Race
Garry Wills
- What Have We Learned, If Anything?
Tony Judt
- Where Shall the Preaching Stop?
Kent Greenawalt
- Will They Accept Kosovo?
Nicolaas H. Biegman, reply by Charles Simic
- Women Artists Win!
Ingrid D. Rowland
- Youth!
Joyce Carol Oates
June
July
- A Hidden Haitian World
Madison Smartt Bell
- A Tale of Two Empires
Linda Colley
- After Five Years
Adam Michnik and Janos Kis
- Blood Relations
Claire Messud
- Combat in the North Gallery
Celina Fox
- Corrections
The Editors
- Embedded in Iraq
Michael Massing
- Enchanted & Ominous
Sanford Schwartz
- F. Kafka, Everyman
Zadie Smith
- Falling Hawks
Jonathan Freedland
- From ‘To Siberia’
Per Petterson
- From ‘Wolf Hall’
Hilary Mantel
- Google Without Pix
Marc Aronson, reply by Robert Darnton
- How He Sees It Now
Jonathan Mirsky
- In the Night Kitchen
Stephen Greenblatt
- Iran: The Threat
Thomas Powers
- Isn’t It Funny?
Mary Beard
- Not So Dangerous Liaisons
Russell Baker
- Obama & the Black Church
Darryl Pinckney
- Please Release the Chinese Writers in Prison!
Larry McMurtry, Alison Lurie, Toni Morrison, Paul Auster, and Cornel West, et al.
- Rapunzel, Parsley & Pregnancy
Marina Warner
- The Brief Life of a Molecule
D. A. Pratt, reply by Freeman Dyson
- The Genius of Péter Nádas
Deborah Eisenberg
- What to do About Hate Speech?
Perry Link, reply by Jeremy Waldron
- Who Embroidered the Bayeux Tapestry?
Ingrid D. Rowland and Jean Mallinson
August
September
October
- ‘In Love with Duras’
Jean Vallier, reply by Edmund White
- ‘The Devastation of Iraq’
Charles Ellwood Jones, reply by Hugh Eakin
- A Case of Intellectual Independence
Jonathan Freedland
- A New Bank to Save Our Infrastructure
Felix G. Rohatyn and Everett Ehrlich
- A New, Political Saint Paul?
Mark Lilla
- A Rescue of Religion
John Gray
- A Wee Irish Suite
John Updike
- Back to Basics
Julian Bell
- Correction
The Editors
- Daring and Disturbing
Sanford Schwartz
- Evelyn Waugh Revisited
Daniel Mendelsohn
- Fabrication & Bucky Fuller
Martin Filler
- From a Mansion Near Tora Bora
Pankaj Mishra
- Georgia, the US, and the Balance of Power: An Exchange
Daniel Fried, reply by George Friedman
- He Foresaw the End of an Era
John Cassidy
- How Long Will They Stay?
Robert M. May , reply by Freeman Dyson
- In Rough Country
Joyce Carol Oates
- Is This a ‘Victory’?
Peter W. Galbraith
- It Didn’t End
David Harland , reply by Samantha Power
- J.G. Ballard: The Glow of the Prophet
Diane Johnson
- James Baldwin & Barack Obama
Colm Tóibín
- Jefferson’s Concubine
Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan
- John & Sarah in St. Paul
Joseph Lelyveld
- Kafka’s Unreliable Friend
Mark Harman
- Keeper of the Jewels
Robert Gottlieb
- Laughable and Tragic
Anne Applebaum
- Marco Polo Goes to Gorgeous Xanadu
Colin Thubron
- Martyred by Monsters
Daniel J. Kevles
- Not a Psychiatrist
Kay Redfield Jamison
- Obama & the Conquest of Denver
Michael Chabon
- Our Nights Chez Rohmer
Geoffrey O’Brien
- Rembrandt & The Jews
Steven Nadler , reply by Benjamin Moser
- Royal Flush
Pico Iyer
- Sleeping Soldiers
Henri Cole
- Struggle for the Islands
Freeman Dyson
- Summer Reading
John Ashbery
- The Egyptian Connection
William Dalrymple
- The International Crooks Now in Power
Joshua Hammer
- The Most Evil Emperor
Max Hastings
- The Nicest Boy in the World
Charles Simic
- The Other Theodora
Nicholas McGegan, reply by G.W. Bowersock
- The Patient Talks Back
Diane Johnson and John F. Murray M.D.
- The Torch of Karl Kraus
Adam Kirsch
- They Soared Above the Din
James Oakes
- What Happened to the American Empire?
Alan Ryan
- You Can’t Take It with You
Frank Kermode
November
- ‘As Good as Great Poetry Gets’
Daniel Mendelsohn
- ‘But They Burned Giordano Bruno!’
Anthony Grafton
- ‘Official American Sadism’
David J.R. Frakt, reply by Anthony Lewis
- ‘Without God’: An Exchange
Bob Lockner, David S. Cunningham, Edward Castner, and Reverend Blayney Colmore, reply by Steven Weinberg
- A Challenge to the Free Market
Benjamin M. Friedman
- A Fateful Election
Garry Wills, Ronald Dworkin, Timothy Garton Ash, Thomas Powers, and Andrew Delbanco, et al.
- A Field Guide to the Birders
Robert O. Paxton
- Arab Dreams of Ruling Europe
Judith Herrin
- At Gull Pond
Reuel Wilson
- Back Roads
Barry Goldensohn
- Can We Believe General Karl Wolff?
Dan Kurzman , reply by István Deák
- China’s Golden Age
Eliot Weinberger
- Credit for Bucky’s Co-Worker
John H. Gilchrist, reply by Martin Filler
- Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers
Oliver Sacks
- Episode
John Ashbery
- Fishing in the Dead Sea
Colin Thubron
- George Inness in Montclair
Patterson Sims and Gail Stavitsky
- Georgia: The Ignored History
Robert English
- Green Fantasia
Bill McKibben
- How Muslims Made Europe
Kwame Anthony Appiah
- How They Blew Up the L.A. Times
Russell Baker
- Hugo Chávez Versus Human Rights
Jose Miguel Vivanco and Daniel Wilkinson
- In Defense of Free Inquiry
Arien Mack
- In a London of Infinite Possibilities
Neal Ascherson
- Irène Némirovsky: The Dogs & the Wolves
J. M. Coetzee
- Keen on Swedenborg
Richard Lines
- McCain, Obama, and the National Health
Arnold Relman
- Myres: Alexandria in 340 AD
Constantine Cavafy, translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Obama & Sweet Potato Pie
Mark Danner
- Oliver Sacks in Orbit
Arnold Wolfson
- Query
Rose Styron
- Science: The Coming Century
Martin Rees
- Sorry
Julian Barnes, reply by Frank Kermode
- Tempting Targets
Francis Wyndham
- The Classicist’s Eye
G.W. Bowersock
- The Co-President at Work
David Bromwich
- The Deceptive Director
Nathaniel Rich
- The Friendship of Cal and Elizabeth
Helen Vendler
- The Glories of Yiddish
Harold Bloom
- The Irving Howe Memorial Lecture
Morris Dickstein
- The Lessons of the Master
Ian Buruma
- The Middle East: What to Do?
Brian Urquhart
- The Monkey
Vladislav Hodasevich, translated from the Russian by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Myths of Ted Hughes
Mark Ford
- The Prime of James Wood
John Banville
- Trapped in the New ‘You’re on Your Own’ World
Robert M. Solow
- Two Paths for the Novel
Zadie Smith
- Victims of Vermeermania
James Fenton
- Vietnam: Dead Souls
Jonathan Mirsky
- What Happened to Wystan Auden?
Charles Rosen
- What is Scotland?
Andrew O’Hagan
- Who Killed Anna Politkovskaya?
Amy Knight
- Why Didn’t Science Rise in China?
Alan L. Goodman, reply by Jonathan D. Spence
- Witnesses to a Mystery
Claire Messud
- Wright in Love
Martin Filler
December