The New York Review of Books

January

• ‘Dictatorial Designs’ in Nicaragua Joel Simon
• ‘On Meyer Schapiro’ David Rosand
• A Chill on ‘The Guardian’ Alan Rusbridger
• Adventures in the Opium Trade Cathleen Schine
• American Parable Sanford Schwartz
• Bolaño & Drugs Sarah Kerr
• Can You Spare a Dime? Robert Skidelsky
• Capitalist Pastorale Janet Malcolm
• China’s Charter 08 translated from the Chinese by Perry Link
• Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption Marcia Angell
• How Not to Make Peace in the Middle East Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
• On V.S. Naipaul: An Exchange Paul Theroux and Margaret Murray, reply by Ian Buruma
• Oppie in New York Daniel Mendelsohn
• Sacred, Earthy & Sublime Andrew Butterfield
• The Iran Mystery Case Max Rodenbeck
• The Poet and the Wreck Mark Ford
• The Raid on Memorial Orlando Figes
• What to Do About the Torturers? David Cole
• Widcraft Alison Lurie
• Working Overtime John Ashbery

February

• ‘Drug Companies & Doctors’: An Exchange Debra L. Zumwalt and Nada L. Stotland, reply by Marcia Angell
• ‘How Historic a Victory?’ Joseph Woodward
• ‘Please Listen, Before It Is Too Late’ Daniel Barenboim
• ‘Wright in Love’ Franklin Toker, reply by Martin Filler
• A French–AmericanEncounter Thomas Bishop
• A Note to Readers The Editors
• A Revolutionary President Russell Baker
• A Swing to Obama Michael Tomasky
• Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society? Emma Rothschild
• Court Poet & Pornographer G.W. Bowersock
• Cruising with Genius Graham Robb
• Eyeless in Gaza Roger Cohen
• Germans Confront the Nazi Past Max Hastings
• Google & the Future of Books Robert Darnton
• Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Frank Kermode
• Hoover’s Triumph Steve Hendricks
• How We Were Ruined & What We Can Do Jeff Madrick
• How to Deal with Iran Thomas R. Pickering, William Luers, and Jim Walsh
• How to Paint Like Titian James Fenton
• In Stalin’s Trap Joseph Frank
• More on V.S. Naipaul Patrick French, reply by Ian Buruma and Juliet Walker
• Norman Mailer: ‘Deer Park’ Letters Norman Mailer
• Norman Mailer: Letters on Writing Norman Mailer
• Pakistan in Peril William Dalrymple
• Porta Portese Rosanna Warren
• She Didn’t Play For Clyde Andrew O’Hagan
• Speaking in Tongues Zadie Smith
• Structures in Sand John Ashbery
• T.S. Eliot Repents Kate Farrell, reply by Charles Rosen
• The China We Don’t Know Jonathan Mirsky
• The Dark in the Piazza Tim Parks
• The Loves of the Falcon Edmund White
• The Middle East: What Next? Robert Malley and Hugh Eakin
• The Pleasure of Watteau Julian Bell
• The Russians Are Coming? Christian Caryl
• The Silent Superstar Robert Gottlieb
• The Superior Civilization Tim Flannery
• The Truth About Cleopatra Mary Beard
• Wagner & Jews Henry Wassermann, reply by Adam Kirsch
• What He Really Said Darryl Pinckney
• Why the Government Can Legally Lie Garry Wills
• Will He Rule South Africa? Joshua Hammer

March

• ‘Eyeless in Gaza’: An Exchange David A. Harris, reply by Roger Cohen
• ‘How to Deal with Iran’: Two Exchanges Robert R. Holt, Nikki Keddie, and Victor Gilinsky, reply by Thomas R. Pickering and William Luers, et al.
• A Great Dane Goes to the Dogs Stephen Greenblatt
• A Puzlax For Readers Rudolph H. Weingartner
• An Eye on the Tremors Sanford Schwartz
• Capitalism Beyond the Crisis Amartya Sen
• Closer Than Ever to Vergil Garry Wills
• Connoisseurs of Cruelty Charles Simic
• Conor Cruise O’Brien, 1917–2008 Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• Correction The Editors
• Defender of the Earth Helen Vendler
• Elektra in Tehran Anita Desai
• Forger’s Justice Jonathan Lopez, reply by James Fenton
• From Shtetl to Château Richard Dorment
• Google & Books: An Exchange Edward Mendelson, Paul N. Courant, Ann Kjellberg, J. D. McClatchy, and Margo Viscusi, et al.
• Government Beyond Obama? Richard Parker
• Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter! Charles Rosen
• How He Wrote His Songs Lorrie Moore
• Metronatural America Jonathan Raban
• Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Abbott Norman Mailer
• On John Updike Ian McEwan
• On Richard Seaver James Salter
• One Big Unhappy Family Fred Halliday
• Revolutionary Road Hilton Als
• Sticking to the Union John Sweeney, reply by Jeff Madrick
• Such, Such Was Eric Blair Julian Barnes
• The Color Money Wyatt Mason
• The Complete T.S. Eliot Ronald Schuchard
• The Death and Life of a Great Chinese City Richard J. Bernstein and Richard Bernstein
• The Ecstasy of John Muir Robert Pogue Harrison
• The Enlarged Republic—Then and Now Cass R. Sunstein
• The Hollywood Kennedy David Ansen
• The Thirty Days of Barack Obama Elizabeth Drew
• Transgression Daniel Mendelsohn
• What You Can Learn from Reinhold Niebuhr Brian Urquhart
• Where Reagan Stopped David Cole
• Which Scientist Can You Trust? H. Allen Orr
• White South Africans and Their Slaves James M. McPherson

April

• ‘A Hell on Earth’ Pico Iyer
• ‘The Poet & the Wreck’: An Exchange Paul Mariani and Joseph J. Feeney, S.J., reply by Mark Ford
• ‘The Russians Are Coming?’ Stephen F. Cohen and Nick Spicer, reply by Christian Caryl
• A Different Lincoln James Oakes
• A Family Worth Knowing Michael Dirda
• At Last, Justice for Monsters Richard Bernstein
• Can We Make America Smarter? Andrew Hacker
• Can You Really Become French? Robert O. Paxton
• Caught Between Hitler & Stalin Timothy Snyder
• Corrections The Editors
• He Changed History Jeremy Bernstein
• Herr Wehner Gottfried Benn, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
• How Mbeki Failed Joseph Lelyveld
• Iran’s Other Nuclear Reactor Burton Richter, reply by Thomas R. Pickering, William Luers, and Jim Walsh
• Iranian Human Rights Leader Shirin Ebadi in Danger Joanne Landy, Thomas Harrison, Stephen Shalom, and Jesse Lemisch
• Is It a Great Victory? Michael Massing
• John Ashbery: ‘Look, Gesture, Hearsay’ Dan Chiasson
• Knock on Wood Tim Parks
• Leaping into the Grand Unknown Freeman Dyson
• Looking for Cass Sunstein Ronald Dworkin
• Maman’s Boy Martin Filler
• On the Edge Adam Kirsch
• Putin vs. the Truth Orlando Figes
• Remarks by Václav Havel and Two Members of China’s Charter 08 at the Ceremony for the Homo Homini Award Václav Havel, Xu Youyu, and Cui Weiping
• Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers? Anthony Lewis
• Skirmishes in the Family Garden Cathleen Schine
• The Bob Marley Story Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
• The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Ingrid D. Rowland
• The Great Battle Against Islam Colin Thubron
• The Making of Samuel Beckett J. M. Coetzee
• The Parables of Flannery O’Connor Joyce Carol Oates
• The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means Mark Danner
• The War Against Women Hilary Mantel
• The Way of All Debt John Gray
• US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites Mark Danner
• Václav Havel Honors a Chinese Prisoner Li Xiaorong
• Wall: A Monologue David Hare
• Washington: Will the Lobbyists Win? Michael Tomasky
• Why Some People Do Not Read Poetry W.S. Merwin

May

• ‘Life Without Lawyers’: An Exchange Philip K. Howard and Harrison Sheppard, reply by Anthony Lewis
• ‘The Invader Wore Slippers’ John Banville
• A Black and Disgraceful Site Jonathan Freedland
• A Constant Reader John Gross
• A Peter Matthiessen Movie Jeff Sewald
• A Silly, Very Cultured Club Ingrid D. Rowland
• A Stimulus for Musical Colleges? Harry Chalmiers, reply by Elizabeth Drew
• Aiming to Please Claire Messud
• An Honor For Tony Judt Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• Are We Becoming a Superorganism? Jeffrey M. Dickemann, reply by Tim Flannery
• Clarification The Editors
• Corrections The Editors
• Goodbye to the ‘Age of Jackson’? Daniel Howe
• How Conservative Are Some Democrats? Thomas Frank
• How to Understand the Disaster Robert M. Solow
• Israel: Civilians & Combatants Avishai Margalit and Michael Walzer
• John Muir’s First Life Nora Rawn
• Letters From Saul Bellow Benjamin Taylor
• Living with Islam Ian Buruma
• Mad Dreams in the Amazon Joshua Hammer
• Making It Sue Halpern
• Primitive in Dresden Richard Dorment
• Shakespeare Goes to the Dogs Peter Aczel, reply by Stephen Greenblatt
• Thanks! The Editors
• The Affair of the Chinese Bronze Heads Hugh Eakin
• The Failure of the Economy & the Economists Benjamin M. Friedman
• The Great de Staël Richard Holmes
• The Mystery of Zhou Enlai Jonathan D. Spence
• The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs Arlen Specter
• The Not-So-Good Cop Michael Wood
• The Poet in an Unknown Prison Liu Xia, translated from the Chinese by Liao Tienchi
• The Scholar of Scholars G.W. Bowersock
• The Universities in Trouble Andrew Delbanco
• The Voice of the Eagle Garry Wills
• The War to Begin All Wars Gershom Gorenberg
• The Weather Makers Andrew O’Hagan
• The World We Live In Deborah Eisenberg
• Transcendental Woman Christopher Benfey
• What A.Q. Khan Really Did Jeremy Bernstein
• Who Should Own the World’s Antiquities? Hugh Eakin
• Why Darwin? Richard C. Lewontin

June

• ‘Israel & the Rules of War’: An Exchange Asa Kasher and Major General Amos Yadlin, reply by Avishai Margalit and Michael Walzer
• ‘The Bob Marley Story’ Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
• A Farewell to Arms Max Hastings
• A Heroic Historian on Heroes Russell Baker
• A Surprise from Saint Augustine Peter Brown
• America’s Prisons: Is There Hope? Helen Epstein
• Can Obama Change the Climate? Bill McKibben
• Escape in Japan Ian Buruma
• Flights Julian Barnes
• Flowering Porter Charles Baxter
• Keats’s Afterlife Christopher Ricks
• Lincoln’s Black History Garry Wills
• Madame Butterfly’s Brothel Colin Thubron
• Obama and the Middle East Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
• Pakistan on the Brink Ahmed Rashid
• The Admirable Mrs. James Colm Tóibín
• The Crisis and How to Deal with It George Soros, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, and Bill Bradley, et al.
• The Embrace of Bling Jennifer Schuessler
• The Greatest Actress of Her Age Stanley Wells
• The Late Show Martin Filler
• The Wittgenstein Illusion Adam Kirsch
• Who Should Own Antiquities? J. Michael Padgett
• Who Was Deceiving Whom? Jonathan Sumption

July

• ‘Foreign Aid Goes Military!’ Michael Nagler, reply by William Easterly
• ‘Island of Shame’: An Exchange on Diego Garcia Richard Barber and Thomas McC. Chesney, reply by Jonathan Freedland
• ‘The House of Wittgenstein’ Monica Strauss and Alexander Waugh, reply by Adam Kirsch
• ‘The Unencumbered Man’ Michael Tomasky
• A Mad, Bad, and Brutal Baron Anne Applebaum
• Advice to the Prince David Bromwich
• Amos Elon (1926–2009) Tony Judt
• Betting on the Weather D. Fisher Sweetnam
• China’s Dictators at Work: The Secret Story Jonathan Mirsky
• Corrections The Editors
• Divided Iran on the Eve Malise Ruthven
• From ‘Summertime’: ‘Undated Fragments’ J. M. Coetzee
• Getting High on the Himalayas Al Alvarez
• He Understood Evil Charles Simic
• Health Care, Elsewhere: An Exchange Harold Kalant, John Dean, and Norman Kalant, reply by Amartya Sen
• Hobbes & the Halo of Power Blair Worden
• Holocaust: The Ignored Reality Timothy Snyder
• In the Kangaroo’s Pouch Tim Parks
• Indian Terror on Our New Frontier Larry McMurtry
• Jazzing Up Hazlitt James Fenton
• Judging the Age of Jackson: An Exchange Daniel Howe, reply by David S. Reynolds
• Justice Holmes and the ‘Splendid Prisoner’ Anthony Lewis
• Land Divers Claire Messud
• Liberalism for Now Paul Starr
• Lincoln, Jefferson, & Blacks Daniel Klenbort, reply by Garry Wills
• London: A Pilgrim’s Progress Neal Ascherson
• Looking for the Patriarch Michael Greenberg
• Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood Michael Chabon
• Not an AntiFederalist Harvey J. Kaye
• On Whose Side Was Conor Cruise O’Brien? John Lloyd
• Sensual in the South Edmund White
• Shostakovich at Oxford Isaiah Berlin
• The Charms of Ancient Egypt Ingrid D. Rowland
• The Faith of Flannery O’Connor Edward T. Oakes, reply by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Glee of Contempt Dan Chiasson
• The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting Arnold Relman
• The Same-Sex Future David Cole
• The U-Boat Enigma David Kahn
• The World Finance Crisis & the American Mission Robert Skidelsky
• This Woman Is Dangerous Michael Dirda
• Venice: The Masters in Boston Andrew Butterfield
• What to Do About Darfur Nicholas D. Kristof
• When Hollywood Dared Geoffrey O’Brien
• XLIX Derek Walcott

August

• ‘Holocaust: The Ignored Reality’: An Exchange Pacho Lane, reply by Timothy Snyder
• ‘Israel: Civilians & Combatants’: An Exchange Shlomo Avineri and Zeev Sternhell, reply by Avishai Margalit and Michael Walzer
• ‘Life Without Lawyers’ Thomas J. Donnelly and Doug Ireland, reply by Anthony Lewis and Malise Ruthven
• ‘Love Is Like Park Avenue’ John Ashbery
• A Question of Coexistence J.H. Elliott
• A Very Chilly Victory Max Hastings
• Ahmadinejad’s Brutal Campaign Against Gays Doug Ireland, reply by Malise Ruthven
• Bad Bargains for Russian Music Michael Kimmelman
• Blundering in the Mideast with Prince Bandar Brian Urquhart
• China’s Repression of Liu Xiaobo Zhang Zuhua
• Conor Cruise O’Brien & Dr. Johnson Michael Williams and Thomas J. Donnelly, reply by Anthony Lewis
• Dissent On Darfur Mahmood Mamdani
• From ‘Summertime’: Notebooks 1972–1975 J. M. Coetzee
• Godfather of the Modern? Robert L. Herbert
• Health Reform: The Fateful Moment Theodore R. Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander
• I Am Not Steve Martin Elaine Blair
• Iran: The Tragedy & the Future Roger Cohen
• Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery Mary Beard
• Liu Xiaobo In Prison: A Letter From His Lawyer Mo Shaoping, translated from the Chinese by Perry Link
• Messing About with ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Michael Dirda
• Michael Hilton Als
• New York: The Prophet Jason Epstein
• Oblomov in Dublin Fintan O’Toole
• Pure Gold Joan Acocella
• Rape of the Congo Adam Hochschild
• Sentences II Charles Wright
• Sharing a Responsibility for History with Liu Xiaobo: A Statement by Signers of Charter 08 More than 100 Signers of Charter 08, translated from the Chinese by Perry Link
• Should Higher Education Be Free? Max Page and Mahmood Mamdani, reply by Andrew Delbanco
• The News About the Internet Michael Massing
• The Toad Charles Simic
• Up in the Park Martin Filler
• When Science & Poetry Were Friends Freeman Dyson

September

• A Hero of the Gothic Fiona MacCarthy
• A New Horizon for the News Michael Massing
• Conservatives: The Tanenhaus Taxonomy Garry Wills
• Disaster Watch Joel E. Cohen
• Grading the New Acropolis Martin Filler
• Israel At War (Cont’d) Shmuel Galai, reply by Michael Walzer and Avishai Margalit
• Israel: The Writers’ Writer Avishai Margalit
• Justice Sotomayor: The Unjust Hearings Ronald Dworkin
• Kagame’s Hidden War in the Congo Howard W. French
• Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009) Tony Judt
• Lincoln Off His Pedestal James M. McPherson
• Men and Boys G.W. Bowersock
• Mysteries of Ensor Sanford Schwartz
• Pilgrim to Eros Harold Bloom
• Release Kian Tajbakhsh! Arien Mack, Steven Pinker, Michael Walzer, and Juan Cole
• The Brazilian Sphinx Lorrie Moore
• The Complicit General Philippe Sands
• The Glimmerglass ‘Traviata’ Geoffrey O’Brien
• The Golden Frogs of Panama Mark Strand
• The Lost Virtues of the Asylum Oliver Sacks
• The Pride of Empire Roderick MacFarquhar
• The Times & the Internet Bill Keller, reply by Michael Massing
• The True Story of Izzy Jonathan Mirsky
• Tinsel Robin Robertson
• What Happened at Gordita Beach? Michael Wood
• Why Should You Believe It? John R. Searle

October

• ‘Health Reform: The Fateful Moment’ Ionel Vasilescu, reply by Theodore R. Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander
• A Wild Night in the Park Daniel Mendelsohn
• Blood on the Border Madison Smartt Bell
• Clarification The Editors
• Come Rain, Come Shine Claire Messud
• David Hockney’s iPhone Passion Lawrence Weschler
• Deception Over Lockerbie? Malise Ruthven
• Dictator Mugabe Makes a Comeback Joshua Hammer
• Digging for Moles Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• Dreams & Duels of England Hilary Mantel
• Entangled Giant Garry Wills
• Fever Dreams of Your FBI Norman Rush
• Freedom Through Cooking Steven Mithen
• Go Directly to Jail Anthony Lewis
• He Kept Marx Going Adam Kirsch
• Health Care: Can Obama Swing It? Elizabeth Drew
• Israel: The Code of Combat Menahem Yaari, reply by Avishai Margalit and Michael Walzer
• Let Israeli Films be Shown Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Schnabel, and Martin Sherman
• Mary McCarthy’s Room Christopher Benfey
• One Last Kick for Dick Frederick Seidel
• Orphan of History J. Hoberman
• Pixar Genius Christian Caryl
• Query J.D.A. Wiseman and D.R. Turnbull
• Right and Wrong: Psychologists vs. Philosophers Jeremy Waldron
• Shut Up in China Bei Ling, translated from the German by Hugh Eakin
• Something New on the Mall Michael Tomasky
• The Afghanistan Impasse Ahmed Rashid
• The Anarchy of Success William Easterly
• The Dear, Dear Friend Frank Kermode
• The Double Life & Its Dangers Margaret Atwood
• The Elegant Optimist Julian Bell
• The Enigma of Chiang Kai-shek Jonathan D. Spence
• The High-Wire Artist Charles Simic
• The Missions of Astronomy Steven Weinberg
• The Powers of Dr. Johnson Andrew O’Hagan
• The Price of Paradise Joshua Hammer
• The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers David Cole
• The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson Joyce Carol Oates
• U.S. Route 20 Karl Kirchwey
• What Is an Andy Warhol? Richard Dorment
• Who Was the Most Famous of All? Robert Gottlieb
• Why Art? Julian Bell

November

• ‘…side by side with Zeus himself…’ Steven Weinberg
• ‘The Anarchy of Success’ Ha-Joon Chang and James Rossant, reply by William Easterly
• ‘The Master Poet of Democracy’ John Carey
• ‘What Is an Andy Warhol?’: An Exchange Joel Wachs, Richard Ekstract, Richard Polsky, and David Mearns, reply by Richard Dorment
• 1989! Timothy Garton Ash
• A Great Conservationist, by Jingo Robert Pogue Harrison
• A Great Jump to Disaster? Tim Flannery
• A Passion for Hindu Myths David Shulman
• A Very Different Pakistan Caleb Crain
• American Pastoral Jonathan Raban
• At the Bad New Ballparks Michael Kimmelman
• Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern
• Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? David Cole
• Corrections The Editors
• Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing Jerome Groopman
• Dreams of Better Schools Andrew Delbanco
• From Amerigo Vespucci to Darryl Zanuck Larry McMurtry
• Give Credit to Kepler and Brahe! Jeremy Bernstein and Steven Weinberg
• Heroes from Hungary István Deák
• How England Became Modern: A Revolutionary View Bernard Bailyn
• How It Must Have Been Stephen Greenblatt
• How Lawyers ‘Lose Their Souls’ Burt Neuborne
• In the Face of Catastrophe: A Surprise Bill McKibben
• Iran: The Revenge Anonymous
• Iraq on the Edge Joost Hiltermann
• Mark Danner & the Irving Howe Memorial Lecture Morris Dickstein
• Napoleon’s Eye Peter Brooks
• Open Letter to Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Jonathan Cole
• Secret Love in the Lost City Pico Iyer
• Ted Russell Baker
• The Bad Lion Toni Bentley
• The Charms of Byzantium Joseph Connors
• The Confessions of Bill David Bromwich
• The Empire of Sister Ping Richard Bernstein
• The Invented World of Wallace Stevens Dan Chiasson
• The Mighty Penn Martin Filler
• The Most Imposing Cantaloupe Sanford Schwartz
• The Subtle Touch David Lodge
• The Tragedy of Leonard Peltier vs. the US Peter Matthiessen
• The Way Forward Diane Johnson
• There Once Was an Artist Called Lear… Brad Leithauser
• They Didn’t Regulate Enough and Still Don’t Jeff Madrick
• Two poems by Derek Walcott Derek Walcott
• What Future for the News?—An Exchange William F. Baker, Kate Merkel-Hess, and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, reply by Michael Massing
• Which Way for Hamas? Max Rodenbeck and Nicolas Pelham
• Who’s in Big Brother’s Database? James Bamford

December

• ‘Fear of Knowledge’: An Exchange Kathleen Lennon and Edwin M. Schur, reply by John R. Searle
• ‘The True Story of Izzy’: An Exchange Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and D. D. Guttenplan, reply by Jonathan Mirsky
• ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Joyce Carol Oates
• A Contest in the Cold Brian Urquhart
• A One-Term President?: The Choice Garry Wills
• A Second Hummingbird Paul Muldoon
• Axler’s Theater Elaine Blair
• Bacon Agonistes John Richardson
• Correction The Editors
• Dark Comedies of the City Jay Neugeboren
• Dilemmas for Doctors Jerome Groopman
• Emerson: ‘A Few Inches from Calamity’ John Banville
• Fighting over History Keith Thomas
• Flashes of Flora John Lanchester
• Google and the New Digital Future Robert Darnton
• Growing Up Female Cathleen Schine
• Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped? Raymond Baker and Eva Joly
• In Evin Prison Claire Messud
• Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over? Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
• Israel Without Illusions David Shulman
• Light on the Dark Side Paula Fox
• Love in a Moment of Hope Neal Ascherson
• Microcosmos Wisława Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
• Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews Timothy Snyder
• Nearly Anything Goes Robert Gottlieb
• Occupied Paris: The Sweet and the Cruel Ian Buruma
• Pynchon: The Sun Also Rises Michael Shae
• Resurrecting John Donne Mark Ford
• Saving the Magic City Walter Kaiser
• Shakespeare in No Man’s Land Stephen Greenblatt
• Specters of a Chinese Master Jonathan D. Spence
• The Big Muslim Problem! Malise Ruthven
• The Debate over Rwanda Noam Schimmel, reply by Howard W. French
• The Escape of the Collyers Christopher Benfey
• The New J-Lobby for Peace Edward Witten
• The Palestinian Poet Who Came Back Pankaj Mishra
• The Passions of Palladio Ingrid D. Rowland
• The Universal Attractions of Slavery David Brion Davis
• The World Is in Overshoot John Terborgh
• Undermining Keats Christopher Ricks
• Velvet Revolution: The Prospects Timothy Garton Ash
• Voices in the Heartland Brad Leithauser
• What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy? Tony Judt
• What Is a Warhol?: An Exchange Sarah Whitfield, Comité René Magritte, and Charles Lutz, reply by Richard Dorment
• Who Are the Blue Dogs? Michael Tomasky
• With Berlusconi in the Soup Ingrid D. Rowland
• Yahweh Meets R. Crumb Harold Bloom