- ‘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