- ‘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