- ‘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