- ‘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