- ‘…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