January
February
March
- ‘Health Care: Who Knows Best?’
Matthew Pincus and Richard Ganz, M.D., reply by Jerome Groopman
- ‘I’m a Realist’
Joshua Hammer
- A Bouquet of Science
Jeremy Bernstein
- A Hero of Science, After All
Timothy Ferris
- A Passage to England
Michael Wood
- Ardor in Amherst
Joyce Carol Oates
- At Last, Good News from the Balkans
Tim Judah
- At the Tea Party
Jonathan Raban
- Big Pharma & ‘Best’ Medical Practices
Neil A. Holtzman, reply by Jerome Groopman
- Brutalized in China
Jonathan Mirsky
- Charlie
Frederick Seidel
- Comedy in Bloom
Alison Lurie
- Correction
David Thomson
- Dirac’s Model Airplane
Malcolm Gluck, reply by Freeman Dyson
- Drawing the Wrong Lesson
Max Hastings
- Edge People
Tony Judt
- Fly High & Fall
Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Miranda Robbins
- Gogol Haunts the New Ukraine
Timothy Snyder
- Heavy Weather in Copenhagen
Bill McKibben
- How They Killed the Economy
Roger E. Alcaly
- In Love with Trains
Tony Judt
- Is There Life in Health Care Reform?
Elizabeth Drew
- Koestler Comes Back
Thomas Baroth
- Looking for Purity in Detroit
Cathleen Schine
- Lord Warden
Tony Judt
- Modernizing the Marranos
J.H. Elliott
- On J.D. Salinger
Michael Greenberg
- Paris Was Yesterday
Tony Judt
- Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
Jason Epstein
- Quiet, Shattering, Perfect
Deborah Eisenberg
- Saved by Czech
Tony Judt
- The Anger of Exile
Colm Tóibín
- The Best Faces of the Enlightenment
Willibald Sauerländer, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer
- The Book of Guys
Jennifer Schuessler
- The Gambler
Nathaniel Rich
- The Homer of the Ants
Margaret Atwood
- The Money Fighting Health Care Reform
Michael Tomasky
- The Passions of Vincent van Gogh
Richard Dorment
- The Rape of American Prisoners
David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow
- The Strange Charms of John Cheever
Edmund White
- The Threat to Palladio’s City
Lucia Muraro and Michela Muraro, reply by Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Way to Stop Prison Rape
David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow
- The Wizard
Daniel Mendelsohn
- Tiepolo: Eros, Mystery, Menace
Ingrid D. Rowland
- Two
Günter Eich, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
- Under the Volcano
Jasper Griffin
- Victor Serge’s Last Chance
J. Hoberman
- What Babies Know and We Don’t
Michael Greenberg
- What Is Europe to Do?
Chris Patten
- What Peter Singer Wants of You
Thomas Nagel
- What Ted Said
Roger Mudd
- When America Was Transformed
Susan Dunn
- Where China Failed
Paul R. Goldin, reply by Jason Epstein
April
May
June
- ‘A Jewel of a Thousand Facets’
Anthony Grafton
- ‘Cruel Ethiopia’
Donald Levine
- ‘Cruel Ethiopia’
Ken Ohashi, reply by Helen Epstein
- ‘The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment’: An Exchange
Abraham H. Foxman, reply by Peter Beinart
- ‘The Message from the Glaciers’
Jairam Ramesh
- ‘The Real Critter’
Christopher Benfey
- ‘The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer’
Hilton Als
- ‘The Time We Have Is Growing Short’
Paul Volcker
- ‘To the End of the Land’
David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
- ‘What Price Glory?’
Freeman Dyson
- A Bold New Bible
Frank Kermode
- A Supreme Difference
Anthony Lewis
- America First?
Tim Parks
- At the Heart of the Crash
Jeff Madrick
- Britain: A False Dawn?
Jonathan Raban
- Can We Judge General von Hammerstein?
Adam Kirsch
- Charter School Blues
Thomas M. Stephens, reply by E. D. Hirsch Jr.
- Climate: What You Need to Know
Nicholas Stern
- Crystal Declension
Charles Wright
- Despair Over the Pope
John B. Giuliani
- Deuce!
Michael Kimmelman
- Eyeless in Gaza
David Shulman
- Getting the World into Poems
Charles Simic
- Happy Birthday, Frédéric Chopin!
Charles Rosen
- How to Understand the Dreyfus Affair
Robert Gildea
- Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History
Timothy Snyder
- Letter to John Updike
Nicholson Baker
- Life Exactly as It Is Lived
Claire Messud
- Lords of ‘Pride and Plunder’
Robert Bartlett
- Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’
William Pfaff
- More Lad Than Bad
Edmund White
- North Korea: The Crisis of Faith
Christian Caryl
- Not Rembrandt, But…
Benjamin Moser
- Reading Mandelstam on Stalin
José Manuel Prieto
- Right and Wrong New Labour
John Cassidy
- Smarter than You Think
Wyatt Mason
- Strange Love in the North
Tim Parks
- The Beauty of a Debacle
Geoffrey O’Brien
- The Believer
Ian Buruma
- The CIA & Iraq—How the White House Got Its Way: An Exchange
Robert Jervis, reply by Thomas Powers
- The Curveball of Karl Rove
David Bromwich
- The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment
Peter Beinart
- The Food Movement, Rising
Michael Pollan
- The Funicular Stops Here
Paul Woodman
- The Light on the Castle
Sanford Schwartz
- The Mission of Father Maciel
Alma Guillermoprieto
- The Most Dynamic Ruler
R.J.W. Evans
- The Other Side of Science
Jenny Uglow
- The Powerhouse of the New
Martin Filler
- The Still Mysterious Enchanter
John Banville
- The Triumph of Emperor Silvio
Gianfranco Pasquino, reply by Alexander Stille
- The Victorious Servant
Michael Wood
- The Worth of Warhol
Peter Gates
- The iPad Revolution
Sue Halpern
- Treating Refugees as ‘Terrorists’
David Slawson, reply by Hugh Eakin and Alisa Roth
- Unsparing Visions
Joyce Carol Oates
- Vietnam Now
Jonathan Mirsky
- Wake Up and Dream
Michael Dirda
- Was Washington ‘Mad for Glory’?
Gordon S. Wood
- What Obama Should Have Said to BP
William Pfaff
- Who Was Charles Dickens?
Robert Gottlieb
- Why We Must Bring Back the Wolf
John Terborgh
- Words
Tony Judt
July
- ‘A Rapturous Spooky Dream’
Julian Bell
- ‘The Food Movement, Rising’: An Exchange
Kevin Morgan, Joel Berg, and Ellen Finkelpearl, reply by Michael Pollan
- ‘The Tea Party Jacobins’: An Exchange
David Jordan, Elliot Turiel, and Staughton Lynd, reply by Mark Lilla
- ‘Why Has He Fallen Short?’
Frank Rich
- Bitter Truths
Sanford Schwartz
- Brotherhood
Sue Halpern
- Good-bye to Dubai
Joshua Hammer
- Hide and Be Found
Mark Ford
- How Great Was Churchill?
Brian Urquhart
- Iraq: The Impasse
Joost Hiltermann
- Meritocrats
Tony Judt
- On Handguns and the Law
Stephen Breyer
- Righteous & Wrong
Malise Ruthven
- South Africa: The Truth Teller
Joseph Lelyveld
- Strangely Sinister in Saratoga
Christopher Benfey
- The Beats: Pictures of a Legend
Edmund White
- The Beauty of a Hermetic, Corrupt World
Ruth Franklin
- The CIA and WMDs: The Damning Evidence
Fulton Armstrong, reply by Thomas Powers
- The Crisis & the Euro
George Soros
- The Health Bill Explained at Last
Jonathan Oberlander and Theodore R. Marmor
- The Marrying Kind
Diane Johnson
- The Most Happy Couple
Martin Filler
- The New Challenge to Repressive Cuba
Daniel Wilkinson
- The Prime of Muriel Spark
David Lodge
- The Roberts Court vs. Free Speech
David Cole
- The Shame of the World Cup
Tim Parks
- The Short Happy Life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov
Elaine Blair
- The Temptation of Elena Kagan
Ronald Dworkin
- Vermeer
Wisława Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak
September
- ‘His Glory and His Curse’
Charles Baxter
- ‘How to Understand the Dreyfus Affair’
Susan Vaillant
- ‘What Darwin Got Wrong’
Colin Wells, reply by Richard C. Lewontin
- A Hero of the China Underground
Howard W. French
- A Letter from Uri Geller
Uri Geller
- A New Theory of Justice
Samuel Freeman
- A Very British Deceit
Philippe Sands
- Auden’s ‘Willing Helper’
Nathan Kernan
- Bernard Knox (1914–2010)
Garry Wills
- Boys Will Be Boys
Daniel Mendelsohn
- Captive Minds
Tony Judt
- Catholics, Muslims, and the Mosque
R. Scott Appleby and John T. McGreevy
- Charm City, USA
Nicholas Lemann
- Decline But Not Fall
Russell Baker
- E.M. Forster: The Story of Affection
Andrew O’Hagan
- Ecstatic About Pearl Harbor
Ian Buruma
- FDA: This Agency Can Be Dangerous
Marcia Angell
- Flaubert, Imperfect
Jonathan Raban
- General von Hammerstein & Hitler: An Exchange
Gottfried Paasche and Robert Grudin, reply by Adam Kirsch
- Germany: The Poet After the Fall
Adam Kirsch
- Health Care: The Disquieting Truth
Arnold Relman
- High and Low on Crack
Darryl Pinckney
- How Strong Are the British Fascists?
Clancy Sigal, reply by Jonathan Raban
- In the Life of ‘The Wire’
Lorrie Moore
- Iraq: The Ignored Victims
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick
- Is Goodness in Your Genes?
H. Allen Orr
- Justice Scalia & Mr. Micawber
Stephen Sedley
- Kashmir: The Time Has Come
Steve Coll
- Knowledge vs. Pedantry
Sam Abrams, reply by Tony Judt
- Levin’s Moral Mowing
Janet Malcolm, reply by Elaine Blair
- Move the Warburg to L.A.?
Ingrid D. Rowland, reply by Anthony Grafton and Jeffrey Hamburger
- On Tony Judt
Timothy Snyder
- Our Man in Palestine
Nathan Thrall
- Paying the Right Kind of Attention
Diane Johnson
- Revealing ‘Turkey’s Hidden Past’
Roger Cohen
- Save the Warburg Library!
Anthony Grafton and Jeffrey Hamburger
- Searching for a Lost World
Walter Kaiser
- Shakespeare & Shylock
Stephen Greenblatt
- Shylock in Red?
James Shapiro, reply by Stephen Greenblatt
- The CIA: A Founder’s Vision
Frederick Eberstadt
- The Divine Sarah
Graham Robb
- The Fierce Emotions of Siena
Andrew Butterfield
- The Greatest Show in Town
David Thomson
- The Hard Truth About the Foreign Legion
Max Hastings
- The Ideal Friend
Cathleen Schine
- The Painter’s Painter: Velázquez After 350 Years
Willibald Sauerländer, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer
- The Party: Impenetrable, All Powerful
Ian Johnson
- The Pirates Are Winning!
Jeffrey Gettleman
- The Primordial Struggle
Ingrid D. Rowland
- The Question of Pearl Buck
Jonathan D. Spence
- The Slump Goes On: Why?
Paul Krugman and Robin Wells
- The Specter Haunting the Senate
Michael Tomasky
- The Unfolding Elegy
Dan Chiasson
- The Way Out of the Slump
Paul Krugman and Robin Wells
- Tony Judt (1948–2010)
Timothy Garton Ash
- Vespers at Pacifico’s
Nick Laird
- What Are Schools For?
Jonathan Zimmerman
- What We Need to Know About the Holocaust
Timothy Snyder
- What to Do About Guantánamo?
David Cole
- Which Thucydides Can You Trust?
Mary Beard
- Would JFK Have Left Vietnam?: An Exchange
Kai Bird, reply by William Pfaff
- Yemen, al-Qaeda, and the US
Max Rodenbeck
October
November
December
- ‘Rude Ludicrous Lucrative’ Rap
Dan Chiasson
- ‘The Myth of Charter Schools’
Marco Petruzzi, reply by Diane Ravitch
- ‘The Social Network’
Belle Randall
- ‘The Worst of the Madness’
David Bennett, reply by Anne Applebaum
- ‘Xanadu in New York’
J.C.Y. Watt, reply by Eliot Weinberger
- A Hero of the Church
Eamon Duffy
- A Very Wily Believer
Michael Kimmelman
- Bring Back the Rails!
Tony Judt
- China: From Famine to Oslo
Perry Link
- Cleopatra: The Myth
Mary Beard
- Curveballs
Joseph Lelyveld
- Did Churchill Let Them Starve?
Joseph Lelyveld
- Digital Democratic Vistas
Joseph Raben, reply by Robert Darnton
- Eats and Reads
Ingrid D. Rowland
- Franco, MI6, Mussolini & Mallorca
Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, reply by John Richardson
- Going Mad for Greece
Pico Iyer
- Happy Birthday, Robert Schumann!
Charles Rosen
- Having a Good Time with Ariosto
Ingrid D. Rowland
- How Can the Economy Recover?
Jeff Madrick
- How Do We Know What We Know?
Sue Halpern
- In Search of Lost Paris
Luc Sante
- In the Hidden Paris Underground
Peter Brooks
- Ionesco Was Not a Nationalist
Emil Simiu
- It Could Be Done
James Guest, reply by Dan Chiasson
- Jumping Through the Computer Screen
Anthony Grafton
- Looking for Hope in Burma
Howard W. French
- My Son, My Son!
Joyce Carol Oates
- NO, Prime Minister
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- No Thanks for the Memories
Gordon S. Wood
- Nothing Else
Charles Simic
- On Andrei Sakharov
Adam Michnik
- Our Flawed Founders
Joseph J. Ellis
- Tale
translated from the French by John Ashbery
- The Art of Flamingo Watching
Helen Vendler
- The Beleaguered Cambodians
Margo Picken
- The Concealed Battle to Run Russia
Amy Knight
- The Glory of the Rails
Tony Judt
- The Great Adventure of Sergei Diaghilev
Arlene Croce
- The Grim Threat to British Universities
Simon Head
- The Last Irascible
Sarah Boxer
- The Library: Three Jeremiads
Robert Darnton
- The Novelist Who Can’t Be Stopped
Michael Greenberg
- The Tired Terrorist
Christian Caryl
- The Way Out of Afghanistan
Ahmed Rashid
- Titian and the Rebirth of Tragedy
Andrew Butterfield
- Velázquez in England
Anthony Bailey, reply by Willibald Sauerländer
- Where Do We Go from Here?
Paul Krugman and Robin Wells
- Who Is Happy and When?
Thomas Nagel
- Why WikiLeaks Changes Everything
Christian Caryl
- Xanadu in New York
Eliot Weinberger