January
- ‘Disturbing’ & ‘Misleading’ Steve Coll
- ‘Masters of Doing Nothing at All’ Pico Iyer
- ‘The Physics of Wall St.’ James Owen Weatherall, reply by Andrew Hacker
- A Passion for Jungle People and Birdsong Steven Mithen
- A Talk with Mr. Chen Arien Mack
- America’s ‘Wicked War’ James M. McPherson
- Awaiting a New Darwin H. Allen Orr
- Banned in Canada David Bennett
- Charles Rosen on Chopin
- Cherry-Picking Our History Sean Wilentz
- Churchill or Bust? Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- Diving Deep into Danger Nathaniel Rich
- Double Agents in Love Lorrie Moore
- Egypt: The Rule of the Brotherhood Yasmine El Rashidi
- Ezekiel and the Beasts Ingrid D. Rowland
- Germany: Surviving the Whispers Claire Messud
- How Politics Are Haunted by the Past Jeremy Waldron
- How to Die in Massachusetts Marcia Angell
- How to Recruit Jihadis Jason Epstein
- My Father Murray Urquhart Brian Urquhart
- Obama’s Big and Quiet Transformation Michael Tomasky
- Palestine: How Bad, & Good, Was British Rule? Avishai Margalit
- Pamuk on the Eve Neal Ascherson
- Please, God! William Pfaff
- Speak, Memory Oliver Sacks
- Spring at the NYPL Paul Holdengräber
- Study the Panther! John Banville
- The ‘Happy’ and the ‘Hopeless’ Jerome Groopman
- The ‘Stoned Gallantry’ of Leonard Cohen Dan Chiasson
- The Case of Michelle Edward Burns
- The Empires of Elliott Keith Thomas
- The Genius of the Other Daumier Willibald Sauerländer
- The Risk of Being Too Nice Martin Filler
- Toward High Point Rosanna Warren
- Visitors Russell Baker
- Why So Popular? Tim Parks
- Will Geography Decide Our Destiny? Malise Ruthven
February
- ‘Untold History’: An Exchange Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, reply by Sean Wilentz
- 13 Questions for John O. Brennan David Cole
- An Astonishing Record of a Vast Collection Walter Kaiser
- Are the Republicans Beyond Saving? Elizabeth Drew
- Batman vs. Koolhaas Martin Filler
- Can They Patent Your Genes? Daniel J. Kevles
- Can a Photodiode Be Conscious? Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi, reply by John R. Searle
- Countee Cullen: The Reluctant Lamb Darryl Pinckney
- Did Aramco Exploit the Saudis? G. J. H. Dowling and R. I. Norberg, reply by Hugh Eakin
- Freud and Sexual Abuse Allen Esterson, reply by Oliver Sacks
- Glories of Classicism Stephen Greenblatt and Joseph Leo Koerner
- In Baudelaire’s Dream Brothel Luc Sante
- In a Trance of Dread Joyce Carol Oates
- In the Beautiful, Threatened North Ian Frazier
- Isaiah Berlin on Machiavelli
- It’s For Your Own Good! Cass R. Sunstein
- Krzysztof Michalski (1948–2013) Timothy Snyder
- Palestine: What the Mandate Said Yisrael Medad, reply by Avishai Margalit
- Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013)
- Terrorist or Martyr? Christopher Benfey
- The Film Worlds of Wes Anderson Michael Chabon
- The Heretic Bill Keller
- The Mystery of Translation W.S. Merwin
- The Noble Dreams of Piero Walter Kaiser
- The Russian Nobility Under the Red Terror Michael Scammell
- The Triumph of the Survivor Nick Laird
- The Way They Live Now Michael Lewis
- They Shined Together Helen Vendler
- Too Little, Too Late: Why? Jeff Madrick
- Warrior Petraeus Thomas Powers
- When the Jihad Came to Mali Joshua Hammer
- Who Killed Pamela in Peking? Jonathan D. Spence
March
- A Poem by Miguel Hernández Miguel Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Don Share, with an introduction by Jeffrey Yang
- A Very Wretched Relationship Russell Baker
- Afghanistan: The Way to Peace Anatol Lieven
- America: ‘Into the Heart of Darkness’ Fred Anderson
- An A from Nabokov Edward Jay Epstein
- An Inventory of Inhumanity Michael Gorra
- Beethoven and the Quality of Courage Daniel Barenboim
- Catholics and Jews: The Great Change Garry Wills
- Could Stalin Have Been Stopped? István Deák
- From Brecht to Broadway Robert Brustein
- He Knew Manet Luc Sante
- He Shut Out the Horrors Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- Hollywood’s ‘Naughtiest, Bawdiest Year’ Geoffrey O’Brien
- Homunculism Colin McGinn
- Jack Kerouac: Crossing the Line Andrew O’Hagan
- Lead Poisoning: The Ignored Scandal Helen Epstein
- Most of Us Are Biased, After All Leonard Mlodinow
- On James Baldwin Darryl Pinckney
- One of a Kind in Cumbria Fiona MacCarthy
- Proust the Passionate Reader Edmund White
- Religion Without God Ronald Dworkin
- Surrealism Made Fresh Sanford Schwartz
- The Hallucinators Among Us Michael Greenberg
- The Lead Menace David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, reply by Helen Epstein
- The Nightmare of the West Memphis Three Nathaniel Rich
- The Roberts Court vs. Voting Rights David Cole
- The Sensual Vision of Oscar Niemeyer Martin Filler
- What It Means to Be Deaf William R. Polk, reply by Jerome Groopman
- What Makes Dogs Dogs Sue Halpern
- What Rules Should Govern US Drone Attacks? Kenneth Roth
- Will the Chinese Be Supreme? Ian Johnson
April
- ‘It’s For Your Own Good!’ Jack Fruchtman and David M. Brown, reply by Cass R. Sunstein
- A ‘Son of Darwin’ in Turkey? Jeremy Franks
- A Deer Harvest? Jim Sterba
- A Different Turning Point for Mankind? G.W. Bowersock
- A Genius for Disaster Cathleen Schine
- A New Kind of Woman Robert Pogue Harrison
- An Exchange on John Brown David S. Reynolds, reply by Christopher Benfey
- As You Come Over the Hill Charles Simic
- Asia: ‘The Explosive Transformation’ Pankaj Mishra
- Barney Frank in New York Arien Mack
- Challenge to the Church William Pfaff
- Chaucer & the Jews Lawrence Besserman
- Chen Guangcheng in New York: An Interview Jerome A. Cohen and Ira Belkin, with Chen Guangcheng
- Did Petraeus Make a Difference? David Ball, reply by Thomas Powers
- Down and Out in Cambridge Louis Begley
- Good Listening—And Bad Robert Winter
- How Animals May Cause the Next Big One Florence Williams
- In Harm’s Way Edward Erwin, reply by Cass R. Sunstein
- In the Kenyan Cauldron Joshua Hammer
- India: Watch What You Say Timothy Garton Ash
- Isaiah Berlin Against the Current Mark Lilla
- Leonard Cohen’s Holy Dove Pico Iyer, reply by Dan Chiasson
- Making a Long-Gone World Alive Sanford Schwartz
- MoMA: A Needless Act of Destruction Martin Filler
- Not So Elementary, Watson Michael Dirda
- Obama’s Big Success—Sort Of Michael Tomasky
- On Anthony Lewis (1927–2013) David Cole
- On a Very High Wire Francine Prose
- Paris: The Thrill of the Modern Anka Muhlstein
- Pinning Down Spartacus Mary Beard
- Scientology: The Story Diane Johnson
- Some Like It Hot! Bill McKibben
- The ‘Breaking of an Honorable Career’ Roderick MacFarquhar
- The Art of Our Terrible War Sanford Schwartz
- The Debt We Shouldn’t Pay Robert Kuttner
- The Deep Stains of Dictatorship Norman Davies
- The Father of Violent Islamism Max Rodenbeck
- The Lost Piero Nathaniel Silver, James R. Banker, and Machtelt Israëls, reply by Walter Kaiser
- The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! Robert Darnton
- The Real Karl Marx John Gray
- The Revolt of the Invisible Woman Alison Lurie
- Vichy Lives!—In a Way Robert O. Paxton
- Vichy’s Ocean Liner David D. Hebb, reply by Robert O. Paxton
- Waking Up the Half-Dead Fintan O’Toole
- Warm Water Russians John L. Harper, reply by Malise Ruthven
- What Is a Good Life? Marcia Angell
- What Woody Wrote Larry McMurtry
- With a View of the Sea Joseph Brodsky, translated from the Russian by Glyn Maxwell and Zakhar Ishov
May
- ‘Beat Women’: An Exchange Joyce Johnson and Lyndall Gordon, reply by Andrew O’Hagan
- ‘Challenge to the Church’ Garry Wills, reply by William Pfaff
- ‘Choices for an Uncrowned Queen’ Timothy Garton Ash
- ‘How to Create a Mind’ Joe Herbert, reply by Colin McGinn
- ‘One Abraham or Three?’ Adam Kirsch
- ‘Scientology: The Story’ Karin Pouw, reply by Diane Johnson
- ‘The Glory of Certain Moments in Life’ Michael Dirda
- 101.3 degrees Jerzy Ficowski, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer
- A Genius from Four Countries Charles Simic
- An Original Thinker of Our Time Cass R. Sunstein
- Andy Warhol and His Foundation: The Questions Richard Dorment
- Animals: Nonlethal Solutions Wayne Pacelle and Bernard Unti
- Behind the Iron Mask Peter Brooks
- Berkeley: What We Didn’t Know Adam Hochschild
- Bolshevik Jazz Gregory Friedin
- Bolívar: What Price Glory? Enrique Krauze, translated from the Spanish by Hank Heifetz
- Can Shell Be Stopped? Subhankar Banerjee
- Green Absinthe Frederick Seidel
- Haiti: The Compromising Reality Mischa Berlinski
- He Conceived the Mathematics of Roughness Jim Holt
- Herakles: Punished Again! Daniel Mendelsohn
- How She Survived David D. Hebb
- How They Stopped Slavery: A New Perspective David Brion Davis
- How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled Paul Krugman
- How to Succeed in Business Anne Applebaum
- In Quest of Blood Lines Gordon S. Wood
- Inside Our New America Joseph Lelyveld
- Insult the King and… Go Directly to Jail Timothy Garton Ash
- Is Humbert Humbert Jewish? Mark Ford
- Kicking the Germans Out of the East Paul Wilson
- Looking for Wittgenstein Ray Monk
- Maggie Andrew O’Hagan
- Mandela & Communism: An Exchange Rian Malan and Paul Trewhela, reply by Bill Keller
- On Sylvia Plath Elizabeth Hardwick
- One Hour & Four Minutes with Mrs. Thatcher Jonathan Mirsky
- Pakistan: Why Drones Don’t Help Mohsin Hamid
- Ruthless Iran: Can a Deal Be Made? Roger Cohen
- Simone Weil Susan Sontag
- The Angel of the Bizarre Julian Bell
- The Bombers’ World Christian Caryl
- The Ecstasy of a Modern Romantic Joan Acocella
- The Invention of David Bowie Ian Buruma
- The Muse Makes Mischief Dan Chiasson
- The Real Men of England Fintan O’Toole
- The Resurgence of the Kurds Christopher de Bellaigue
- The Saga of the Flaming Zucchini Jenny Uglow
- Those Dickens Kids: What Happened? Colm Tóibín
- Time Regained! James Gleick
- Visions of Indian Art William Dalrymple
- What Is Autism? Jerome Groopman