2008: The Best of All Games

The perfection and grace of baseball
John Rawls

2007: Extreme Weather Advisory

Global warming’s effects in the North Atlantic and beyond
Kerry Emanuel

2005: Reforming Health Care

The ideas that informed the current health care debate

2005: What’s Hurting the Middle Class

The myth of overspending obscures the real problem
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

2005: The Power and the Glory

Myths of American exceptionalism
Howard Zinn

2004: A Mostly Irish Farce

A tribute to Ireland and its masters of the ridiculous
Roger Boylan

2003: Just Marriage

On the public importance of private unions
Mary Lyndon Shanley

2002: Feminist Icons in Love

The romantic obsessions of Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras
Vivian Gornick

2002: Holiday à la Carte

Michael Coffey

2002: The Place of Tolerance in Islam

On reading the Qur’an—and misreading it.
Khaled Abou El Fadl

2000: The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.
Patrick Erouart-Siad

1999: Purgatorio, Canto XXIX

A translation of Dante
W.S. Merwin

1999: Is Equality Passé?

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis on the failure of egalitarian programs to appeal to our “deeply held notions of fairness.”

1997: Toward the End of War

Envisioning a post–Cold War world in which major military conflict is eradicated
Randall Forsberg

Ron Dellums and Carl Kaysen respond.

1997: Going Public

David Donnelly, Janice Fine, and Ellen S. Miller on campaign finance reform
Senator Russ Feingold responds.

1996: Time For a Wealth Tax?

Why the super-rich need to start paying
their share
Edward Wolff

1996: Hands Off Clitoridectomy

What our revulsion reveals about ourselves.
Yael Tamir

1994: An Intervention

George Packer painfully discovers human frailties in Togo

1992: On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack

Eugene Rivers’s appeal to African-American intellectuals, and a discussion with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Margaret Burnham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., bell hooks, Glenn Loury, Cornel West, and Rivers.

1991: Terminal Reading

Sven Birkerts on the wide-ranging effects of electronic communication.

1989: Influences

On the power of T. S. Eliot
Seamus Heaney

1989: A Walk into Darkness

The repression of Iranian women
Betty Sosnin

1989: Seeing Eye to Eye

An interview with Arthur Miller
James Carroll and Helen Epstein

1988: Poet’s Sampler: Ha Jin

Introduced by Allen Grossman

1987: Video Novels

On the role of television in the modern literary imagination
Cecilia Tichi

1986: Candidates for Survival

A talk with Harold Bloom
Ellen Spirer

1985: Exorcizing Pornography

Why we shouldn't fear images
Walter Kendrick

1983: Play Ball

Opening day, when hope springs eternal
Tom Hart

1983: The Eye of the Outsider

Elizabeth Bishop’s collected poems
Adrienne Rich

1977: Borges on the Right

In his later years, Jorge Luis Borges transformed from “invisible biographer” into unlikely spokesman for Argentina’s military dictatorship.
Katherine Singer Kovacs

1976: An Interview with Grace Paley

The author and poet on her creative process and the world that inspired her.
Gail Pool and Shirley Roses

1975: An Interview with Susan Sontag

In our first issue, Susan Sontag discusses the consequences of seeing through a photographic lens.
Geoffrey Movius