Special Issue: Fiction's New Luminaries
• New stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, Steve Almond, Dean Bakopoulos, Tom Bissell, Brock Clarke, Peter Ho Davies, Merrill Feitell, Helon Habila, Jennifer Haigh, Cristina Henríquez, John McNally, Thisbe Nissen, Daniel Stolar, and Mika Tanner
• “Pinch Me; or, How Stephen King Changed My Life” by Ron McLarty

• Capturing Saddam by Carleton J. Phillips
• Inside Saddam’s Spider Hole by Chris Hondros
• Curfew: Afghanistan, 2002 by J. Malcolm Garcia
• Debating Evolution in the Age of DNA by Edward J. Larson
• Credentialing vs. Education by Jane Jacobs
• Fiction by Michael Chabon, E. L. Doctorow, Stuart Dybek, and John McNally
• Poetry by Julianna Baggott, David Barber, Robert Bly, Rafael Campo, Debora Greger, William Kloefkorn, William Logan, Patrick Phillips, Greg Rappleye, David Roderick, Barry Sternlieb, Natasha Trethewey, Charles Wright, C. Dale Young, and Adam Zagajewski

• The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
• Roger Wilkins and Mary Zwiep argue affirmative action
• Kevin Young’s poems for collages by Romare Bearden
• Memoirs by Sebastian Matthews and Reuel K. Wilson
• Dispatch from Kyrgyzstan by Simone Poirier-Bures
• Fiction by Steve Almond, Aimee Phan, and R. T. Smith
• Poetry by Betty Adcock, David Baker, Quan Barry, Linda Bierds, Rebecca Black, Debra Bruce, Peter Cooley, Mekeel McBride, Maurice Manning, William Matthews, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Alan Shapiro
• Translations by Aliki Barnstone and Michael Collier

• Staige D. Blackford (1931–2003) by George Garrett
• The Religion of James Monroe by David L. Holmes
• Fighting for Lincoln's Soul by Michael Nelson
• Painted Ladies of Yale by Alexander Burnham
• Fiction by Philip Gould, John J. Clayton, Angela Pneuman
• Poetry by Marvin Bell, Anna George Meek, Jeffrey Levine, Floyd Skloot, Angie Hogan, Natasha Sajé, Jay Parini, Sarah Gorham, Eve Grubin

• Quarterlies and the Future of Reading by George Core
• A Summoning of Place by George Garrett
• Vive L'Indifférence! by Jesse Bier
• Fiction by Deborah Prum, Murray Dunlap, Robert Hildt
• Poetry by John Balaban, Deborah Slicer, Charles Harper Webb, Floyd Skloot, Sharon Leiter, Peter Pereira, Hank Lazer

• What's Wrong—And Right—With American Higher Education? by James Axtell
• The New Look—And Taste—Of British Cuisine by Richard Jones
• Polio Summer by Mariflo Stephens
• Fiction by K. A. Longstreet, Roberta Silman, Jane R. Shippen, Mark Vollmer
• Poetry by Charlie Smith, Edward Bartók-Baratta, Brian Teare, John McKernan, Elisabeth Murawski, David Ray

• Power Dark, Power Bright: Robert A. Caro, Robert Moses, and Lyndon B. Johnson by Michael Nelson
• A National Disgrace by C. Knight Aldrich, M.D.
• Calley's Ghost by Philip Beidler
• Fiction by T. Alan Broughton, Donna Baier Stein, Michael Knight, Enid Shomer
• Poetry by Lawrence Raab, Dwaine Rieves, Donald Platt, Michael Borich

• The South in a Global World by James Peacock
• Flying Horses on the Silk Road by Russell Fraser
• Uncle Jeff Davis by Beauvais McCaddon
• Fiction by Philip Gould, William D. Schaefer, Norman German
• Poetry by Patrick Donnelly, Daniel Tobin, Jim Daniels, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Michael Chitwood, Robert Wrigley, David Musgrove, Ross Taylor, Eric Pankey

• The Good, The Bad, and the Phony: Six Famous Historians and their Critics by Michael Nelson
• The Levy Family and Monticello by Melvin. I. Urofsky
• Seasons by Emily Couric
• Fiction by Matt Freidson, James Conrad McKinley, Henry Alley, Sheri Joseph, Ben Brooks
• Poetry by Alan Williamson, John Witte, Joseph Lease, Stephen Margulies, James Tate, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Halliday

Henry Adams at Ground Zero by Sanford Pisker
The Road to September 11 by Jack Fischel
The New Deal 'Constitutional Revolution' as an Historical Problem by Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Making Sense of America by Christopher Clausen
Fiction by Kent Nelson, M.C. Allan, Elizabeth Denton, Karl Iagnemma
Poetry by Andrew Feld, Renate Wood, Debra Nystrom, Bill Christophersen, Carol Henrie, Charles Harper Webb, Gerry LaFemina, Ali Yuce