- The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

- The Night Country by Loren Eiseley

- The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck

- The Collected Poems of Conrad Aiken by Conrad Aiken

- All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner

- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

- Ghost Town: Tales of Manahattan, Then and Now by Patrick McGrath

- Chip Kidd, Book One, Work: 1986 – 2000 by Chip Kidd, introduced by John Updike

- The Maytrees by Annie Dillard

- Heyday by Kurt Andersen

- Wall Street Noir edited by Peter Spiegelman

- “Yeah, But It’s Beautifully Written.” (On The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje)

- “The Greatest Goddamn Thing That Ever Was” And, at This Rate, Will Never Be Again.
  (On contemporary poetry.)

- What Is a Publisher? For That Matter, What is a Book?
  (On the future of publishing, under the pseudonym Gregory Alexander.)

- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

- Mission Accomplished by Khalil Bendib

- Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

- Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture
  by Christine L. Marran

- The Godfather’s Revenge by Mark Winegardner

- The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux

- The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness by Jeff Warren

- What a President Should Know by Lawrence B. Lindsey

- Contraptions by Heath Robinson

- Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg

- The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen edited by Maria Tatar

- Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus

- Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison

- America America by Ethan Canin

- Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

- America's Leading Literary Magazine Goes Postal

- Letter to the Editor of McSweeney's Magazine