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Volume 51, Number 2 · February 12, 2004

Marshall Frady, An American Tragedy

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney

Richard Murphy, Rite of Passage (poem)

Anne Applebaum, Pulling the Rug Out from Under

The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 by Terry Martin

Russell Baker, Back to Normalcy!

Warren G. Harding by John W. Dean

Elizabeth Drew, Hung Up in Washington

Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever by Tom Daschle, with Michael D'Orso

Thomas Powers, Spy Fever

Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America by Ted Morgan

Ahmed Rashid, The Mess in Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Bonn Agreement One Year Later: A Catalog of Missed Opportunities by Human Rights Watch

"We Want to Live as Humans": Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan by Human Rights Watch

All Our Hopes Are Crushed: Violence and Repression in Western Afghanistan by Human Rights Watch

"Killing You Is a Very Easy Thing for Us": Human Rights Abuses in Southeast Afghanistan by Human Rights Watch

Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace? by an Independent Task Force cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society

The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security by Kofi Annan to the General Assembly of the United Nations

Michael Tomasky, New York's Finest

The Great Mayor: Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of the City of New York by Alyn Brodsky

Sherwin B. Nuland, Getting in Nature's Way

The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement by Sheila M. Rothman and David J. Rothman

Tim Parks, Love Letter

SS Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen

Andrew Hacker, The Underworld of Work

The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age by Simon Head

Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences by William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder, and Edward N. Wolff

Low-Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace edited by Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt, and Richard J. Murnane

Daniel Mendelsohn, Winged Messages

Angels in America directed by Mike Nichols, screenplay by Tony Kushner, based on his play.

Bernard-Henri Levy, William Dalrymple, 'Murder in Karachi': An Exchange

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Letters

Hume Horan, Mark Danner, 'Delusions in Baghdad'
Peter H. Schuck, Andrew Hacker, 'Diversity in America'
Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Jonathan D. Spence, He Spelled It 'Happily'
Nicholas Deutsch, Another Wilder Opera

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Contributors

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Poland. (October 2008)

Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (November 2008)

Elizabeth Drew, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of twelve books.

Marshall Frady's books include Wallace, Billy Graham, Southerners, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, and, most recently, Martin Luther King, Jr. He is currently writing a biography of Fidel Castro. (February 2004)

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently writing a book on higher education in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. (September 2008)

Daniel Mendelsohn is the author, most recently, of How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of essays mostly from these pages. His translations, with commentary, of Constantine Cavafy’s Complete Works and Unfinished Poems will be published next spring. (November 2008)

Richard Murphy's most recent books are Collected Poems and The Kick: A Life Among Writers. (February 2004)

Sherwin B. Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery and a Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. He is the author of How We Die, which won the National Book Award in 1994, and Lost in America. (December 2005)

Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of English Literature at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Cleaver. (September 2008)

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist and writer. He is the author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia and Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, which is published this month. He is a BBC contributor and writes for the Daily Telegraph and the International Herald Tribune. (June 2008)

Michael Tomasky is Editor of Guardian America and writes a blog at www.guardian.co.uk. (December 2008)

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