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February 12, 2004 • Volume 51, Number 2

  • Marshall Frady

    An American Tragedy e-edition

    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) e-edition

  • 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! e-edition

    Warren G. Harding by John W. Dean

  • Elizabeth Drew

    Hung Up in Washington e-edition

    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 e-edition

    Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America by Ted Morgan

  • Ahmed Rashid

    The Mess in Afghanistan e-edition

    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 e-edition

    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 e-edition

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

  • Andrew Hacker

    The Underworld of Work e-edition

    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 e-edition

    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

LETTERS

Contributors

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)

Richard Murphy’s Collected Poems were published in 2001.

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post and Slate. Her most recent book is Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956.
 (June 2013)

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.

Elizabeth Drew is a regular contributor to The New York Review and the former Washington correspondent of The Atlantic and The New Yorker. She is the author of fourteen books.
 (March 2013)

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. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.


Ahmed Rashid is the author of Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. (September 2012)

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 Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His books include Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing and The Server.

Andrew Hacker teaches political science at Queens College. He is currently working on a book on mathematics with Claudia Dreifus.
 (January 2013)

William Dalrymple was the curator of “Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857,” an exhibition for the Asia Society in New York in 2012. His new book, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–42, is published this month. (June 2013)

Michael Tomasky is Special Correspondent for Newsweek/
The Daily Beast and Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
 (April 2013)

Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear frequently in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of the collection Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include two memoirs, a translation of the complete works of C.P. Cavafy, and a study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays. He teaches at Bard College.

Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. His book Torture and the Forever War will be published in the spring of 2013. His writing and other work can be found at markdanner.com.

Jonathan Spence is Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Death of Woman Wang, Treason by the Book, The Question of Hu, and The Search for Modern China.