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

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. (November 2010)

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, who lives in Washington, is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of fourteen books, including one of the first books on the role of money in modern US politics, from 1983.


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.

Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, will be published in March. He is the author of the best-selling Taliban, among other books, and lives in Lahore. (February 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 latest book is Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing. A new novel, The Server, will be published in 2012.

Andrew Hacker teaches at Queens College. His books include Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, and, most recently, Higher Education, written with Claudia Dreifus. (February 2012)

William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize. His new book, Nine Lives, will be published in the fall. (February 2009)

Michael Tomasky is Special Correspondent for Newsweek/The Daily Beast. He is also Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
 (February 2012)

Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of six books, including How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of critical essays mostly from The New York Review of Books. He is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard.

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. Parts of his essay in the Review‘s October 13, 2011 issue were drawn from his Tanner Lectures on Human Value at Stanford University, which will be published next year as Torture and the Forever War. His work can be found at markdanner.com.

Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, The Death of Woman Wang, and Return to Dragon Mountain. (December 2011)