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From this week’s Spring Humor Issue: why political candidates need to make fun of themselves.
by Elizabeth Kolbert

This week in the magazine, Anthony Lane writes about a family obsession with P. G. Wodehouse. Here, from 1960, is a Talk of the Town story about a milestone in the author’s life.
by Geoffrey T. Hellman

Leon Fleisher’s exuberant exploration of Schubert.
by Alex Ross

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Jon Lee Anderson, who is reporting from Baghdad for The New Yorker, talks to Amy Davidson about the Fallujah uprising, Moqtada al-Sadr, and why it may be too late to win Iraqi hearts and minds.
The widening war in Iraq.
by David Remnick
The New Yorkers complete coverage of the war and its aftermath.

Today, the former F.B.I. director Louis Freeh testifies before the 9/11 commission. In this piece, from May, 2001, Elsa Walsh examines Freeh’s career.
by Elsa Walsh
Richard Clarke has said that John O’Neill, of the F.B.I., was one of the few who recognized the Al Qaeda threat. Here, from January, 2002, is a Profile of O’Neill, who was killed on September 11, 2001.
by Lawrence Wright
The New Yorkers complete coverage of the terrorist attacks and what followed.
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