National Magazine Awards
Following are links to selected nominees for the 2004 awards. See the complete list of winners.

Reporting
"The Killer Elite", From Hell to Baghdad", "The Battle for Baghdad", Evan Wright, Rolling Stone
"Columbia's Last Flight", William Langewiesche, The Atlantic Monthly
"The David Kelly Affair", John Cassidy, The New Yorker
"The Sum of Two Evils", Brian Bennett and Michael Weisskopf, "The Secret Collaborators", Brian Bennett and Michael Ware, Time

Public Interest
"The Dark Art of Interrogation," Mark Bowden, The Atlantic Monthly (Interview)
"Is Your Job Next?," Pete Engardio, Aaron Bernstein, and Manjeet Kripalani, "The Rise of India," Manjeet Kripalani and Pete Engardio, Business Week
"Lunch With the Chairman", "Selective Intelligence", "The Stovepipe," Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
"The $87 Billion Money Pit," Rod Nordland and Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
"Malpractice Makes Perfect," Stephanie Mencimer, The Washington Monthly

Feature Writing
"The Falling Man," Tom Junod, Esquire
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," Tucker Carlson, Esquire
"The Marriage Cure," Katherine Boo, The New Yorker
"Yesterday, They Would Have Died," Michael Rosenwald, Popular Science

Columns & Commentary
Michael Wolff, New York Magazine
"Live From Doha"
"My Big Fat Question"
"Al Jazeera's Edge"
Alan Ehrenhalt, Governing
"Devolution's Double Standard"
"Republicans Behaving Badly"
"Machine Politics".
Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
"Down to Earth"
"Building Nations"
"Rush in Rehab"
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
"Here's a Bet for Mr. Rumsfeld"
"And He's Head of Intelligence?"
"No Way to Make Friends"

Photo Portfolio/Essay
"Tigers of the Snow," Martin Schoeller, Outside
"A Soldier's Life," James Nachtwey, Time
"21st Century Slaves," Jodi Cobb, National Geographic
More photos by Martin Schoeller, James Nachtwey and Jodi Cobb.

Fiction
Zoetrope: All-Story
"The Phrenologists's Dream," Karl Iagnemma
"The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones," Julie Orringer
The Atlantic Monthly
"Happy Hour," Alison Baker
"We Have a Pope!," Christopher Buckley
"Yao's Chick," Max Apple
"What is Visible," Kimberly Elkins
"Monstress," Lysley Tenorio
"Ghost-Birds," Nicolas Pizzolatto
The New Yorker
"A Rich Man," Edward P. Jones
"Runaway", Alice Munro
"Debarking," Lorrie Moore
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