Ben Ehrenreich | The Nation

A novelist’s lyrical attempt to measure the immeasurable.

Frederic Tuten's Self Portraits is a backward glance on life that's vital, wistful and filled with sweet ache.

With C, Tom McCarthy asks us to see fiction as a crafty and adventurous playmate unafraid of its mortality.

Because of Gaza, "everything is tainted" in Israel, according to Gideon Levy.

At the US Social Forum, activists discuss how to meet basic needs—and take on the system.

At the US Social Forum in Detroit, activists from diverse backgrounds are making common cause.

The Latin American utopia has disappeared, says novelist and crackero Jorge Volpi, and he displays little nostalgia for it.

In Evelio Rosero's The Armies, war is like the Law in Kafka: cruel, implacable and coldly divine.

In the latest push to privatize public education, regents at the University of California have raised tuition by 32 percent.

In boom and in bust, homeless encampments are a product of inequality and neglect.