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Maria Margaronis | The Nation

Maria Margaronis

Author Bios

Maria Margaronis

Maria Margaronis

Contributing Editor

Maria Margaronis writes from The Nation's London bureau. Her work has appeared in many other publications, including the Guardian, the London Review of Books,  the Times Literary Supplement and Grand Street.

Articles

News and Features

Margaret Thatcher's smiling villainy sparked a generation of dissent—and neoliberal policies that live on today.

This tiny nation has been pushed off a cliff to "save" the eurozone. Reunification may be the only way to turn the island's fortunes around.

The financial crunch has broken the illusion of stability, exposing a deeper crisis of representation.

In less than two years, Athens has changed from a reasonably prosperous capital to a broken city.

The Stranger's Child traces the vanishing of same-sex love through suppression and then, paradoxically, acceptance and openness.

Returning to Athens after three months away, I found the state close to dissolution and people in despair.

The country is facing a convulsion unlike anything since the fall of the dictatorship in 1974.

Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.

No candidate for Labour Party leader has offered a challenge to the dominant view of Britain as a society living beyond its means, with the market setting the terms for what's possible.

In Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver, the uncertainties laid bare go to the heart of human relationships.

Blogs

Margaret Thatcher's smiling villainy sparked a generation of dissent—and neoliberal policies that live on today.
The plan to tax savers’ deposits in Cyprus's ailing banks will deepen political fault lines in the Eurozone—and hurt local...
A rash of bombs in Athens opens the way to further crackdowns.
In austerity-struck Greece, the police collude with neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, torture allegations go uninvestigated and journalists are...
The Greek election has brought the same old politicans back to power and neo-Nazi Golden Dawn into parliament.
Greek politics is in a state of molecular meltdown, but the election story told by European politicians and journalists doesn’t begin...
In the battle between the markets and democracy, it’s one to democracy—with all its flaws and pitfalls.
Almost all the candidates in the Greek election—on the same day as the French—see support for austerity as political suicide.