John Palattella

Literary Editor

John Palattella is literary editor of The Nation. His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The Nation, the London Review of Books, Bookforum and Boston Review.

Currently

  • Shelf Life

    January 28, 2010

    Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.

2009

  • Laurels for Ange Mlinko

    April 14, 2009

    Poet and Nation contributor Ange Mlinko has won the Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism for work that is "eclectic and astringent yet always lucid and generous."

  • Bad Paper

    February 18, 2009

    Does the author of They Knew They Were Right really think he has done nothing wrong?

2008

  • Hello Cruel World

    June 26, 2008

    The narrative journalism of David Samuels finds conversation, color and conflict in the vortex of American life.

2007

  • Lines of Resistance

    February 1, 2007

    Rhetorical acts of defiance define the work of three contemporary Palestinian poets.

2006

  • Poetry, From Noun to Verb

    August 31, 2006 Subscribe

    Nathaniel Mackey's most recent collection of subtle, intricate poetry weaves images from Arab and African diasporas with a contemporary sense of dislocation.

  • La Vie de Bohème

    January 4, 2006 Subscribe

    Drawing from the New York counterculture in which he immersed himself, Ted Berrigan's sonnets and other poems sing beautifully about being broken and graceful and tough.

2005

  • Prosaic Judgments

    June 29, 2005 Subscribe

    Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual poems.

  • Patrimony

    April 21, 2005 Subscribe

    Kevin Young updates the Harlem Renaissance for the hip-hop generation.

2004

2003

2002

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Blogs

» The Beat

RNC's Steele Decides It Is O.K. to Play the Race Card | "Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?” he wonders. Maybe he could compare notes with Obama.
John Nichols
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» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
34 Comments

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
49 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
36 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
63 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
62 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman