Maria Margaronis

Contributing Editor

Maria Margaronis writes from The Nation's London bureau. Some of her translations are forthcoming in The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, edited by Peter Constantine, Edmund Keeley, Rachel Hadas and Karen Van Dyck (Norton).

Currently

  • The UK's Climate Rebels

    November 19, 2009

    Some of the best activism is happening in Britain--but in policy terms, payoff has been slight.

  • Mixing History and Desire

    July 15, 2009

    A new collection of C.P. Cavafy's beautiful, musical poems.

  • Europe Lurches Right

    June 10, 2009 Subscribe

    In the European parliamentary elections, the center-right has won at the expense of social democrats.

2008

  • Greece in Flames, Again

    December 9, 2008

    The police shooting of a boy in Greece has unleashed the fury of a lost generation of youth and the seething resentment of a society betrayed by a corrupt and incompetent government.

  • London: The Nightmare is Over

    November 5, 2008

    When the votes were finally counted, Europe's wish to usher George W. Bush into the dustbin of history made for widespread jubilation.

2007

  • Greece: The Fire This Time

    September 13, 2007 Subscribe

    In the wake of catastrophic fires, Greek voters face a moment of "disaster capitalism," as key environmental and economic decisions determine how to rebuild.

  • The Things They Carried

    March 1, 2007 Subscribe

    The Bastard of Istanbul, a saga of two interwoven families, bravely violates Turkish taboo with its description of the Armenian genocide.

2006

  • Pamuk's Prize

    October 16, 2006

    If Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk is a political writer, it is by virtue of his sympathy for what is old and faded, for what no longer matters, or what never did.

2005

  • After the Bombs

    July 14, 2005 Subscribe

    Friends in the States seemed to assume that this was London's 9/11--it wasn't.

  • London After the Bombing

    July 7, 2005

    The attacks seemed designed to maximize fear, not casualties.

  • Kindred Spirits

    May 26, 2005 Subscribe

    Michael Cunningham delivers a historical/noir/sci-fi novel haunted by 9/11 and Walt Whitman.

  • Blair: Mistrust Grows

    April 28, 2005 Subscribe

    Labour's big tent is shrinking.

2004

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