Nation Topics - James Baldwin | The Nation

From the ethnic studies ban to firings over Travyon Martin, a strange hostility toward progressive education is emerging.

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

The Cross of Redemption tells the story of James Baldwin as a working writer: casual, lax and preachy, but also honest, angry and brilliant.

The publication of The Cross of Redemption is an occasion to revisit some of the many fine essays and reviews written for The Nation by Baldwin, who was a member of the magazine's editorial board.

Elizabeth Hardwick found New York's jittery impermanence and inchoate density to be an obstacle for the fiction writer.

How Barack Obama has fashioned a personal and political identity by treating the history of the civil rights movement as a usable past.

Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz and Alfred Chester contribute to the education of an editor. Second of a two-part memoir.

Coming to terms with a black American not as a symbol of protest, but as a symbol of power.

Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.

For Studs Terkel, the touchstone is memory and speech the stuff of which his art is made.