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Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Side Effects
Hollywood Ending? (Books & Arts, Film)

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night

Stuart Klawans
Hacker Unearths Paintings by George W. Bush (Humor)
Calvin Trillln
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You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting (Books & Arts, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Non-fiction)

Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.

David Auerbach
In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules (America as Empire, Books & Arts, History, Non-fiction)

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

Richard Kreitner
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Stalker (Books & Arts, Autobiography and Memoir, Internet and New Media, Non-fiction)

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

Caleb Crain
The Task Ahead (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry (Books & Arts, Covert Ops, Law, War on Terrorism)

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Samuel Moyn
Portrait of Victor Shklovsky
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky (Books & Arts, Autobiography and Memoir, Fine Art, Fiction, Literary Criticism)

A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.

Ben Ehrenreich
Photo of Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Religion, Shelf Life)

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger’s Jews and Words.

Laura Brahm
Noted (Political Analysis, Nation History)

Judith Long on Jane Sharples, Allison Kilkenny on the fight for Philly’s schools

Various Contributors

Blogs

This Week in 'Nation' History: Reviewers Have Argued About 'Gatsby' Since 1925
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The debate surrounding Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation is nothing new.

May 18, 2013
This Week: Moving Feminism Forward
Katrina vanden Heuvel

We’ve come a long way, but we’ve a long way to go in progress for women’s rights.

March 9, 2013
Football at Ground Zero: The 'Atom Bowl', Nagasaki, New Year's Day, 1946
Greg Mitchell

Was this the wildest football game ever?

December 31, 2012
'Django Unchained': Quentin Tarantino’s Answer to Spielberg’s 'Lincoln'
Jon Wiener

In one film, grateful black people; in the other, the vengeful ones.

December 25, 2012
Rhyme Is All I've Got: A Q&A With Calvin Trillin
Jon Wiener

How do you rhyme “Obama” with “Yokahama”?

December 16, 2012
Shaken and Stirred
Eric Alterman

Some details in Skyfall are just too silly to accept.

November 29, 2012
Peter Dreier: 'We Stand On the Shoulders' of Social Justice Activists
Nation in the News

From Barbara Ehrenreich to Paul Wellstone, changemakers fighting for equality are the real American heroes. 

October 15, 2012
Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: Politics in 1960
Jon Wiener

During his Congressional run in 1960, the late writer and Nation contributor fired back at a less-than-friendly newspaper publisher.

October 8, 2012
Ralph Nader, 'Lone Ranger,' Rides Again
William Greider

Nader’s The Seventeen Solutions is a subversive primer that should be read in every high school civics class.

October 4, 2012
Dear Hanna Rosin: I'm Doing Fine! Love, the Patriarchy
Bryce Covert

The End of Men’s prediction of an American matriarchy fails to define what that would actually entail.

October 2, 2012
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