Quantcast

Nation Topics - Books and the Arts | The Nation

Topic Page

Nation Topics - Books and the Arts

Subsections:

Arts and Entertainment Books and Ideas

Articles

News and Features

Consumer Climates (Books & Arts, Climate Change)

Climate change and its political repercussions.

Michael T. Klare
A Question (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Henry David Thoreau statue
Thoreau's Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry (Climate Change, Literature, Philosophy)

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?

Wen Stephenson
Brain scan
Adventures in Neurohumanities (Books & Arts, Science, Fiction)

Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?

Alissa Quart
photo of Friedrich Hayek in his study, 1960
Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek (Books & Arts, Economics, Philosophy)

How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.

Corey Robin
Taylor Swift at the Z100 Jingle Ball, New York City, 2012
Red Country: On Taylor Swift (Books & Arts, Music, Pop & Circumstance)

Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?

Joshua Clover
Barbara Bush on White House Dynasties (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
MoMA
MoMA's Demolition Derby (Architecture)

In defiance of its mission to preserve important works, the Museum of Modern Art has decided to raze the Folk Art building.

Barry Schwabsky
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink,  civil wars, Asif Ali Zardari
With Friends Like These: On Pakistan (Books & Arts, Foreign Policy, Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action, World)

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

Christian Parenti
Portrait of Charlie Parker
Post-White? On 'Blues for Smoke' (Books & Arts, Fine Art)

The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.

Barry Schwabsky

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
Why Does the Press Still Take the Heritage Foundation Seriously?
Eric Alterman

The think tank has long since compromised its intellectual integrity, yet the media continue to trumpet flawed reports like the latest one on immigration reform.

May 10, 2013
When Eleanor Roosevelt Got MGM to Fire Lionel Barrymore From a Pro-Bomb Epic
Greg Mitchell

 Another unusual fact about MGM's planned 1947 film on Truman and the bomb.

May 5, 2013
The Bush Presidency, Undead
Eric Alterman

With the opening of George W's presidential library, pundits are rushing to whitewash the memory of those years of folly.

April 26, 2013
'Cape Fear,' and Our Fear
Rick Perlstein

In the wake of 9/11 and Boston, is it even possible to imagine a movie that makes civil liberties an integral part of its dramatic arc?

April 23, 2013
Chrissy Amphlett's Pleasure Anthem
Chloe Angyal

In 2013, a song like “I Touch Myself” is less shocking than it once was. But it is still revolutionary.

April 22, 2013
Give Me the Bad News First
Eric Alterman

Press coverage is hasty, error-prone and frequently depressing—but it nonetheless plays a vital role in our society.

April 18, 2013
Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?
Leslie Savan

Cable TV’s top hit is used to justify every political point of view—right or left, pro-NRA or pro-gun control, even pro-sequester or pro-stimulus.

April 5, 2013
The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media
Rick Perlstein

A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale.

April 3, 2013
Alex Gibney Interview on Early Media Controversy Over His WikiLeaks Film
Greg Mitchell

Julian Assange himself has criticized the film, but the director says Assange should watch it first.

April 3, 2013
Close

Ad Policy