Nation Topics - Books and the Arts | The Nation

My Tante Rezia was a patron of the arts, one of those silent supporters that every family, every artist, has and needs but rarely acknowledges.

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.

How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

How the neoliberal urban development schemes of the Mubarak regime have gained new life under the Muslim Brotherhood.

Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?