Books

Shelf Life

John Palattella : Cuba

Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.

Back Talk: Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor

Christine Smallwood

A conversation with the authors of On Kindness.

Galeano: Stories of Almost Everyone

GRIT TV

Why are so many people so scared? Maybe it's because of our rulers' enormous 'fear machine.' So says Eduardo Galeano, in this rare interview.

Green Acres

Greg Grandin : Books, Literature, & Ideas

Percy Harrison Fawcett went to the Amazon looking for paradise. He never returned.

The Wait

Elaine Blair

In The Queue, Vladimir Sorokin offers a biting and hilarious portrait of a central ritual of Soviet life.

A Nameless Vocation

Ange Mlinko : Autobiography & Memoir

In The Winter Sun, Fanny Howe proves to be a reluctant and rebellious memoirist.

Antica e Moderna

Susan Stewart : Poetry

The poems of Umberto Saba let tradition speak to and through modernity.

There Will Always Be Blood

Lorna Scott Fox : Non-Fiction

An anthology of true crime writing appeals to the culture vulture--and the plain old vulture--in us.

Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir, Part 2

Images from the graphic novel about the 1982 Lebanon War.

Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir

Lebanon

Images from the graphic novel about the 1982 Lebanon War.

Living Liberally

VideoNation

Author and Nation senior editor Richard Lingeman unveils his new book--a virtual one-stop shop for liberals across America.

Radio Nation with Laura Flanders

Radio Nation : Education Policy & Reform

Liberal living coast to coast. A look at the forthcoming Nation Guide to the Nation, with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Plus: Patty Hearst and Obama's education choice.

Homing Patterns

William Deresiewicz : Fiction

Marilynne Robinson's new novel explores faith, loneliness and the national passion play of race.

Q&A With Thomas Frank

Christopher Hayes : Conservatives & The American Right

The central thesis of Thomas Frank's new book, The Wrecking Crew, is that the kind of obscene depravity witnessed at the Department. of Interior is the natural result of the conservative philosophy of governance.

Back Talk: Elizabeth Royte

Christine Smallwood : Water

Environmental writer Elizabeth Royte plumbs our obsession with bottled water.

Speak Again, Memory

Greg Grandin : Non-Fiction

Readers of Fidel Castro's My Life will find explanations of the Cuban Revolution, but no apologies for its suppression of dissent.