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D.D. Guttenplan : History
Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.

D.D. Guttenplan : History
Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.
JoAnn Wypijewski : Sex & Sexuality
Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.
Malcolm Gladwell's success as a brand-name thinker rests on the assumption that the unexamined life is the only sort his readers could be living.
Nation contributor Barbara Ehrenreich presents Bright Sided, her new book about the negative aspect of positive thinking.
Eliot Weinberger's enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.
D.D. Guttenplan : Great Britain
Taking a cue from FDR, Britain launches the New Deal of the Mind.
The Nobel Prize-winning author talks about Barack Obama, the writer; language; and her new novel, A Mercy.
Christine Smallwood : Non-Fiction
What possessed the fierce individualist George R. Stewart to compile a history of place-naming in the United States?
André Schiffrin : Nation History
Studs Terkel's longtime publisher looks back on the historian's remarkable career.
Edward Rothstein separates Studs Terkel's politics from his oral history, proving he doesn't understand the man's legacy at all.
Veteran journalist Dick Meyer discusses America's love-hate relationship with itself.
Five books explore the sorrows and moral complexity of Irène Némirovsky and others who suffered Nazi persecution in France.
Eric Alterman : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Why do conservatives continue to feel oppressed by the "liberal elite"?
Howard Zinn : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.
Stephen Duncombe : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."
Anna Deavere Smith : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.
The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry.
