Culture

Nation Poetry

Dad Bod Dad Bod

Apr 30, 2025 / Poems / Tomás Q. Morín

The Bloody Blues of “Sinners”

The Bloody Blues of “Sinners” The Bloody Blues of “Sinners”

Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster horror period piece sets out to reinvent the creature feature—for better and for worse.

Apr 30, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse

Writing on the Floor

Writing on the Floor Writing on the Floor

A Visibility Brigade action, on a bridge over a highway in Paramus, New Jersey.

Apr 29, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Guancione and Kimberly Miller

The crew of “Missing” arriving for the screening at the 35th Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 1982.

Chile in Our Hearts Chile in Our Hearts

John Dinges’s revisionist account of Missing.

Apr 29, 2025 / Steven Volk

Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics

Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics

Rental House, a novel of marriage and manners, tries to make sense of how a blended family negotiates conflicts of race and class.

Apr 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Camille Bromley

Tom Morello and Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine perform as part of a free concert at Finsbury Park on June 6, 2010, in London, England.

MAGA Followers Think They’re Punk Rock—but Then Why Are They All Such Cowards? MAGA Followers Think They’re Punk Rock—but Then Why Are They All Such Cowards?

Trump supporters may think they’re hardcore, but they seem to be afraid of op-eds, books, and history they can’t even bear to read.

Apr 29, 2025 / Dave Zirin

The future president in Trump Tower circa 1987.

Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview

His policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart.

Apr 28, 2025 / Kate Wagner

A woman wearing a sweatshirt for the QAnon conspiracy theory gestures during a pro-Trump rally on October 11, 2020, in Ronkonkoma, New York.

Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction

In Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism, he attempts to diagnose the apocalyptic nature of conservatism around the world.

Apr 28, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Nathan Taylor Pemberton

Snow White

Snow White Snow White

Remake.

Apr 25, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Nation Poetry

Amistad Gambusia Amistad Gambusia

Apr 25, 2025 / Poems / Cecily Parks

x