When FDR Took On the Supreme Court When FDR Took On the Supreme Court
The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?
Jun 27, 2023 / Books & the Arts / John Fabian Witt
How the Supreme Court Got This Powerful How the Supreme Court Got This Powerful
It goes all the way back to Marbury v. Madison.
Jun 27, 2023 / Stan Mack
What My Parents Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy What My Parents Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy
I learned from an early age that honoring an individual’s wishes for their body is a sacred act.
Jun 27, 2023 / Feature / Angela Garbes
Don DeLillo’s Cold Wars Don DeLillo’s Cold Wars
His 1980s novels take the story of America’s postwar years, usually seen as a triumphal rise to perpetual dominance, and converts it into one about a long and chaotic decline.
Jun 26, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
Without Apology: Abortion in Literature Without Apology: Abortion in Literature
Some of the most powerful, important abortion narratives show working-class women terminating their pregnancies without regret or anguish.
Jun 26, 2023 / Feature / Edna Bonhomme
“The Nation” Leads the Relaunch of “Bookforum” “The Nation” Leads the Relaunch of “Bookforum”
Resurrecting a leading voice of US literary criticism, the quarterly will remain editorially independent, with the first new issue out August 2023.
Jun 22, 2023 / Press Room
Nona Fernandez and the Black Hole of Collective Memory Nona Fernandez and the Black Hole of Collective Memory
Her book-length essay Voyager examines life after Pinochet—and the disjunctures in public remembering the era produced—through an exploration of the stars.
Jun 22, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Paige Inman
Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire
He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.
Jun 21, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
The Unsettled Life and Art of Jimmie Durham The Unsettled Life and Art of Jimmie Durham
A retrospective in Naples magnifies the mystery of the conceptual artist’s work.
Jun 21, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
If Donald Trump Went to Jail for Violating the Espionage Act, He’d Be an Exception If Donald Trump Went to Jail for Violating the Espionage Act, He’d Be an Exception
It’s only whistleblowers who do hard time. Generals and high officials typically get just a slap on the wrist.
Jun 20, 2023 / James Bamford