Sheltering In Place Sheltering In Place
Life in a time of pandemic.
Feb 2, 2021 / OppArt / Mirko Ilic
The Body, the State, the Border: On Cristina Rivera Garza The Body, the State, the Border: On Cristina Rivera Garza
Her fiction and essays illuminates how the language of violence is inherent to the disaster neoliberalism wrought in Mexico.
Feb 2, 2021 / Claire Mullen
When ‘The Nation’ Pushed for the Formation of the State of Israel When ‘The Nation’ Pushed for the Formation of the State of Israel
Back in early 2009, I took a leave of absence from my job as an editor in The Nation’s New York office to spend a few months reporting and researching in Israel-Palestine. It was m…
Feb 1, 2021 / Roane Carey
Perverse and Unfair: The Radical Steps to Fix the Housing Crisis Perverse and Unfair: The Radical Steps to Fix the Housing Crisis
On the history of the single-family home in America, alternative modes of housing, and what it will take to fix the housing market.
Feb 1, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Marianela D’Aprile
Does Christopher Hitchens Need an Authorized Biography? Does Christopher Hitchens Need an Authorized Biography?
Attempts by the former Nation columnist’s widow and literary agent to police a biography are both futile and short-sighted.
Jan 29, 2021 / Feature / David Nasaw
Charles Mills Thinks Liberalism Still Has a Chance Charles Mills Thinks Liberalism Still Has a Chance
A wide-ranging conversation with the philosopher on the white supremacist roots of liberal thought, Biden’s victory, and Trumpism without Trump.
Jan 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
The (Extra)ordinary Work of Women The (Extra)ordinary Work of Women
Embroidery reads: “Speaking up again and again and again,” “Fighting harder for what you have earned,” “Resilience, perseverance, and exhaustion,” etc
Jan 27, 2021 / OppArt / Suzanne Faris
Lying Down Lying Down
Every body that hits the ground in Hell will get up should they choose it. There’s plenty of death and destruction but no dead. All ends are artificial, wishful thinking, and even…
Jan 27, 2021 / Poems / Dustin Pearson
Luca Guadagnino’s Meditation on Youth Luca Guadagnino’s Meditation on Youth
His HBO series We Are Who We Are looks at teenagehood less as a time in one’s life than as a mindset one inhabits.
Jan 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Yeats’ Stance Yeats’ Stance
When I was about twenty I went by myself up into the towerthe holy place and never questioned it, but felt I could never be of it. You could feel it in the air this power like bein…
Jan 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jean Valentine