Madness in the Method: On ‘Homeland’ Madness in the Method: On ‘Homeland’
Afflicted with a mental disorder, Carrie Mathison is an unlikely American hero, and seems a bad bet besides.
Apr 10, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Miriam Markowitz
‘It Happens At All Bases, All Branches’: An Interview with the Makers of ‘The Invisible War’ ‘It Happens At All Bases, All Branches’: An Interview with the Makers of ‘The Invisible War’
Director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering tell The Nation what the military can do to prevent sexual assault.
Apr 10, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Anna Simonton
My So-Called ‘Post-Feminist’ Life in Arts and Letters My So-Called ‘Post-Feminist’ Life in Arts and Letters
Slut-shaming, name-calling and no respect: welcome to life in literary America for a twenty-first-century female author.
Apr 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Deborah Copaken Kogan
Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On? Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?
Cable TV’s top hit is used to justify every political point of view—right or left, pro-NRA or pro-gun control, even pro-sequester or pro-stimulus.
Apr 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Savan
ADHD Diagnoses Rise Sharply ADHD Diagnoses Rise Sharply
So hyperactivity’s now on the rise, Though overprescribing is also suspected. Could this be a hyperactivity plague? At least we know Congress has not been affected.
Apr 3, 2013 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Kircher’s Cosmos: On Athanasius Kircher Kircher’s Cosmos: On Athanasius Kircher
How did a man who got so many things wrong become an intellectual celebrity in his own lifetime?
Apr 3, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Paula Findlen
Now That April’s Here Now That April’s Here
Snow paid attention, left the white pines scarred and the springtime yard rife with life and destruction. Moss hair back from the dead brings the Green Man’s head softly, softly, underfoot right beside the maple root that quotes Sévigné‚ up the budding tree: “Spring is red.”
Apr 3, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Christina Robb
Hunter-Blatherer: On Jared Diamond Hunter-Blatherer: On Jared Diamond
An unreliable anthropologist of traditional societies is a no less dubious diagnostician of the contemporary world.
Apr 3, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Wertheim
The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media
A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale...
Apr 3, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
The Doomsday Prepper Caucus The Doomsday Prepper Caucus
Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.
Apr 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Reed Richardson