House Republicans Plan Symbolic Repeal Vote on the Healthcare Law House Republicans Plan Symbolic Repeal Vote on the Healthcare Law
"We'll show the poor."
Jan 13, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Empty Rooms: On Nicole Krauss Empty Rooms: On Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss's Great House swings from the evocative to the overcharged.
Jan 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Alexandra Schwartz
Literature and Exile Literature and Exile
Books are the only homeland of the true writer, books that may sit on shelves or in the memory.
Jan 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Roberto BolaƱo
Vanishing Points: Language Poetry Remembered Vanishing Points: Language Poetry Remembered
The Grand Piano is a highbrow Friends—a collective history of the early years of Language poetry.
Jan 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Little Pick Eye Little Pick Eye
Little Pick Eye turned William over like the boots his mama left in the hall. Stupid pickle gulls pulled the hair out of his head. Call him kid flower and I guess over time stiffened and plucked is how you might describe him. The main thing to remember is that it's not your fault. You didn't introduce him to the cigar. You didn't give him a hottie tottie when he got froze outa school and you aint gonna straighten him out with a crowbar now. Dogs dancing with their big old teeth, bars a shakin, neighbors scramin neighbors. You pay good money to live somewhere and then wammo, God makes it snow all over your car. Odds are bad you called for advice but advice is what you're gonna get: Work to be the bastard Live to be the bastard And then be the bastard That, or they'll take your money right out of the bank in front of your eyes and tell ya about it. Now Git. Now Git! Now Git! You didn't make it, we just gave it to you for something you did.
Jan 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Beckman
This Week at TheNation.com: Hope in 2011. Plus: A New Nation Fellow This Week at TheNation.com: Hope in 2011. Plus: A New Nation Fellow
Hope in 2011. Plus: The Nation Institute welcomes a new fellow.
Jan 7, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase
Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
The Message Other Mayors Got From How Newark’s Corey Booker Came Out of the Great Storm The Message Other Mayors Got From How Newark’s Corey Booker Came Out of the Great Storm
It was the ultimate photo-op.
Jan 6, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Hope in 2011 Hope in 2011
The arc of history bends towards justice, but it will not bend by itself.
Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Today’s Color Line Today’s Color Line
America may have a black president—but very few other African-Americans have been elected to political office.
Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner