‘Do the Right Thing’: Still a Racial Rorschach at 20 ‘Do the Right Thing’: Still a Racial Rorschach at 20
Is Spike Lee's seminal film still relevant in the Obama era?
Aug 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Viveca Greene and Chris Tinson
Tyler Perry’s Gender Problem Tyler Perry’s Gender Problem
Filmmaker Tyler Perry may see himself as creating modern-day fairy tales for black women, but he's actually reinforcing some seriously conservative gender politics.
Aug 13, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Courtney Young
Creatures of the Night: On Park Chan-wook and the Dardennes Creatures of the Night: On Park Chan-wook and the Dardennes
Park Chan-wook's Thirst, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Lorna's Silence and Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman.
Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
A long-lost memoir of the Spanish Civil War moves jaggedly between boredom, fleeting triumphs and terror.
Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Dan Kaufman
In the Theater of Isak Dinesen In the Theater of Isak Dinesen
A reconsideration of the fictive truths behind a storyteller's many masks.
Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
Where Were the Birthers Born? Where Were the Birthers Born?
...And on what planet?
Aug 12, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Bill Douglas Bill Douglas
Sidney Zion celebrates the courage and independence of the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Aug 12, 2009 / Sidney Zion
How He Got That Story How He Got That Story
The maverick opinions of a a maverick reporter.
Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
King Cohn King Cohn
Roy Cohn was one of the most loathsome characters in American history, so why did he have so many influential friends?
Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill
Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
Nation contributor Christian Parenti describes the relationship between a fixer and a Western reporter in a haunting documentary about the kidnapping of his fixer in Afghanistan.
Aug 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / The Nation Video