Culture

Broadway opening night for Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at Circle in the Square Theatre on March 18, 2024.

Protests Are Supposed to Be an Inconvenience Protests Are Supposed to Be an Inconvenience

Critics of the climate activists who interrupted a recent Broadway play are missing the point.

Mar 19, 2024 / Caroline Levine

The United Farm Worker's 1,000 Mile March, 1975.

How Unions Are Made How Unions Are Made

A new history of labor organizing in Coachella tells us not only the story of the United Farm Workers but also how its rank-and-file members drove the union to success.

Mar 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Juan Ignacio Mora

Lucy Sante

Lucy Sante and the Solitude and Solidarity of Transitioning Lucy Sante and the Solitude and Solidarity of Transitioning

In her new memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name, Sante dissects her past in order to understand her future.

Mar 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Burt

Nation Poetry

Sentencing Sentencing

Mar 18, 2024 / Poems / Àkpà Árinzèchukwu

The Flame Lights, but Doesn’t Cause Burns

The Flame Lights, but Doesn’t Cause Burns The Flame Lights, but Doesn’t Cause Burns

Oaxaca, Mexico: The role art plays to empower the people.

Mar 14, 2024 / Anonymous

A person views Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid on April 3, 2017.

Art During Wartime Art During Wartime

Can it really be that to call for sympathy with victims of murder and kidnapping is necessarily to demand violence in return?

Mar 14, 2024 / Barry Schwabsky

Molly Ranson, Nael Nacer, and Aria Shahghasemi in “Prayer for the French Republic.”

A Broadway Play’s Clumsy Intervention Into Antisemitism A Broadway Play’s Clumsy Intervention Into Antisemitism

Prayer for the French Republic is among a spate of recent dramas devoted to the precarity of Jewish life at the expense of solidarity.

Mar 14, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon

Bad Brains in London, 1987.

Black Punk Means Liberation Black Punk Means Liberation

The present and future of Black punk culture.

Mar 13, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Marc Bayard

“Masters of the Air,” With John Orloff

“Masters of the Air,” With John Orloff “Masters of the Air,” With John Orloff

On this episode of American Prestige, a discussion about the new Apple TV miniseries.

Mar 12, 2024 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

Nation Poetry

A Portrait of the Artist as I Hate You A Portrait of the Artist as I Hate You

Mar 12, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Spaide

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