The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt
Robert Gottlieb's vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force.
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl
[3 fragments of Mimnermos] [3 fragments of Mimnermos]
Translated from the Greek by Anne Carson
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Anne Carson
The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering
Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance is a demanding and flawed attempt to regard the pain of others through photographs.
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frances Richard
Burning Down the House: On Ed Koch Burning Down the House: On Ed Koch
Ed Koch rebuilt New York City by demolishing its long-running experiments in urban liberalism.
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp
Katrina vanden Heuvel Calls Out Unpatriotic Millionaires on The Ed Show Katrina vanden Heuvel Calls Out Unpatriotic Millionaires on The Ed Show
Katrina vanden Heuvel asks, are the millionaires in Congress are out of touch with the American public? In a word: yes.
Nov 23, 2010 / MSNBC
Puzzle No. 1611 Puzzle No. 1611
This puzzle originally appeared in the December 13, 1975, issue.
Nov 23, 2010 / Frank W. Lewis
The Voice of Experience The Voice of Experience
Never leave a man behind.
Nov 23, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Home for Thanksgiving Home for Thanksgiving
Just before Thanksgiving in 1960, The Nation published W.S. Merwin's poem for the holiday.
Nov 23, 2010 / W.S. Merwin
Will Congress Turn Its Back on Jobless Americans? Will Congress Turn Its Back on Jobless Americans?
A minority in the House of Representatives has blocked reauthorization of federal unemployment benefits. If Congress doesn't act quickly, the long-term unemployed will start dr...
Nov 23, 2010 / Christine Owens
Epitaph for Ben Sonnenberg Epitaph for Ben Sonnenberg
But still! being but a tree one cannot ask them pines touched by his sleeve's passing where to go I know not when he was buried glancing over the land going up that road ("to wait for a faraway person" sounding like the word for "pines") under the pines when spring came along the road my beloved prince he will have been perfect while the shining days are piled up how strangely awful to utter it on the death and burial of one prince this is a song. This is a song on the death and burial of one prince to utter it how strangely awful while the shining days are piled up he will have been perfect my beloved prince when spring came along the road under the pines (the word for "pines" sounding like the word "to wait for a faraway person") going up that road, glancing over the land when he was buried I know not where to go pines touched by his sleeve's passing one cannot ask them being but a tree, but still!
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Anne Carson