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Under Siege: On Emma Williams Under Siege: On Emma Williams

A poignant memoir about life in the occupied territories during the second intifada.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Glass

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez

The novelist Dominique Fernandez struggles to understand his father's years as a Nazi collaborator.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan

Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee's Summertime and the fictions of self-deception.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott

Governor Meg Whitman? Governor Meg Whitman?

Katrina vanden Heuvel sits on a panel questioning GOP frontrunner, Meg Whitman, on her bid for California's gubernatorial seat.

Jan 28, 2010 / MSNBC

Extracting Recovery, Too? Extracting Recovery, Too?

Yesterday it was security, today's it's recovery: another nifty, ubiquitous word that means a whole lot of different things to different people.

Jan 28, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Slide Show: Blackwater’s Youngest Victim Slide Show: Blackwater’s Youngest Victim

The Nation presents images of the aftermath of the Nisour Square massacre, and the father who is trying to hold Blackwater accountable for his son's death.

Jan 28, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation

SOTU as National Rorschach Test SOTU as National Rorschach Test

A contemporary State of the Union address is less an assessment of our national circumstances than it is a collective Rorschach test: an inkblot given meaning by the viewer more th...

Jan 28, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry

Two Cheers for Obama on Foreign Affairs Two Cheers for Obama on Foreign Affairs

It was a pleasure to listen to a State of the Union address, especially after eight years of his predecessor's alarmist warnings and warlike thundering, in which war, terrorism, an...

Jan 28, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss

Howard Zinn speaks into a microphone during the 2009 Sundance Music Festival

Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History

Howard Zinn, who died in 2010 at the age of 87, did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States. 

Jan 28, 2010 / Dave Zirin

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