Between the Dead and the Living: Jack Spicer’s Second Life Between the Dead and the Living: Jack Spicer’s Second Life
A new collection of poems by Jack Spicer returns one of the great American visionaries to print.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered
In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff
Death at One’s Elbow: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels Death at One’s Elbow: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels
Margaret Thatcher is never named in Derek Raymond's Factory novels, but her shadow falls over them.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
The Prophet The Prophet
Howard Dean's fifty-state strategy remade the Democratic Party. What comes next?
Dec 17, 2008 / Feature / Ari Berman
Body of Evidence Body of Evidence
Did New Orleans police play a role in the grisly death of Henry Glover?
Dec 17, 2008 / Feature / A.C. Thompson
Katrina’s Hidden Race War Katrina’s Hidden Race War
White vigilante justice tore through New Orleans after the storm. But no official investigation has shed light on the violence.
Dec 17, 2008 / Feature / A.C. Thompson
True Leadership True Leadership
This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the best presidents are humble, open to new options and eager to learn.
Ending Student Debt Ending Student Debt
This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the new president needs to take definitive action toward eliminating student debt.
Dec 17, 2008 / Feature / Sean Dennison
Bernard Madoff, Trust-Buster Bernard Madoff, Trust-Buster
The $50 billion fraud is bad enough. But the disgraced trader has done even more serious damage. He's destroyed trust in our financial system.
Dec 17, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Letters Letters
Postcard From Nebraska
Dannebrog, Neb.
Dec 17, 2008 / Our Readers and William Deresiewicz