Ad Policy
Skip to content
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Donate
Log In
Podcasts
Books & The Arts
War in Ukraine
Climate Justice
Politics
World
Culture
Events
Shop
Jon Baskin
Current Issue
Newsletters
Subscribe
Search
Toggle Menu
fb
tw
mail
msg
wa
sms
Events
Politics
World
Climate
Activism
Culture
Podcasts
Shop
Subscribe
Current Issue
Newsletters
Donate
Log In
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Log In
Email *
Password *
Remember Me
Forgot Your Password?
Log In
New to
The Nation
?
Subscribe
Print subscriber?
Activate
your online access
Jon Baskin
Jon Baskin is a founding editor of
The Point.
Fiction
May 3, 2017
George Saunders’s Lincoln
The novel ‘
Lincoln in the Bardo’
examines the Civil War as the root of America’s violent past—and as a possible source of empathy that might release us from it.
Jon Baskin
Fiction
May 11, 2016
Don DeLillo’s American Dream
His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.
Jon Baskin
Fiction
October 8, 2015
Jonathan Franzen Withdraws
Why are the agonized liberals in
Purity
so skeptical of political conviction?
Jon Baskin
Fiction
February 11, 2015
Always Already Alienated
Ben Lerner and the novel of detachment.
Jon Baskin
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.
Sign up
x