Learning From Mexico Learning From Mexico
Richard Rodriguez’s vision of racial mixing as New World destiny.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook
Survivalpop Survivalpop
The desperate situation of country’s popularity.
Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Song and Dance Song and Dance
Why a production of Prince Igor was a missed opportunity to call a truce between opera and dance.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
The Brand Is My Business The Brand Is My Business
The only mystery about The Black-Eyed Blonde is when publishing derivative works became original.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Weinman
Money / Talks Money / Talks
O that common verb. Dress me in spatulas put the moon around my neck. Parting air the poet waves a hand, too much lace and I wonder if the trolley’s real, a giant upside-down flying spoon. God and hair I knew you in the Mechanical Age. Now I am someone who gets off and on trains with dads and bags everyday. Look, it’s 4:43 in the afternoon people go home. My mother wore Obsession in the eighties. I smell fire which has no hands, did you hear me? I have no horses now. Someone did not make your sweater, someone didn’t make it who loves you.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Nadelberg
In Our Orbit: Dream and Wit In Our Orbit: Dream and Wit
E.L. Doctorow’s Andrew’s Brain
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Sculpting With Color Sculpting With Color
Ed Clark and Lynda Benglis are still making art on a grand scale.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Gabriel García Márquez—a Rebel Against Form, an Artist Against the Forces of Oblivion Gabriel García Márquez—a Rebel Against Form, an Artist Against the Forces of Oblivion
He taught us how to live with loss, and he told us, over and over again, that other utopias are possible.
Apr 21, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Thomas Piketty Undermines the Hallowed Tenets of the Capitalist Catechism Thomas Piketty Undermines the Hallowed Tenets of the Capitalist Catechism
Not only does capitalist growth not reduce inequality; it increases it.
Apr 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Faux
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Here’s the Backstory on Marx and Marxism in Our Pages This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Here’s the Backstory on Marx and Marxism in Our Pages
The substance and tone of Nation articles on Marxism have tended to shift with the larger political, cultural and economic tides.
Apr 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel