The Man Who Knew Almost Everything The Man Who Knew Almost Everything
Inside the great social historian Eric Hobsbawm there was an aesthete waiting to come out.
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ramachandra Guha
Behind the Storm Behind the Storm
Was World War I the outcome of elite machinations?
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Tara Zahra
Roman Holidays Roman Holidays
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty; Alexander Sokurov’s Faust; Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Aftermath
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘The New Public’ on Poverty and Education ‘The New Public’ on Poverty and Education
The New Public offers a powerful look at poverty’s impact on education.
Nov 11, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Greg Kaufmann
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time
Was there more to JFK than a coiffure arranged by facing south in a strong east wind?
Nov 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Arthur Danto: A Critic With ‘a Beatific Sense of Wonder’ Arthur Danto: A Critic With ‘a Beatific Sense of Wonder’
If, in an age of mechanical reproduction, art had lost its aura, he restored that aura; he enchanted an unenchanted world.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda
Get Happy!! Get Happy!!
For Margaret Thatcher as for today’s happiness industry, there is no such thing as society.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears
The Seafarer The Seafarer
Stories of shipwreck and drift are Hollywood’s new allegories of national ruin.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Life and Times of Eric Hobsbawm This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Life and Times of Eric Hobsbawm
Ramachandra Guha’s essay in next week’s issue is only the latest in a long line of critical appreciations of the late historian’s work to be published in The Nati...
Nov 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel