Toward a New New Deal (Forum) Toward a New New Deal (Forum)

To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal, The Nation invited a panel of activists, writers, scholars and artists to reflect on its lasting lessons.

Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

The Experts Speak on Iraq The Experts Speak on Iraq

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.

Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf

Final Fantasy Final Fantasy

Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.

Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Waldstreicher

Tracing Slavery’s Past Tracing Slavery’s Past

On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.

Mar 14, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Te-Ping Chen

Un Lio Bestial Un Lio Bestial

In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.

Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander

Windows Into the Night Windows Into the Night

The collected nonfiction of Roberto Bolaño is a treasure trove filled with straw and dust, jewels and gold.

Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes

A Garden of Monsters A Garden of Monsters

The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.

Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa

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