Rambling Man Rambling Man
A modern-day Rip Van Winkle challenges the view that Europeans are too wrapped up in their past to move on.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
Weather Reports Weather Reports
The radical individualism of the New Left was hardly un-American. A batch of new memoirs show the Weatherman followed a distinctly American tradition.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Maurice Isserman
A Test of Poetry A Test of Poetry
More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
Is Bill Out of Control? Is Bill Out of Control?
Katrina vanden Heuvel debates the role of former President Clinton and the primary results from Nevada on Sunday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos roundtable.
Jan 23, 2008 / Books & the Arts / The Nation Video
Chalmers Johnson: America’s Going Bankrupt Chalmers Johnson: America’s Going Bankrupt
From Tom Dispatch: The current economic crisis is caused by policies that tax the richest Americans at strikingly low levels and spend huge sums on defense projects that have no ...
Jan 23, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Chalmers Johnson
A Conversation with Taylor Branch A Conversation with Taylor Branch
MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.
Jan 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Wallace
Bella’s Way Bella’s Way
They just don't make women politicians like Bella Abzug anymore.
Jan 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Nona Willis Aronowitz
L.A. L.A.
Politically speaking
look at this
a word at a time
on my knee
looking forward to a picnic
with my friends
in the afternoon
in their car
Jan 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Eileen Myles
On the Books On the Books
A "rogue sociologist" gains unprecedented insight on the day-to-day workings of a Chicago gang.
Jan 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ted Conover
Little Ships of Horror Little Ships of Horror
Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.
Jan 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Leslie Brown