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August 10, 2011
Shelf Life
On Reza Aslan’s Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.
Elias Muhanna
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October 6, 2009
Drunk and Disorderly
Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
Phoebe Connelly
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May 26, 2009
Chop Shops
Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.
Charles Taylor
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May 4, 2009
A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt: Things Fall Apart At Fifty
Published fifty years ago, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart mounted a literary rebellion against the everyday amalgamations and condescension that treat Africa as an undifferentiated wasteland.
Howard W. French
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March 31, 2009
Bridging It
With the help of a collector, Sonny Rollins has taken the curating of his career in a new direction.
K. Leander Williams
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The Nation is reader supported.
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March 2, 2009
In the Money
An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.
Charles Taylor
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February 17, 2009
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February 3, 2009
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January 20, 2009
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January 6, 2009
BookExpo 2012, Los Angeles
The hottest titles exorcise ghosts from our political past.
Will Heinrich