Ad Policy

April 30, 2007 Issue

Cover art by: Cover design: Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

purchase current issue

TO DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION Click Here

Download PDF of this issue


  • Books & the Arts

    Humboldt’s Gift

    The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century’s greatest scientists.

    Mark M. Anderson

  • Mission Impossible

    Three Empires on the Nile, a lively retelling of Britain’s colonial exploits in Africa, conjures up images of wild-eyed Arabs waging jihad in the desert.

    Maya Jasanoff

  • Inevitable Revolutions

    In William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal, the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India is recast as a cross-border friendship gone sour.

    Gyan Prakash
  • The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

x