Ad Policy

May 31, 2010 Issue

Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels; Illustrations by Igor Kopelnitsky

purchase current issue

TO DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION Click Here

Download PDF of this issue


  • Books & the Arts


  • In Our Orbit: What Was Lost

    Kai Bird’s Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a meditation on the collective failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile their histories of loss and victimhood.

    Frederick Deknatel

  • The Enhancement of the Senses

    In The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes lucidly charts how the Romantics were as transfixed by the failures of science as they were by its bright accomplishments.

    Paula Findlen

  • Mind the Enlightenment

    Jonathan Israel’s epic defense of "Radical Enlightenment" has the dogmatic ring of a profession of faith.

    Samuel Moyn
  • The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

x