Imitation of Life Imitation of Life
To return to Chekhov in this cultural moment makes you feel as if you were experiencing spring in Russia.
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
Patriot Acts Patriot Acts
In September 1950, four months into the Korean War, Congress passed the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), known as the McCarran Act, after its sponsor, the Nevada Democratic...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mike Marqusee
Lost in America Lost in America
In no literature in the world has the immigrant novel been more varied, more original, more persistent than in ours--and this for the most obvious of reasons.
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Pop and Circumstance Pop and Circumstance
You may recall the to-do occasioned two winters past by a certain shift in the mise-en-scène at the United Nations.
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
An Appetite for Liebling An Appetite for Liebling
If we had four or five Abbott Joseph Lieblings in Iraq and Washington, it might be a different war, one in which those hugely amiable, observant and amusable souls could bring us...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson
Prisoner of Love Prisoner of Love
I was introduced to Bernard-Henri Lévy this spring at a stop on his latest book tour. It was a few minutes before he was due to face the audience.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
Suspension of Disbelief Suspension of Disbelief
Ask Americans to enumerate their civil liberties and they instinctively turn to freedom of speech and the press.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The tasks of poetry have never been more important or more difficult than they are now.
Nov 11, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Hillman
Masters of Their Universe Masters of Their Universe
Beginning in the fifteenth century, Africa, Europe and the Americas came together in the Atlantic to create new economies, new cultures and new societies.
Nov 11, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ira Berlin
After the Fall After the Fall
This article, from the November, 17 1984, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published ...
Nov 10, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors