Gray’s Anatomy Gray’s Anatomy
We live, it has been said, in a postideological age. Ideologically confused might be more like it.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Danny Postel
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
One of the nation's finest historians, Studs Terkel has told the story of twentieth-century America through the voices of ordinary people.
Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Not Beloved Not Beloved
Toni Morrison's slim new novel, Love, may seem, at first glance, to fit within a group of books one could crudely call Morrison Lite, not requiring any heavy lifting from the rea...
Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thulani Davis
Sacred Rage Sacred Rage
Since 9/11, terror has become one of the most fashionable issues on both the American and the international agenda, and almost every publisher has rushed to publish a book writte...
Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Baruch Kimmerling
The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’ The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’
Errol Morris: After you left the Johnson Administration, why didn't you speak out against the Vietnam War?
Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
In the Driftway In the Driftway
This essay, from the November 25, 1931, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published, c...
Nov 25, 2003 / Editorial / The Editors
Ears Wide Open Ears Wide Open
It's a cliché to say that an artist draws his power from his contradictions, but the lives of the great composers provide easy grist for the mill.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Platt
Growing Up All Wrong Growing Up All Wrong
Martin Amis is the most condescended-to novelist of his time. He is also one of the most literate, funny, quotable and (this the condescenders never neglect to mention) talente...
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen
Art Therapy Art Therapy
While filming in Western Australia in May 1999, the critic Robert Hughes survived--barely--a head-on collision with another car.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Mystic Poet Mystic Poet
Most biographies of literary figures are a wonderful substitute for actually having to read the work.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton