Luchita Hurtado’s Spiritual Modernism Luchita Hurtado’s Spiritual Modernism
Her paintings strove to convey the ways sublime experience could be found in nature and the body.
Aug 4, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Max Pearl
Sell This Book! Sell This Book!
Corporate publishing wants to turn all readers into renters. We’re trying to stop them.
Aug 3, 2021 / Column / Maria Bustillos
The Fiction of Meaningful Work The Fiction of Meaningful Work
Kikuko Tsumura’s new novel examines what unites jobs good or bad: the stories we tell ourselves to cope with how much toil sucks in the first place.
Aug 3, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Marie Solis
Welcome to Washington Square Park, Capital of Woke Bohemia Welcome to Washington Square Park, Capital of Woke Bohemia
A vibrant new youth scene is taking shape in Greenwich Village. Some people want to shut it down.
Jul 30, 2021 / Richard Goldstein
What Happened to Andrew Cuomo? What Happened to Andrew Cuomo?
Ross Barkan’s The Prince tracks how the son of a progressive New York governor transformed into one focused on one thing above all else: power.
Jul 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Raina Lipsitz
Milley Earns His Stars Milley Earns His Stars
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff prepared to thwart any coup attempt by Trump.—As reported by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker in I Alone Can Fix It A presidential coup! Di…
Jul 27, 2021 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Barry Jenkins’s American Saga Barry Jenkins’s American Saga
In The Underground Railroad, Jenkins focuses how people survived slavery rather than on its brutality.
Jul 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
Letters From the August 9/16, 2021, Issue Letters From the August 9/16, 2021, Issue
Calling Arizona… Black Main Street… Privileged information… The bronze ceiling (web only)…
Jul 27, 2021 / Our Readers and Erin L. Thompson
Where Would We Be Without the New Deal? Where Would We Be Without the New Deal?
A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.
Jul 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
The Rescue of the New York Public Library The Rescue of the New York Public Library
Activists—and The Nation—thwarted NYPL trustees’ harebrained plans and restored democracy to this vital public institution.
Jul 26, 2021 / Scott Sherman