Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology
In his short story collection Exhalation, he builds social worlds where every character and object is deeply intertwined in history and in future possibility.
Nov 19, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
How Should We Remember the Puritans? How Should We Remember the Puritans?
In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.
Nov 18, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Delbanco
Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War
Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism.
Nov 18, 2019 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh
Liz Phair on Everyday ‘Horror Stories’ Liz Phair on Everyday ‘Horror Stories’
The Grammy-nominated musician speaks to The Nation about her new memoir.
Nov 14, 2019 / Dave Zirin
How Will Americans Remember Donald Trump? How Will Americans Remember Donald Trump?
If the past is prologue, Trump will face no historical reckoning for his sprawling malfeasance.
Nov 14, 2019 / Column / Aaron Ross Coleman
Carmen Maria Machado’s Genre-Bending Memoir Will Complicate Your Ideas of Queerness Carmen Maria Machado’s Genre-Bending Memoir Will Complicate Your Ideas of Queerness
In the Dream House provides a new blueprint for how to write about queer abuse.
Nov 14, 2019 / Christopher Gonzalez
Take the Country and Run Take the Country and Run
It doesn’t matter what’s on tape or how many whistleblowers come forward if Republicans insist on protecting their own
Nov 13, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
The Transformation of William Barr The Transformation of William Barr
His past, they said, was proof that he Would be a pretty straight AG. But, going down a different road, he Became Trump’s most corrupted toady. The words that he forgot are these:…
Nov 12, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
David Maraniss’s Tale of Hope and Misfortune in Postwar America David Maraniss’s Tale of Hope and Misfortune in Postwar America
In A Good American Family, the journalist and editor examines his father and mother’s youthful idealism and the bitter years of McCarthyism that followed.
Nov 12, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich