A Captivating Mind A Captivating Mind
How Georgi Markov became the truth-teller of Bulgaria’s communist era, and paid for it with his life.
Mar 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Dimiter Kenarov
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Dave Eggers’s The Circle; Richard Powers’s Orfeo
Mar 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
In Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination In Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination
Thomas Piketty’s ambitious, lucid Capital in the Twenty-First Century explains the depth and scope of our inequality problem.
Mar 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Kathleen Geier
Rep. Keith Ellison—on His Faith, His Family & Our Future Rep. Keith Ellison—on His Faith, His Family & Our Future
The four-term congressman from Minnesota’s Fifth District is boldly following in the footsteps of Humphrey, McCarthy, Mondale and Wellstone.
Mar 10, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Resisting The Beatles’ Invasion, ‘The PR Man’s Finest Hour’ This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Resisting The Beatles’ Invasion, ‘The PR Man’s Finest Hour’
The quivering throngs of teen-aged girls, The Nation’s reviewer wrote, said much more about the susceptibility of Americans to fashionable trends than it did about the talent...
Mar 8, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dread and Wonder Dread and Wonder
The unflinching fiction of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
Mar 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Against the Grain Against the Grain
Elizabeth Fenn, the Mandans and a renaissance in historical writing.
Mar 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard White
Ball of Fire Ball of Fire
The life and unvarnished style of Barbara Stanwyck.
Mar 4, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The European Right—From (Jean-Marie) Le Pen to (Marine) Le Pen—and the Rise of the French Far Right This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The European Right—From (Jean-Marie) Le Pen to (Marine) Le Pen—and the Rise of the French Far Right
The underlying philosophy of the National Front remains almost exactly the same as it was under Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Mar 1, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
In ‘Goliath,’ the Past Is Always Present for Palestinians In ‘Goliath,’ the Past Is Always Present for Palestinians
The story of contemporary Israel as written by Max Blumenthal is not easy to read.
Feb 25, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Nadia Hijab