Infamy or Urn? Infamy or Urn?
How was Emily Dickinson able to be frugal and fruitful in her art?
Jan 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How We Helped Start the ‘Melville Revival’ of the 1920s This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How We Helped Start the ‘Melville Revival’ of the 1920s
An article in our pages in 1919 helped rescue the long-deceased scribe from obscurity and secured him a prominent place in the American canon.
Jan 4, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Guerrillero-Gentleman: On Joaquim Câmara Ferreira A Guerrillero-Gentleman: On Joaquim Câmara Ferreira
Was the author's aristocratic grandfather, who would become a leader of the armed resistance against Brazil’s military dictatorship, a hero or a terrorist?
Dec 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Carlos Fraenkel
Memory Politics: On ‘Franco’s Crypt’ Memory Politics: On ‘Franco’s Crypt’
To what extent does Franco’s rule still dictate contemporary Spanish culture?
Dec 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer
Shelf Life Shelf Life
In 1924, Lidia Ivanova, George Balanchine’s “lost muse,” disappeared on the eve of their company’s first European tour. Was her death an accident?
Dec 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Remembering André Schiffrin Remembering André Schiffrin
For decades, first at Pantheon and then at the New Press, he was a lion of progressive publishing.
Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
Who Didn’t Kill JFK? Who Didn’t Kill JFK?
Kennedy’s presidency and assassination seem more elusive as the decades pass.
Dec 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gage
Linda Tirado Is Not a Hoax Linda Tirado Is Not a Hoax
The author of "Why I Make Terrible Decisions" discovers the dark side of Internet fame.
Dec 11, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: 100 Years of Writing About Marcel Proust’s ‘Almost Wizard Power’ This Week in ‘Nation’ History: 100 Years of Writing About Marcel Proust’s ‘Almost Wizard Power’
Proust, a reviewer wrote in 1921, “may not be what his hero set out to be in his childhood, the greatest writer in the world, but he is one of those.”
Dec 7, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
Does John Gray counsel anything more than avoidance of the ideological excesses he scorns?
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Isaac Chotiner