Books and Ideas

Howard Zinn

Zinn’s Critical History Zinn’s Critical History

Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s

Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 Howard Zinn, 1922-2010

Remembering the pragmatic radical.

Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Antonin Scalia

Scalia v. The World: On Antonin Scalia Scalia v. The World: On Antonin Scalia

Who is the purest archetype of the conservative legal movement, Antonin Scalia or John Roberts?

Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell

Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein

Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.

Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

Blackwater, Again Blackwater, Again

Secretive shmeering...

Feb 3, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Howard Zinn speaks into a microphone at the 2009 Sundance Music Festival on January 22, 2009 in Park City, Utah.

Remembering Howard Zinn Remembering Howard Zinn

Friends of The Nation and of Howard Zinn offer recollections of the man, his work, and his impact on thinkers and activists.

Feb 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

Back Talk: Terry Castle Back Talk: Terry Castle

A conversation with the author of The Professor about her affair with an older woman and the journals of Susan Sontag.

Jan 28, 2010 / Back Talk Conversations / Christine Smallwood

Under Siege: On Emma Williams Under Siege: On Emma Williams

A poignant memoir about life in the occupied territories during the second intifada.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Glass

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez

The novelist Dominique Fernandez struggles to understand his father's years as a Nazi collaborator.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan

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