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Cultural Criticism and Analysis
Cultural Criticism and Analysis news and analysis from The Nation
June 24, 2020
We talked to Wendy Lesser about her new book Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery and just why this regional genre continues to strike a chord.
June 2, 2020
Don’t blame the Boasians… Tilting at windmills… Dark recesses… The road already taken… Submerging the valley…
May 8, 2020
Matt Bors goes deeper than the day’s news by depicting the attitudes that underlie politics.
May 5, 2020
Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and their circle sought to show the fallacy of biological and physical difference, but they also created new forms of categorization that reinforced their underlying biases.
May 5, 2020
An exile who made the world his home, Said infused his literary style with a cosmopolitan ease and his political commitments with a cosmopolitan ethics.
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May 1, 2020
A classic horror movie reveals how authoritarianism and scapegoating flourish during a plague.
April 16, 2020
The genre that propelled Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat to stardom has been tainted by real-life police brutality during protests.
April 13, 2020
The pandemic is stress-testing two concepts Americans have historically gotten wrong.
February 10, 2020
And Bernie Sanders is the only candidate not clinging to it.
January 29, 2020
In a conversation with fellow true-crime writer Rachel Monroe, Eisenberg discusses the pitfalls and potential of the evolving genre.
